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“I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“The people who run the international tests told us, "the biggest predictor of student success is choice." Nations that "attach the money to the kids" and thereby allow parents to choose between different public and private schools have higher test scores. This should be no surprise; competition makes us better.”

People Should Different Running Kids School Choices Nations Parent Students Higher Tests Competition Surprise International Score Student Success Private School Test Scores

Author:John Stossel

“Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?”

“The Assembly passed a budget that makes the right choices for young students across the state by helping schools avoid cutting essential educational programs, laying off teachers and increasing local property taxes. Without a sound investment in our children and their education, New York would face crumbling school buildings, overcrowded classrooms, and few opportunities to excel.”

“It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.”

Giving School Choices Education Students Lows Program Performing Locked Introducing Scholarship

Author:Rick Perry

“I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.”

“Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has.”

Children Choices Issues Students Engaged Surprising Food Choices

Author:Michael Pollan

“Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics.”

Needs Writing Choices Reading Students Materials Topics

Book:Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

Source: Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

“In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.”

Source: Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I

“Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.”

Moments Choices Possibility Students Infinite Humble Infinite Possibilities

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices.”

Firsts Made Able Order Choices Students College Athlete Good Choices Making Good Choices Student Athlete

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that I feel absolutely constricts young black students.”

Feels Young Choices Black Environment Students Activity Ideology

Author:Kamala Harris

“Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard choice to study. Wherever you find such a teacher, you will also find self-motivated students who study hard. When students study hard, learning occurs.”

Self Hard Choices Study Teacher Students Models Inspired Motivated Great Teacher Great Education Self Motivated

Author:Oliver DeMille