"Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program."

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Source : "Education and the election: it's still all about the money" Lucy Clark, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2016.

Diane Ravitch

#Teacher Quotes #Children Quotes #Educational Quotes

“I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature in the nineteenth century comes close - so exclusively produced by and closely identified with a tiny but powerful ruling elite, the upper-caste, Anglophone upper middle class, and dependent for so long on book buyers and readers elsewhere.”
“One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.”
“Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.”
“Thereâ€™s a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning.”
“Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.”
“Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.”
“It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.”
“The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.”

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