Darling Hammond Quotes

#1. Love your enemies but deal with them shrewdly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. Life doesn't come with four choices.

Linda Darling-Hammond

#3. I did not reach Thee But my feet slip nearer every day Three Rivers and a Hill to cross One Desert and a Sea I shall not count the journey one When I am telling thee.

Ally Condie

#4. You're the reason I get up in the morning. That, and I need to pee. - E-CARD

Darynda Jones

#5. The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#6. A democratic education means that we educate people in a way that ensures they can think independently, that they can use information, knowledge, and technology, among other things, to draw their own conclusions.

Linda Darling-Hammond

#7. But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out

Alice Sebold

#8. The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.

Karen Maitland

#9. If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

Linda Darling-Hammond

#10. We can't fire our way to Finland.

Linda Darling-Hammond

#11. Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.

Seneca The Younger

#12. In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools that are developing these skills.

Linda Darling-Hammond

#13. Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.

Linda Darling-Hammond