Virginia Postrel Quotes

I don't think anyone thinks that the SAT score is a measure of your innate intelligence. It is not. That is a fallacious concept, and we at Kaplan, and others who are in a position, should be out there making sure people know this is nothing, this score does not have anything to do with your innate intelligence.

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

We're so used to the tests telling me if I'm smart or not. It's telling me if I know the material or not.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.

I read so slow. If I have a script, I'm going to read it five times slower than any other actor, but I'll be able to tell you everything in it. It kills me that there are standardized tests geared towards just one kind of child.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

Every educated person is a future enemy.

To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.

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

I hate to be smart.

The Scholastic Aptitude Tests do not predict success any better than the socio economic status of the parents.

Educate, educate, educate!

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

I believe education is much more important than we assume.

I'm not dumb, I just wasn't educated.

Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it.

When it comes to efficiency, standardized tests almost sound heaven-sent.

Between my freshman and senior years of high school in the late '90s, my father spent his evenings, weekends and vacations drilling my best friend and me for our SATs.

Education is a cause very close to me. What matters is encouraging my fans to focus on their education, because only an educated generation can ensure a better future. Even when I was on tour, I did my homework and studied.

I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.

Let's make the SAT and PSAT free so everyone has a chance to succeed.

I'm arrogant enough to tell you that I'm smart enough to have scored higher on my Scholastic Aptitude Test than any US president whose SAT score has been made public. I even scored higher than ex-presidential candidate Al Gore, whose SAT score was so high, it was deemed as potentially off-putting to voters.