Alfie Kohn Quotes
When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.
Alfie Kohn
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Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
Randi Weingarten
I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
Jack Henry Abbott
I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
Oliver Platt
If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
Gary Hume
If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
Lance Ito
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
Sallust
I hope so. We've got a measure in front of us that we have to step up to and try to regain some kind of composure and some kind of home-court advantage.
Phil Jackson
Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
Douglas Jerrold
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
Virginia Woolf
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
Isaac Newton
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
Baruch Spinoza
If we are ever to cross the 100-nano barrier in electronics, we need to develop nano structures that let electrons move through, as they do through wires and semiconductors. And these structures must survive in the real world of air, water, boiling temperatures.
Richard Smalley
People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
Norman Vincent Peale
From me growing up with a large family and everybody singing around the Christmas tree, it was a wonderful, wonderful upbringing.
Engelbert Humperdinck
When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.
Alfie Kohn
