L. Todd Rose Quotes

Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic standpoint, is we're not producing the talent we need.

L. Todd Rose

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• Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Look

• Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Different
  • Same

• I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
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• I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.

  

  Washed Out
  • Done
  • Want
  • Past

• I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Kids
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• The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Life
  • Man
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• A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Family
  • Death
  • Couple

• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Technology

• When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Same
  • Equal
  • Soil

• In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Going
  • Hungry
  • Over

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Take

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • German
  • National
  • Titles

• If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Way
  • New

• Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Jesus
  • Meaning
  • Example

• The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how much time, how much blood, and what damage to NATO.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Time
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  • Question

• I focused my life on things that are a little more dependable, like my family and things that actually make me happy, rather than momentary flashes of success or anything like that.

  

  Adam Scott
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• One of the things I wanted to do with my own books was bridge the gap between 'Goosebumps' and adult horror.

  

  Darren Shan
  • Bridge

• If done correctly, dynamic scoring will provide a more complete picture of Congress's actions. This is exactly the type of modeling the private sector uses, and advances in data collection and analysis create an opportunity for it to be employed accurately.

  

  John Delaney
  • Done
  • Opportunity
  • Picture

• I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes.

  

  John Curran
  • People
  • Family
  • Kids

• Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic standpoint, is we're not producing the talent we need.

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • Kids
  • Education
  • Selfish