“The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.”
"Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another."
- Angela Duckworth
Personal Growth
"Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare."
- Angela Duckworth
Resilience
"As much as talent counts, effort counts twice."
- Angela Duckworth
Resilience
"In times of crisis, culture is what holds us together."
- Angela Duckworth
Resilience
"Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint."
- Angela Duckworth
Persistence
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."
- John Graham
Education
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
Education
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
Education
"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."
- Kotomi Ichinose
Education