Michael J. Schmoker famous quotes

School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.
-- Michael J. Schmoker

#Educational #School #Improvement

Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make a difference.
-- Michael J. Schmoker

#Data #Differences #Inspire

What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.
-- Michael J. Schmoker

#Data #Doe #Done

Learning, without any opportunities to share what we've learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won't do it as well.
-- Michael J. Schmoker

#Opportunity #Cooking #Littles

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.
-- Michael J. Schmoker

#Reading #Years #Process

Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.
-- Michael J. Schmoker

#Reform #Substance #Favors

In a healthy system, there is no blame.
-- Michael J. Schmoker

#Healthy #Management #Blame

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.

Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.

Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.