Quotes by Diane Ravitch

About Diane Ravitch:

Diane Silvers Ravitch is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Previously, she was a U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education.
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Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

Diane Ravitch

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

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American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to t...

Diane Ravitch

A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them to act as they did. A historian customarily displays a certain diffidence about trying to influence events, knowing that...

Diane Ravitch

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

Diane Ravitch

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

Diane Ravitch

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

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Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

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We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them.

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Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Diane Ravitch

Author Bio

  • NameDiane Ravitch
  • DescriptionAmerican academic
  • BornJuly 1, 1938
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship