Linda Darling-Hammond Quotes

• A democratic education means that we educate people in a way that ensures they can think independently, that they can use information, knowledge, and technology, among other things, to draw their own conclusions.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Education, Mean, Technology

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• In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools that are developing these skills.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Teamwork, Reading, Writing

  "A Radical Way Of Unleashing A Generation Of Geniuses" by Joshua Davis, www.wired.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of practice are not simple, predictable, or standardized. Consequently, instructional decisions cannot be formulated on high then packaged and handed down to teachers.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Teacher, Teaching, Simple

  Linda Darling-Hammond (1997). “The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work”, Jossey-Bass

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• Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Teacher, Students

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• If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Education, Baby, Learning

  Linda Darling-Hammond, Nicole Ramos-Beban, Rebecca Padnos Altamirano, Maria E. Hyler (2016). “Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success”, p.114, Teachers College Press

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• Life doesn't come with four choices.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Choices, Four

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• We can't fire our way to Finland.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Fire, Way, Finland

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