Dannel Malloy Quotes

There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

Data not only measures progress—it inspires it. Once you start measuring problems, people are more inclined to take action to fix them, because nobody wants to end up at the bottom of a list of rankings.

I am way more accurate than my completion percentage shows.

I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?

I'm a good listener, and I take into consideration everything people tell me, but at the same time, I believe my eyes as well as the experience I had as a player. So players who underperform? There has to be a reason why... my job is for them to perform.

Competition means the best player will play.

Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do is go to the library.But guess what?Only three percent of the people in America have a library card.Wow,they must be expensive!No, they're free.Probably in every neighborhood.Three percent!

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

Education is our passport to the future.

Many kids think unless they go to one of these great Ivy League schools, which I was lucky enough to go to later, that they won't get the same kind of learning. But I learned just the opposite lesson; that my best teachers were not at Harvard University.

We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.

Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.

Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.

We can't keep measuring success by how much money are we throw at programs. We have to measure success as, 'Is it working?'

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.

Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education.

Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential

I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps. My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school. I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.

Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.