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
Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test. — Alfie Kohn
The high stakes test culture runs almost totally counter to what we know about how people learn. It causes us to engage in professional malpractice on a regular basis. — Carol Ann Tomlinson
My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core! — Louis C. K.
Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds. — Diane Ravitch
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
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
I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition. — Suzanne Farrell
I'm in favour of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice. — Kurt Rambis
Most players don't mind drug testing once they realize they don't have to study for it. — Mack Brown
The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection. — Paul Popenoe
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
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry? — Noam Chomsky
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. — Maria Montessori
Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior. — Douglas McGregor
Ability is not always gauged by examination. — Indira Gandhi
Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action. — Joseph M. Juran
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. — Isabel Paterson
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized. — Alex Grey
To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
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Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.
Positive Quotes
I learned that everybody is not your friend. You have to watch who you associate with and surround yourself with positive things and people who want to do something positive. — Gucci Mane
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. — Bob Marley
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. — Booker T. Washington
If you want to test a man’s character give him power.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me." — Layne Beachley
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. — Michelle Obama
LIfe has a way of testing a persons will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.
I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be. — Meek Mill
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. — Kevin Gates
Our whole life is solving puzzles.
No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. — Meek Mill
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill
The difference between school and life? In school, you're thought a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio Cusinati — Maria Callas
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
Life consists of two days:
one for you and one against you, so when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Life consists of two days, one for you and one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud of reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.
Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times. — Thabo Mbeki
Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials. — Smith Wigglesworth
Life has a way of testing a persons will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life is like a confused teacher...first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson — Drake
The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart. — Bill Bowerman
The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being. — Pope John Paul II
Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test. — Charlotte Mason
Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered. — Alfie Kohn
Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test. — Henry Giroux
Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know. — Michelle Rhee
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that. — Michelle Obama
Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny. — Jimmy Carter
Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole. — Alfie Kohn
Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us. — Sam Smith
The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them. — Paul Feyerabend
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. — Sally Ride
We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs. — Robert Reich
The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve. — Simon Sinek
My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I have heard it said that the success of a work abroad is the best test of its enduring value. I doubt whether this is at all trustworthy; but judged by this standard my name ought to last for a few years. — Charles Darwin
The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills. — Virginia Postrel
How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard. — Willard Van Orman Quine
First follow Nature, and your judgment frame
By her just standard, which is still the same:
Unerring nature, still divinely bright,
One clear, unchanged, and universal light,
Life, force, and beauty must to all impart,
At once the source, and end, and test of art. — Alexander Pope
I think the gold standard is a clinical diagnosis, that an astute clinician interacting with a child, interviewing the parents, talking with teachers makes the diagnosis based on some standard tests and also on clinical impression and skill. — Gerald Fischbach
We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy. — Tom Peters
If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything. — Brene Brown
I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the other category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly. — Jordan Peele
The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn a logical way to start a story, whereas in creative writing you may begin at the end or begin at the middle of the story. — Alejandro Zambra
Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making. — Richard Louv
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the communitys standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they dont like, provided the matter relates to sexual impurity or has a tendency to excite lustful thoughts. This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win. — William O. Douglas
The persistence of housing discrimination and housing segregation makes it difficult at times to integrate schools. So what flows from that is disappointment and cynicism and the search for what's next. And it's really in the search for what's next after that that we come upon ideas like increasing standardized testing for kids and using those tests scores to hold teachers accountable. — Dana Goldstein
I have an absolutely unshakable faith in kids, grounded in the fact that I worked for three years in one of the worst public schools in Baltimore, with kids most people would write off because of their backgrounds. But, when I set high expectations, at the end of the day, these kids went from scoring at the bottom on standardized tests, to scoring at the top, despite their unfortunate circumstances. — Michelle Rhee
The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by standardized testing. — Nat Hentoff
Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT stressing standardized test scores. — Raheem Jarbo
The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are these tests that have been written by multiple people. — Alejandro Zambra
In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it. — Diane Ravitch
Major league baseball players and owners should meet immediately to enact the standards that apply to the minor leagues, and if they don't, I will have to introduce legislation that says professional sports will have minimum standards for testing. I'll give them until January, and then I'll introduce legislation. — John McCain
A biblical standard of sexuality is not merely a test of evangelical consistency. It is a test of evangelical authenticity and integrity. — Albert Mohler
Standardised tests cannot capture all, but on the other hand, students who are not capable of doing well on standardised tests are not well-equipped to thrive in today's world and so it's important for teachers to ensure that students gain the foundation necessary to meet the baseline educational standards these tests represent. — Wendy Kopp
The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians — Ray Bradbury
Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A man's inner nature is revealed by what he praises-a man is self-judged by what he says of others. Thus a man is judged by his standards, by what he considers the best. And you can't find a more crucial test. It reveals the soul. — Hugh Black
In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another. — Odell Shepard
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus. — Amity Shlaes
I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that. — Ashley Rickards
You must test your own religious claims and texts by the same standards you apply to other religions. If your religion's claims and texts fair no better, then your religion is just as false as theirs is. — Sayings
Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility. — Wayne Dyer
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