“With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year, and with politicians that seem more interested in posturing than in governing, it has become more difficult, or should I say challenging, to achieve that inner symbiosis with life.” ShouldYearsCountrySeemsSchoolHumanityDifficultChallengesAchieveCrimeBuddhismPoliticianRatePaceShould IGoverningSchool SystemCrime RatesSymbiosis Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School.” PeopleWantSchoolSpiritualTeachAchieveBuddhismTrainingLiberationRamaGuidelinesFunny People Author:Frederick Lenz
“As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.” IfsTryingSchoolAsksGoalBoysAchieveRectify Author:John Gokongwei
“I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of drifted away, candidly, in my latter teen years. I consider myself deeply spiritual but not in an institutional, religious kind of a way. In Catholicism, we're surrounded by these images of martyrdom and doing penance and doing some suffering to achieve what you're trying to achieve. And I certainly embedded that in my psyche and I have lived that very effectively.” WayTryingYearsKindSchoolSpiritualSufferingReligiousBoysAchieveHigh SchoolCatholicRaisedLatterCatholicismEmbeddedMartyrdomPenancePrivate School Author:James Balog
“I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what we are taught rather than to form our own goals and to figure out how to achieve them. We are fed with facts and tested and those who make the fewest mistakes are considered to be the smart ones, so we learn that it is embarrassing to not know and to make mistakes. Our education system spends virtually no time on how to learn from mistakes, yet this is critical to real learning.” KnowsLifeBelieveRealFactsProblemSchoolFormI BelieveGoalGrowthMistakeAchieveFiguresTaughtSmartPersonal GrowthInvestingCriticalMaking MistakesOur SocietyFedsEmbarrassingTestedLearning From MistakesEducation SystemElementary SchoolPhobia Author:Ray Dalio
“Everything I have today is because of Africa, I was born here, went to school here, I work here and I'm achieving some level of financial comfort here” TodaySchoolBornLevelsAchieveComfortFinancial Author:Tony Elumelu
“The limitations of federal laws are able to create real progress at the local level. Ultimately, to effect not just incremental progress but progress that is transformational for students, we need committed leadership - people who believe deeply that their students can achieve at the highest levels and who know how to create the conditions at the classroom, school and system level to give them the opportunities they deserve.” PeopleKnowsNeedsGivingBelieveRealAbleSchoolLawOpportunityLevelsKnow HowProgressAchieveConditionsEffectsStudentsHighestDeserveCommittedLocalsLimitationClassroom Author:Wendy Kopp
“The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.” WayNeedsGivingHelpingSchoolOpportunityAchieveStudentsPromiseDollarsDisabilityFull Potential Author:Gordon Smith
“Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.” ImportantSchoolOrderSportsGoalSacrificeAchieveProjectsLateWinnerPersistenceEndeavorPersistFinishingHomeworkDrillsCompletingWorking Late Author:Leon F. "Lee" Ellis
“Margaret Thatcher has one great advantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughter of the people desire to be. Shirley Williams has such an advantage over her because she's a member of the upper-middle class and can achieve the kitchen-sink revolutionary look that one cannot get unless one has been to a really good school.” PeopleLooksHas BeensSchoolDesireClassMiddleAchieveMembersDaughterAdvantageRevolutionaryKitchenMiddle ClassGood SchoolUpper Middle ClassKitchen Sinks Author:Rebecca West
“I remember when my daughter was twelve, suddenly a boy started hanging out in front of our house after school. It was this kid, Justin. My office at the time was right in the front, so I just looked out the window. I couldn't write. I couldn't concentrate. I was like, "What are you doing? What do you expect to achieve by standing in front of my house with my daughter inside?" I hated that kid so much.” WritingKidsSchoolRememberHouseBoysAchieveFrontsOfficeDaughterStandingWindowHatedMy DaughterHanging OutTwelveRemember WhenJustinAfter School Author:Cinco Paul
“Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the industrial revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.” ShouldSchoolAchieveBuildingRevolutionScalesSoftwareMaintainingIndustrial RevolutionInteractive Author:Naveen Jain
“One reason that might motivate a worker to accept a riskier job at higher pay, for example, would be that doing so would enable him to bid more effectively for a house in a better school district. But if other workers did likewise, none would achieve the goal they were striving for.” IfsReasonMightWould BeSchoolJobsHouseGoalPayAcceptingAchieveExampleHigherStriveWorkersSchool Districts Author:Robert H. Frank
“All parents want to send their children to the best possible schools. But because a good school is a relative concept, a family cannot achieve its goal unless it outbids similar families for a house in a neighborhood served by such a school. Failure to do so often means having to send your kids to a school with metal detectors at the front entrance and students who score in the 20th percentile in reading and math. Most families will do everything possible to avoid having to send their kids to a school like that. But because of the logic of musical chairs, they're inevitably frustrated.” WantMeanChildrenKidsSchoolReadingHouseParentGoalAchieveFrontsStudentsConceptsLogicMusicalMathScoreChairsNeighborhoodRelativeMetalsFrustratedEntrancesGood SchoolMetal Detectors Author:Robert H. Frank
“You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a decent wage. You can't tell children to achieve and then let them go to broken-down schools with teachers who don't care. We need a consistency of values in our public, corporate, and private lives.” ChildrenCareSchoolValuesParentTeachTeacherAchieveDecentConsistency Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achieve in a highly competitive world are too much for a lot of very promising young people. There have been something like ten youth suicides in Palo Alto in the past ten years. They usually step in front of the train that runs by the high school.” PeopleWorldProblemRunningSchoolPastAchieveYouthExpectationsHigh SchoolSuicideTrainHigh Expectations Author:James Franco