Top 18 Quotes About Achievement Tests: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Achievement Tests

#1. The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.

James Heckman

#2. We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.

Roger Von Oech

#3. Authors write, readers read, money talks.

Toba Beta

#4. It was indeed a gift to have someone to love.

Jojo Moyes

#5. Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

Daniel Quinn

#6. Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

Carol S. Dweck

#7. I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone.

Dom DeLuise

#8. Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do.

Price Pritchett

#9. When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#10. You will not disparage yourself in my presence. Not ever.

Elizabeth SaFleur

#11. Life isn't about what you can see, it's about what you know and believe.

Elijah G. Clark

#12. What was excitement when he was wakeful melted into dread when he was tired.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

J.G. Holland