Education

The flaw in the educational system, as far as I see it, is that you live your life - teachers and students - in the quest of As. Yet later in life, the A is irrelevant. - Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

What are you going to learn? How are you going to learn it? How are you going to show me your learning? - Shelley Wright on students owning their learning

This is a test of lower order thinking for the lower orders. - Frederick J. Kelly, the inventor of multiple choice tests, commenting on them.

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence. - Maria Montessori

If it's not worth teaching, it's not worth teaching well. - Elliot Eisner

What are you going to learn? How are you going to learn it? How are you going to show me your learning? - Shelley Wright on students owning their learning

"Our view is, by the way, that if you can't make a school a great professional place for its staff, it's never going to be a great place for kids" (Brandt, 1992, p. 21, quoting Hank Levin)