#pro

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#america #believe #child #education #equal

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#become #good #good managers #i #i love

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#been #competition #education #i #improve

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#been #believe #better #changes #children

There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#bad #been #curriculum #elementary #elementary school

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#be true #been #contempt #deal #demoralized

But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that. ↗

— Richard Krajicek

#either #full-time #full-time job #i #job

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#best #energy #here #improve #miserable

It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown. ↗

— Diana Krall

#brought #brown #drummer #hamilton #hear

Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason. ↗

— Judith Krantz

#everything #honest #interesting #life #life story