#schools

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#coins #conclusion #courageous #fertile #guess

It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation. ↗

— Gaston Caperton

#hope #increasing #maintained #our #participation

Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service. ↗

— Susan Collins

#among #career #children #experience #experiences

All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove. ↗

— Evan Davis

#attached #baggage #bred #case #category

I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all. ↗

— Frank Dobson

#am #believe #better #better off #denominational

So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#always #because #believed #getting #i

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#attitude #become #can-do #disenchanted #example

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#anything #back #certain #could #education

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out. ↗

— Jared Harris

#awful #been #boarding #boring #england

There is always frustration from people who work in schools that things keep changing but it is an unfortunate truth with the world of work changing as rapidly as it is, we do have to change. ↗

— Jim Knight

#change #changing #frustration #keep #people