Community Quote by Howard Gardner

“Nations such as Finland, Canada, Japan, and South Korea spend time and resources improving the skills of their teachers, not selectively firing them in…

— Diane Ravitch

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free.…

— Noam Chomsky

Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single…

— David Puttnam

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of…

— Anonymous

In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world.

— Prince Andrew

The people who run the international tests told us, "the biggest predictor of student success is choice." Nations that "attach the money to the…

— John Stossel

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

— John Philip Sousa

The vast majority of our teachers, our principals and our PTAs are well informed and well meaning, but even those with the best intentions…

— Letitia James

Countries like Japan do not have to change their cultures to address their educational shortcomings; they simply have to adjust their policies and practices.

— Jose Angel Gurria

I grew up in Denmark and was fortunate enough to have access to good schools and thoughtful teachers.

— Nina Agdal

Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.

— Sri Aurobindo

“Other countries whose educational systems achieve more than ours often do so in part by attempting less. While school children in Japan are learning…

— Thomas Sowell