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.
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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.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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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.
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If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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To measure the man, measure his heart.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
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You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
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Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
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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.
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The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
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We were feeling desperate, We started writing songs; Question Mark would record everything we practiced. I came up with some chords, and Question Mark started singing Too Many Teardrops.
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.
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When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
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When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
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Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.
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Acting was always something I pursued by myself. When we were in college, I took an acting class that I was so passionate about and devoted to, but I went to it privately and never really spoke about it. I'd have these ecstatic experiences in, like, a church basement and then never talk about it with other people.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
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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.
