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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. -- Jacques Barzun
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. -- William Glasser
Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life. -- Will Smith
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. -- Melinda Gates
There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests. -- Marvin Hamlisch
I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education. -- Ma Ying-jeou
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education. -- Stephen Covey
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future. -- Thad Cochran
Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning. -- Wendy Kopp
There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money. -- Derek Bok
The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives. -- James Heckman
I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing. -- Thabo Mbeki
I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut. -- Alan G. Poindexter
Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not. -- Ken Robinson
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.' -- Amity Shlaes
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. -- Diane Ravitch
The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by standardized testing. -- Nat Hentoff
Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country. -- Zephyr Teachout
Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. -- Harvey Cushing

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