Rigorous Learning Quotes

It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible.

Harvard Law School is great. I'm lucky to be here. It's a really difficult, intense experience.

Lower standards tell students that they don't need to work hard and leave more high school students unprepared for college and the workplace.

Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.

It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

It's every teacher's job to be rigorous about constantly being open to new ideas and innovation.

Call me old-fashioned, but it's always been my firm belief that a teacher's job should be for each of his or her students to finish the year with a grade of 100%.

I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.