#student

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. ↗

— William Glasser

#connecting #education #eliminating #improve #schooling

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help. ↗

— William Glasser

#ask #being #book #books #closed

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy. ↗

— William Glasser

#even #good #grade #help #help others

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. ↗

— William Glasser

#intellectual #lack #relationship #school #students

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#hip-hop #i #look #me #myself

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#know #mark #mark twain #students #test

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#employment #entertainment #exist #ideas #knowledge

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#charter #charter schools #florida #gained #improved

Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#california #college #grossly #high #high school

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#end #hopkins #ideal #log #mark