Angela Duckworth Quotes

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing.

As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.

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.

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

We all know—not just from common wisdom but from hard research—that all children benefit from being in smaller classes.

Education depends on 5 factors: The attendance at school, the time spent watching television at home, the time of reading at home, the amount of reading material in home, and the number of parents in home.

There is compelling evidence that shows student involvement in the arts can make a significant difference in improving educational outcomes for all kids.

I would like my kids to study well.

I kind of always did get good grades.

I have seen schools across the country working long and hard to embed a commitment to the unlimited development of every student into their cultures. The result, in terms of motivated learners and test scores, often is spectacular.

I was a student that responded well to knowing what to work on.

Our schools should be rewarding for all students.

A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.

At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.

Because I did well at the prep school, I got to have more options as some different universities gave me offers.

I was in school studying International Studies and Sociology. I was really into what was going on in school. I was affected by the ideas and engaged as a student, but not disciplined or motivated enough to do the work. That was a fear of mine for a while, that nothing was motivating.