Triangle The Fire That Changed America Quotes

#1. Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

William Gurnall

#2. Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

Diane Ravitch

#3. Measurements is your saving grace if you want to raise steam.

Terry Pratchett

#4. I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let me avoid the tenure race and full-time teaching.

Garth Greenwell

#5. The unending problem of growing old was not how he changed, but how things did.

Toni Morrison

#6. I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

Jonathan Lethem

#7. Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.

Robert Kegan

#8. (Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and - oh - tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair.

Charlaine Harris