108 Common Core Quotes

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Famous Common Core Quotes

My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core! — Louis C. K.

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science. — Kenny Marchant

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. — Bob Beauprez

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. — Harvey Cushing

That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one. — Pedro Noguera

Let the questions be the curriculum. — Socrates

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior. — Douglas McGregor

All standards are double standards. — Tucker Carlson

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure. — Lisa Delpit

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. — Phyllis Schlafly

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods. — Neil Postman

Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn. — Seymour Papert

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

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. — Erich Fromm

Instead of a blank canvas, school hands kids a coloring book and tells them to stay within the lines. — Tim Urban

Short Common Core Quotes

• The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. — Diogenes
• Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience — Lilian Katz
• Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic! — Frank Van Dun
• A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. — Isabel Paterson
• The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate. — Thomas Jefferson
• It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible. — Desmond Tutu
• To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
• Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence. — Jerome Bruner

Common Core Image Quotes

Core Quotes

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery — Karl Marx

Shiva and Shakti are indistinguishable. They are one. They are the universe. Shiva isn't masculine. Shakti isn't feminine. At the core of their mutual penetration the supreme consciousness opens. — Daniel Odier

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core. — Maria Montessori

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family! — T. D. Jakes

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists. — Nikola Tesla

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless

Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core. — James E. Faust

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings! — Paul Laurence Dunbar

Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being. — Farid al-Din Attar

Some Common Quotes

In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life in a part are created, the inner and the outer. They are intertwined. A common purpose brings them together and reinforces the unbreakable bond. — Constantin Stanislavski

Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement. — Pete Edochie

...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work. — William Graham Sumner

There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate. — Todor Zhivkov

A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point. — Sean Bean

Everyone has played video games at some point these days, and video games are fun. — PewDiePie

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? — Walter Dean Myers

A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting; more often it is some common, familiar, and despised weed that is discovered to have undreamed-of virtues. — Euell Gibbons

We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection. — Pope John Paul II

Love You To The Core Quotes

Love first has to happen in the deepest core of your being. It is the quality of being alone, happily alone, joyously alone. It is the quality of being of no mind, of being silent. Contentless consciousness is the space, the context, in which love arises in you. — Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]

Everybody needs love. There are a lot of guys that you think are hard-core gangsters, but all these guys' weaknesses are women. Look at the movie Scarface. At the end of the day, all he wanted to do was to have kids with his woman. — Master P

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality — Viktor E. Frankl

I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here. — Donald Berwick

If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we'd be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today - not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you. — Bill Hybels

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display. — Anna Quindlen

There's homophobia in every corner and pocket of this world but at the core you just love someone and want to make mixed tapes for them. — Sara Quin

When deep down in the core of your being you believe that your soulmate exists, there is no limit to the ways he or she can enter your life. — Arielle Ford

If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left? If music is your inspiration and it brings you together with friends, family or loved ones and that's the core of it, then always have it. Always draw from it. — Charlie Benante

Christianity is the gayest religion, you know. Its core commandment to men is to form a deep lifelong partnership with ANOTHER MAN. It demands real man-on-man, man-on-Jesus love action, no holds barred. It's the most homophilic religion in the universe. — Joe

Core Values Quotes

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism. — Robert Kiyosaki

The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing. — Michael Jordan

I don't think you can create culture and develop core values during great times. — Jensen Huang

There are three values: Feel good, be good and do good. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

The secret to achieving inner peace lies in understanding our inner core values – those things in our lives that are most important to us – and then seeing that they are reflected in the daily events of our lives. — Hyrum W. Smith

I salute every individual who honours the core values of peace and help in one way or another to make a difference. — Widad Akrawi

Every culture, or subculture, is defined by a set of common values, that is, generally agreed upon preferences. Without a core of common values a culture cannot exist, and we classify society into cultures and subcultures precisely because it is possible to identify groups who have common values. — Kenneth E. Boulding

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator. — Seth Klarman

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies. — Jon Stewart

We must put behind us the tribalism and divisions seen in the referendum between Leave and Remain and focus on defining our place in the world, healing our wonderful nation and putting core Conservative principles and values into action. — Priti Patel

People Writing About Common Core

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Kenny Marchant quotes on leadership, education and success	19	124
Bob Beauprez	10	95
Pedro Noguera quotes on education, leadership and love	15	197
Socrates quotes on love, life and education	449	10345
Douglas McGregor	9	272

More Common Core Quotes

It is rare in a working environment that someone says, ‘Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday, but before that, I need a compelling account of your childhood.' — David Coleman

So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the result of Common Core? And it's not. It's not. Common Core does not deal with social studies. It's basically writing and math. — Megyn Kelly

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences. — James Bryant Conant

The inner cities, education is almost worthless, it's horrible. We're going to have Common Core ended. — Donald Trump

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit. — Lawrence Lessig

I think Common Core is a disaster. That doesn't mean there can't be a little tentacle left of the Department of Education, like 5 percent, just in terms of local coordination, perhaps. — Donald Trump

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream! — Tim Pawlenty

Common Core is a big win for education. — Bill Gates

A lot of Republican candidate will tell you they'll protect innocent human life and they'll hunt down ISIS and get rid of Common Core, but we're actually doing things in our state. We need a doer, not a talker. — Bobby Jindal

There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability. — Anya Kamenetz

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking." — David Harsanyi

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends. — Roger Scruton

True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism. — Henry David Thoreau

Donald Trump hates the Common Core, created by governors and state education commissioners, and initially adopted by 45 states. [Betsy] DeVos has actually supported the Common Core until now. — Claudio Sanchez

Although yoga is commonly portrayed as a popular fitness trend, it's actually the core of the Vedic science that developed in the Indus Valley more than 5,000 years ago. — Deepak Chopra

I'm not cutting services. But I'm cutting spending. But I may cut Department of Education. I believe common core is a very bad thing. I believe that we should be lo - you know, educating our children from Iowa, from New Hampshire, from South Carolina, from California, from New York. I think that it should be local education. — Donald Trump

Every Republican will tell you they are for school choice, shrinking government, cutting the government workforce and getting rid of Common Core. But talk is cheap. Talk is just talk. I haven't just talked about these things. I've actually done these things. — Bobby Jindal

State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is an important step towards maintaining our country s competitive edge. With a skilled and prepared workforce, the business community will be better prepared to face the challenges of the international marketplace. — Edward B. Rust, Jr.

Shortly after her nomination was announced,[Betsy] DeVos tweeted, almost as if she had forgotten something important to say. And she said, I am not a supporter of the Common Core. Sandy Kress predicts that debate will die down soon enough. — Claudio Sanchez

We're going to end Common Core. Going to bring our education local. — Donald Trump

You have got to have two things in education reform. You have got to have some flexibility, so people can figure out what to do. But you also have to have accountable, basically what the Common Core standards were, some sort of set of national standards, so we can measure. — David Brooks

I want to get rid of Common Core. — Donald Trump

I am going to provide school choice and put an end to common core and bring our education local. — Donald Trump

All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive. — James W. Loewen

Based on my own experiences, I made sure, and I'm proud of this, that the Common Core curriculum is hard on plagiarizers. — Joe Biden

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level. — Donald Trump

Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey. — Chris Christie

We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the Common Core. But the American education system historically has not embraced intellectual seriousness. — Dana Goldstein

I do not support Common Core because there is absolutely no evidence that a big, centralized bureaucracy makes anything better. In fact, there is a lot of evidence to the contrary. — Carly Fiorina

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms. — Jeb Bush

A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration. — Jeb Bush

We all are big believers in the notion that as a species we are better together than we are apart, that the common core of our shared humanity is stronger than that which seeks to marginalize us and factualize us and turn us against each other. — J. Michael Straczynski

There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core. — Randy Hultgren

It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had higher standards than Common Core, so it was a very easy decision for Texans, myself and the legislature included, to basically say we still believe that Texans know how to best run Texas. — Rick Perry

The Obama administration has abused the executive power, enforcing Common Core on the states. It has used race to the top fans to effectively blackmail and force the states to adapt Common Core. But in one silver lining of Obama abusing executive power is that everything done with executive power can be undone with executive power and I intend to do that. — Ted Cruz

My hope is the Trump administration will approach Russia strategically, with a clear purpose of trying to find more common ground, but without giving up on fundamental values and principles that are at the core of the United States' foreign policy. — John F. Kerry

Common decency is a core part of who people are. — E. J. Dionne

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone. I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa. — Bashar al-Assad

I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world. — Eve Ensler

I think we'll have a bigger conversation first within the Republican Party, then with the American people about what's the proper role of the federal government, i do hope that Common Core will be one more, one more reason for us to have this bigger debate, this bigger conversation about the proper role of the federal government in local education. — Bobby Jindal

The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

The core of ethics runs deep in our species and is common to human beings everywhere. It survives the most appalling hardships and the most ruthless attempts to deprive human beings of their humanity. Nevertheless, some people resist the idea that his core has a biological basis which we have inherited from our pre-human ancestors. — Peter Singer

People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is the sauce to pull out the inspirations out of me that touch the core of people's hearts, which is usually wandering about deep inside of you unconsciously covered with the social taboo called 'common sense'. — Hiroko Sakai

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