Steven Crowder Quotes

I support high academic standards. Period.

I think I am a tough grader, because I feel like it's my job to teach them to write well. I hope my students say I'm a fair teacher.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

We have had this massive effort on K-12 reform, raising standards, great teachers, great principals, turning around chronically failing schools, raising the bar, huge amount of progress. Let's continue that.

I don’t know any parent who wants to send his children to a below average school.

Schools should be held accountable for results.

In the drive to improve reading and mathematics, the schools have not just put history on the back burner. They have taken it off the stove.

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious. It is a difficult assignment. The conditions the teacher arranges must be powerful enough to compete with those under which the student tends to behave in distracting ways.

The single most important factor in determining [student] achievement is not the color of skin or where they come from. It is not who their parents are or how much money they have. It is who their teacher is.

If I came home with a grade of A, my father would say, 'There must have been a lot of dummies in that class.'

Integrated schools help students achieve academic success in the present and personal success in the future.

I am never worried that I'm not gonna get my work done. I was the kid who got straight As and was a little too intense in school. Like, I am a perfectionist, and I am going to sit at the front of the class with my hand raised.

Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.

My dad, who was a teacher, used to tell me that a teacher's goal should be for every one of their students to get an A. If that's your goal every day - to make every student or player learn - then it doesn't matter if you won last year or didn't win. When next year's team shows up, I try to help every player become as good as they can be.

They want it all - all As, all wins by 20, and want the highest GPA. Don't coach at Kentucky if you can't accept that.

Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.