"You have to remember, we may be the only nation, the only one I know of, that uses test scores not to assess kids, but to assess teachers. I think we're unique in doing that."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

John Merrow

#Teacher Quotes #Kids Quotes #Unique Quotes

“Thou didst thy best, that is success.”
“The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence.”
“Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.”
“To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time...To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer.”
“I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer and it may never come again.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mr. George Feeny". "Boy Meets World. Long Walk to Pittsburgh: Part 2", www.imdb.com. 1997.
“I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely.”
“Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.”
“You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”

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