Andreas Schleicher quotes

“Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives”
-- Andreas Schleicher

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“We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.”
-- Andreas Schleicher

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“The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.”
-- Andreas Schleicher

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“The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers.”
-- Andreas Schleicher

Source : "'Give us a little more respect,' demand stressed-out teachers" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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“You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don’t spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won’t get higher student outcomes.”
-- Andreas Schleicher

Source : "U.S. Is Urged to Raise Teachers’ Status" by Sam Dillon, www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2011.

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“You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.”

“Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.”

“Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.”

“Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.”

“At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.”

Source : "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.

“What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends”

“When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.”

“Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.”

Source : Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i”, p.205, Macmillan

“I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.”

Source : "Spy novelist Alan Furst: 'I love the gray areas'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2001.

“All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.”