Top 20 School Improvement Quotes
#1. It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.
Adam Fletcher
#2. We are working so hard in this country on the details of school improvement that we don't always stop to consider the big picture - if we are actually working on the right things.
David Perkins
#3. School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.
Michael J. Schmoker
#4. Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.
Thomas Sowell
#5. I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.
David Eagleman
#6. Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.
Jenni Rivera
#7. I sent letters to the families of every service member who laid down his or her life in the war on terror. By the end of my presidency, I had written to almost five thousand families.
George W. Bush
#8. A happy Atlas was near mind-blowing. It made me want to uncover every single thing about this world that he likes and give it all to him.
Colleen Hoover
#9. There was so much talk about the movie and we thought, "Wouldn't it be great to still do the movie, but to give everybody this thing they didn't see coming?" Even with the number of episodes, it was reported that there was going to be 10 episodes, and then there was talk about adding more.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#11. Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.
George H. W. Bush
#12. It's a lot easier to opine from the sidelines.
Dee Dee Myers
#13. And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.
Margaret Spellings
#14. You hear what the dean said about Jesus Christ? 'Sure He's a good teacher, but what's He published?
Wallace Stegner
#15. Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.
Ludwig Von Mises
#16. Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?
David Mamet
#17. Logically, you should go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a good degree, go into the workplace, then work hard and be happy.
The only problem is that happiness isn't logical.
A.C. Ping
#18. Employees want to believe their company has a meaningful purpose. They want to know that their own job is worthwhile. They want to make a difference. If all three of these conditions are accomplished, bottom line results will follow.
Quint Studer
#19. For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.
Ernest Cline
#20. I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other.
Edward W. Said
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