"Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools."

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Source : Diane Ravitch (2011). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.118, Basic Books

Diane Ravitch

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“A place without meaning is no place to be.”
“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.”
“Ardilies always says "If you're confident you're always totally different to the player that's lacking confidence"”
“There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.”

Source : Christopher Fry (1999). “A Yard of Sun”, p.84, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you”
“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it”
“Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within Thy wounds hide me. Permit me not to be separated from Thee. From the wicked foe defend me. At the hour of my death call me. And bid me come to Thee. That with Thy saints I may praise Thee For ever and ever. Amen.”
“Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But itâ€™s definitely a Thing with Claws.”

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