Quotes on Academic Achievement

My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.