When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.

— Diane Ravitch

Diane Ravitch Quotes

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

— Diane Ravitch

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

— Diane Ravitch

When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school.

— Diane Ravitch

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

— Diane Ravitch

What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students are not different interest groups. Anyone who demeans teachers demeans education and hurts children.

— Diane Ravitch

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

— Diane Ravitch

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

— Diane Ravitch

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

— Diane Ravitch

When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.

— Diane Ravitch

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

— Diane Ravitch

We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit’s first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.

— Diane Ravitch

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change...

— Diane Ravitch

Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.

— Diane Ravitch

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.

— Diane Ravitch

An attack on Public Education is an attack on Democracy.

— Diane Ravitch

Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

— Diane Ravitch

Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of our system of education has spawned serious problems of educational quality.

— Diane Ravitch

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top.

— Diane Ravitch

The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.

— Diane Ravitch

You can’t lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

— Diane Ravitch
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