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Diane Ravitch

  • ... 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.

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

  • The person who knows 'how' will always have a job. The person who knows 'why' will always be his boss.

    • Diane Ravitch,
    • in Time ()
  • Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

    • Diane Ravitch

Diane Ravitch, U.S. writer, historian, educator

(1938)

Full name: Diane Silvers Ravitch.