John Katzman Quotes

Well, I don't think that the SAT is a scam.

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the mail. I think the amounts they tell you to send are actually just suggested minimum donations - if you get my drift.

Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.

We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools that have different curriculums, different grading standards, and different ability to help students get ready for college.

At some of our most competitive universities, 17 times the amount of students that can go to the school, apply. And these applicants are from all over the country, and admissions officers need ways to sort through them. The SAT is just one of those things.

I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.

For the educational establishment... test scores are treated as indications of the extent to which the required ground covering has been done. ...as educationally significant. However, while they may be prognostic of a child's ability to get through school... they do not provide us with an appraisal of the child's progress in the long process of becoming a generally educated human being -- the advance made toward a more skillful, thoughtful, and cultivated mind.

Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn’t be limited to the wealthiest few.

The SAT is not particularly relevant to my life.

We should protest to ban NEET altogether.

When something in the sweet science doesn't look right, most likely it isn't.

I'm not arguing for a return to the grammar school system, but there must be a way of identifying bright kids from ordinary backgrounds and giving them a world-class education.

Education is the most powerful tool for everything but certainly to create opportunities for yourself, and I know that not everyone has the privilege of an education like here in America.

When millions of kids are missing out on school, delivering educational services becomes an issue that concerns the humanitarian system.

I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.

Whenever you play the game, you just want the game to be on the up and up. You don't want to ever lose a game because you felt like it was stolen from you.

Like my father, I used to believe that hard work and mastery of a standardized exam was the fairest way for students like me to compete with those who had far more resources.

It's good to be No1 but you'd like to do it the right way, not because of something that might have happened off the table.

You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.

I feel like, there's no fair in fighting: you do whatever it takes to win. Obviously, sometimes I cheat to win, but it's not illegal.

If I am lining up for a race, and I know there is someone there who cheats, it upsets me.

People always assume I went to public school, which I didn't, so that immediately puts me somewhere.