Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

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• Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Democracy
  • Year
  • Inequality

• I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Home
  • Weird
  • Moment

• Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.

  

  Hal Stratton
  • Today
  • Year
  • Back

• Bullfights are a very cultural thing. I know many people think it's cruel, but so many things are cruel. Hunting, the electric chair, wars. These are all cruel things as well.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Think
  • Hunting

• We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • American
  • Everyone
  • Greatest

• For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Women
  • Struggle

• We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Color
  • End
  • Race

• I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Influence
  • Writer
  • Dangerous

• If there's nothing in here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

  

  Carl Sagan

• You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Good
  • Truth

• For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Lies

• 'There is no God,' cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values - is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • God

• Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Reading
  • Road
  • Ignorance

• …British louts with guitars and emetic little songs…infantile screamers…

  

  Anthony Burgess

• The pictures, with their ruddy light, Are changed to dust and ashes white, And I am left alone with night.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Night
  • Light
  • Alone

• Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Education

• Christmas is always a great time because I get to be around family and spend time with my brother, nieces, and nephews, so that's what I plan to do. It's great to disconnect from everything.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Time
  • Great
  • Family

• Social media is so influential now.

  

  Rita Ora

• Singapore's not a very big country. They speak with one voice, and they have a clear idea of what their regulatory environment should look like.

  

  Karl Iagnemma
  • Country
  • Environment

• The politician may change sides so frequently as to find himself always in the majority, but most politicians have a preference for one party to the other, and subordinate their love of power to this preference.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May
  • Power
  • Party

• When Dr. Stern wanted to know whether I was an alcoholic, when Dwight Macdonald asked me seriously whether I drank longshoremen under the table - I can only confess that yes, I did 'fling roses with the throng.'

  

  Dorothy Day

• I instruct you to be the obeyer, A rhythm recipe that you'll savor, Doesn't matter if you're minor or major, Yes, the Tribe of the game, rhythm player, As you inhale like a breath of fresh air

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Player
  • Air
  • Matter

• In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

  

  Carol Ann Tomlinson