Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.

- L. Todd Rose

We need to develop people rather than process them.

- L. Todd Rose

Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and wh…

- L. Todd Rose

I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.

- L. Todd Rose

Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

- L. Todd Rose

Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things - only we do it from an in…

- L. Todd Rose

It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.

- L. Todd Rose

The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.

- L. Todd Rose

Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.

- L. Todd Rose