#student

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#caring #effort #experience #garden #gardener

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#beyond #exposure #good #had #hope

The enemy of learning is knowing. ↗

— Steve Ahn

#school #students #teaching #education

Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#been #chicago #come #completely #country

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. ↗

— William Glasser

#connecting #education #eliminating #improve #schooling

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help. ↗

— William Glasser

#ask #being #book #books #closed

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy. ↗

— William Glasser

#even #good #grade #help #help others

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. ↗

— William Glasser

#intellectual #lack #relationship #school #students

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#charter #charter schools #florida #gained #improved

Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#california #college #grossly #high #high school