"Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up."

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Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.66, Random House

Carol S. Dweck

#Achievement Quotes #Growth Quotes #Test Scores Quotes

“Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it. . . . What frustrates us and robs our lives of joy is this absence of meaning. . . . Does our being alive matter?”
“Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.”
“At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.”
“No man is greater than his prayer life.”
“I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.”
“Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.”
“we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how long they have been ignored, taken for granted, misused. After all, isn't poetry a form of prophecy, and aren't prophets known for their talent for flourishing in inhospitable deserts and other bleak surroundings? Maybe. But maybe not indefinitely.”

Source : Jan Clausen (1982). “A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism”, Long Haul Pr
“Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.”

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