Certain Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

— Joe Whitney

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in…

— Anton Chekhov

“The story of declining school quality across the twentieth century is, for the most part, a fable,” says social scientist Richard Rothstein, whose book…

— Alfie Kohn

The impact of poverty on our kids and their learning. That's something I've understood pretty intimately throughout my career as an educator.

— Jamaal Bowman

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

— Bill Bryson

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it…

— Lisa Delpit

The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.

— Theodore Roethke

One key factor in the downward spiral in our educational system is that there is too much stroking and too little real feedback.

— Randy Pausch

“No Child Left Behind has diminished [teachers'] sense of control of their own classroom, narrowed the focus of their jobs, and stifled pedagogical innovation.”

— James M. Lang

When it comes to the education of our children... failure is not an option.

— George W. Bush

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

— Susan Sontag

“Unfortunately, too many of our schools depend on inexperienced teachers with little training in the subjects they're teaching, and too often those teachers are…

— Barack Obama