"Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers..." - Quote by Bill Gates
Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.
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“If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.”
“Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.”
“In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.”
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“We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.”
“I think that's an important thing to do, to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. This may sound like simple advice, but hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful.”
“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”
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“If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.”
“Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.”
“Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.”