Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated. — Major Owens
Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up. — Carol S. Dweck
The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement. — James S. Coleman
The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher. — Harry Wong
It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement. — Harry Wong
Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning. — Alfie Kohn
All achievement should be measured in human happiness. — Walter Lippmann
The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education. — E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. — Jack Nicklaus
Achievement results from work realizing ambition. — Adam Ant
Education is not received. It is achieved. — Unknown
Education is not received. It is achieved. — Albert Einstein
Every student has the ability to be a successful learner. — Warren G. Harding
To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally. — Eric Williams
Short Student Achievement Quotes
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. — Jack Kinder
Grades won't matter much, but energy for learning will. — Sahil Bloom
Academic success depends on research and publications. — Philip Zimbardo
The value of achievement lies in the achieving. — Albert Einstein
To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher. — John Strachan
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. — Maria Montessori
Student Achievement Image Quotes
The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.
Inspirational Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
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
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. — Steven Biko
A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.
Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. — William Shakespeare
The value of our good is not measured by what it does, but by the amount of good it does to the one concerned. — Milton S. Hershey
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. — Antonio Gaudi
You have to go whole heartedly in anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy. — Omar Khayyam
Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be. — Ratan Tata
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. — Heber J. Grant
I am the colour red, in a world of black and white and if you value your ability to breathe... Don't get too close. — Bray Wyatt
Award Quotes
If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture. — Milo Yiannopoulos
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. — Jesse Owens
Do not worry about tricks and cheaters. If some people are trying to trap and hurt you, Allah is also trapping them. Hole diggers will always fall in their holes. No bad remains unpunished, and no good remains without being awarded, so have faith in justice and let the rest be. — Shams Tabrizi
Just because you took longer than others, doesn't mean you failed. Remember that.
While silly ni**as argue over who gon' snatch the crown / Look around my ni**a, white people have snatched the sound / This year I'll probably go to the awards dappered down / Watch Iggy win a Grammy as I try to crack a smile. — J. Cole
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. — Jack Benny
I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar. — Carrie Fisher
You get in life what you habe the courage to ask for.
Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits. — Pink
The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all. — Bob Cousy
It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record. — Joe Baca
There is no award for suffering the most, but most people equate suffering with success. — Alex Hormozi
Academic Achievement Quotes
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar
My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others. — Nel Noddings
(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement. — Walter E. Williams
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions. — Brad Sherman
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused. — Maggie Gallagher
The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge - not only about measurement - not only about academic achievement. It is also about heart, feelings, emotions, relationship, love, compassion, generosity, beauty. All these values are part of the heart. — Satish Kumar
Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval. — Caroline Knapp
My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy. — Ram Dass
I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble. — Peter Hollingworth
Student Success Quotes
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. — William Arthur Ward
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself. — Brian Tracy
The only way you see results is if you stay consistent.
Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God’s wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse. — Joseph Prince
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. — Nicholas Murray Butler
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. — Robert Orben
Set a goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can.
Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one. — Bill Gates
If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. — Charles Kendall Adams
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. — Abdul Kalam
Academic Success Quotes
At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character. — Howard W. Hunter
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes. — Knute Rockne
There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company. — Dave Ulrich
We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success. — Gunter Pauli
Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success. — Robert Sternberg
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. — Larry Fink
Success is just a matter of luck, all you need to do is ask a failure. History may be written by academics but it's rarely created by them. — Unknown
Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university. — James E. Rogers
Achievement Gap Quotes
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap. — Margaret Spellings
I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators. — Margaret Spellings
We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about. — Margaret Spellings
Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap. — Sheryl Sandberg
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. — Jonathan Kozol
Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear. — Mitt Romney
If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids. — Barack Obama
Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas. — Don Yaeger
Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps. — Dana Goldstein
Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. — John Dewey
Goal Achievement Quotes
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. — Thomas Jefferson
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
I love being part of something that is working toward a greater goal, and there's no more satisfaction in life than achieving those goals as a team and being a part of that team. — Jim Harbaugh
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another. — Alexander Graham Bell
...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means. — W. Edwards Deming
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. — Harriet Tubman
To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before. — Stephen Covey
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. — Tom Landry
Even if a person hurts you, give him love. The worst punishment is to throw someone out of your heart... You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal. — Neem Karoli Baba
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. — Vince Lombardi
Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child. — Marva Collins
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art. — George Balanchine
My personal achievements awarded with this title would not have been possible without the enthusiasm and hard work of my international team of young students and PhD students, and without the institutions and funding bodies in Austria, Sweden and Germany that enabled me to set up laboratories and develop research projects. — Emmanuelle Charpentier
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition. — Richard A. Clarke
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition. — Richard Clark
There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others — Phil Heath
Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much cannot get better at it. — Jim Trelease
Always maintain the attitude of a student. If you think you've done learning, bitterness sets in, but if you have more to achieve every day, in any arena, that makes each morning's awakening full of potential and cheery portent. — Nick Offerman
Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will. — Michael N. Castle
1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan — Mas Oyama
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude. — Jesse Jackson
The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board. — James S. Coleman
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness. — Woody Allen
When I'm 18 years old, I'm at a friend's house. And his uncle looks me in me eye - you know, by this time I'm an over achiever, a pretty good student, etc. And he said I have the answer to your problems. I have the solution to your pain. And he held up this book. It's a bible. I didn't know what it was. — Paula White
Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement. — James Heckman
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time. — Robertson Davies
The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.' — Arne Duncan
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school. — Bill Gates
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. — Carl R. Rogers
Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or parent or student or policy maker) should ask: can technology help to achieve this goal, and which technologies are most likely to be helpful? — Howard Gardner
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. — Carl Rogers
If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld? — Adam Schiff
Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others. — James S. Coleman
At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better - can identify what their purposes were and realize better ways to achieve those purposes. — M. H. Abrams
...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him. — John G. Kemeny
Drawing on impressive achievements in academics and athletics as well as his own personal disappointments and challenges, Jordan provides students with a unique opportunity to discover the magnitude of their own potential. — Hyrum W. Smith
The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. — Arne Duncan
With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level. — Sue Kelly
I think so much emphasis these days is placed upon achievement and skill and assessment that the joy has gone out of reading for many kids. Students become distracted by struggling to learn to read or by the pressure to achieve. — Emma Walton Hamilton
Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them. — Claude Levi-Strauss
The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need. — Gordon Smith
I think this is one of the greatest strengths of this school. Not only do the students go on to achieve great milestones in their own lives, they never forget their roots and the school that gave them the chance they needed to improve their lives and their families' lives. — Michael N. Castle
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. — Felix Bloch
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
There is no clear, commanding body of evidence that students' sustained use of multimedia machines, the Internet, word processing, spreadsheets and other popular applications has any impact on academic achievement.' — Larry Cuban
The limitations of federal laws are able to create real progress at the local level. Ultimately, to effect not just incremental progress but progress that is transformational for students, we need committed leadership - people who believe deeply that their students can achieve at the highest levels and who know how to create the conditions at the classroom, school and system level to give them the opportunities they deserve. — Wendy Kopp
American Secretaries of State have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything Presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality. — Thomas Mallon
One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home. — Tony Danza
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