Education Quote by Noam Chomsky

When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may say……

— Myron Tribus

Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line.

— Raheem Jarbo

I am asking teachers to understand that we must make the education relevant for the children. If they're only working for the tests or…

— Rafe Esquith

And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the…

— Craig Benson

“Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student to her…

— Jay Parini

I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

The biggest dilemma in education today is the differing visions of what an educated person means. To do well on tests is often more…

— Linda Lantieri

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

— Gilbert Highet

It's concerning to me when people look at the course of education as just a means for getting a job four years later. If…

— Daniel H. Pink

The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

— Peter McWilliams

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

— Maria Montessori

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

— Confucius