Hanna Rosin Quotes

We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

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.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school.

There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.

Kids flourish if we get them to school every day.

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

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.

College on for sure... I'm scared to say it cause it sounds like a family movie, but if my kid was 7, 8, 9 I would take her to this quickly and gladly!

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.

Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.

I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

We cannot educate children who are not healthy, and we cannot have healthy children without education.

Parents have got to become more involved in their children’s education.