"The evidence would suggest that there are some great alternative certification programmes and some lousy ones. There are some wonderful traditional education schools, and some that aren't so effective. What's important is less the pathway than the impact on students."

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Source : Source: www.economist.com

Wendy Kopp

#School Quotes #Impact Quotes #Important Quotes

“It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.”
“Now we get quite a lot of complaints that we don't feature enough affordable cars on the show so we'll kick off tonight with the cheapest Ferrari of them all!”
“I am a simpleton at heart. In my personal life, I don't wear makeup.”
“I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.”
“Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.”
“I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.”

Source : "Sharpton answers Bush in speech". www.cnn.com. July 29, 2004.
“I've always loved jazz.”
“Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.”

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