Basleria
May 2009
20 posts
“The flaw in the educational system, as far as I see it, is that you live your life - the teacher and student - in quest of A’s. Yet later in life, the A is irrelevant. So then what is the point of the school system? It’s missing something. It is not identifying to people who actually succeed in life, because they’re not showing up as the straight A’s. So somewhere in there, the educational system needs to reflect on what it takes to succeed in life, and get some of that back into the classroom.”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science Literacy
“The teachers unions want to define it as ‘showing up for professional development.’ But only in education would people take that definition of ‘pay for performance’ with a straight face.”
—Budget Outlines Funding for Teacher Merit Pay Programs
