Quote by Cynthia D. Urbanski

“It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to measure up was paralysing. It was never…

— Eudora Welty

“He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I thought about the hours we spent practicing increasingly complex math problems. He taught me that lack of knowledge and lack of intelligence were…

— J.D. Vance

“...none of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them: education in…

— Richard Dawkins

“He was the test I hadn’t studied for, the quiz I was bound to fail. Out of my depth.”

— Maria V. Snyder

“But it was possible to teach what one could not practice.”

— Mary Balogh

“What did the TEACHER tell the students ? PASS THE EXAMS WITHOUT FAIL.”

— shaikh mustafa

“For someone bent on achievement, education is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible.”

— Daniel Quinn

“that had little to do with the real world. I felt like school, and this way of learning—cramming random knowledge into my head and…

— Kevin Hart

“At least when he was at Aglionby he could turn over his papers to see the grades, concrete proof of his success at something.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Everything was a test. Or a lesson. Or a punishment from which he was supposed to learn a lesson, on which he would be…

— Orson Scott Card