{"quotes":[{"text":"Stop blaming racism, politics, bullies, your crappy parents, your ex-wife, your lack of friends or anything else for your problems. Sometimes, I think our “problems” are really just opportunities to test our metal. We look at them as holes that we fall into, when really, they are the CHANCE to prove to ourselves and those around us just what kind of men we are!","author":"Josh Hatcher","tags":["bullying","challenges","opportunity","politics","problems","racism","testing","victim"],"id":5074,"author_id":"Josh+Hatcher"},{"text":"To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I’m standing up.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["character","clarity","defeat","failure","fall","falling","humanity","identity","insight","learn","limits","mettle","self-understanding","strength","test","testing","weakness"],"id":25539,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"School is testing our memory and real world is testing our memory + how we use this which we know.","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["how","is","know","memory","real","school","testing","world"],"id":33808,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.","author":"Diane Ravitch","tags":["common-sense","education","learning","school-reform","standardized-tests","teachers","teaching","testing"],"id":47541,"author_id":"Diane+Ravitch"},{"text":"We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.","author":"Freeman Dyson","tags":["adolescence","creativity","education","testing","thought"],"id":48181,"author_id":"Freeman+Dyson"},{"text":"As long as high schools strive to list the number of Ivy League schools their graduates attend and teachers pile on work without being trained to identify stress-related symptoms, I fear for our children’s health. I am not mollified by the alums of my daughter’s school who return to tell everyone that the rigor of high school prepared them for college, making their first year easier than they’d anticipated.If they make it that far.","author":"Candy Schulman","tags":["college","creativity","demands","depression","education","expectations","health","pressure","reform","sad-truth","school","schooling","society","standardized-testing","stress","suicide","testing","universities","university","work"],"id":50725,"author_id":"Candy+Schulman"},{"text":"Tuition is to studies and training is to job, but the gradation never stops (on Appraisal).","author":"Sachin Kodagali","tags":["appraisal","education","quality","software","testing"],"id":83023,"author_id":"Sachin+Kodagali"},{"text":"Africa is a huge continent; it would take several lifetimes of thousands of researchers testing in hundreds of languages to collect a valid sample of anything, especially IQ. Most Africans do their schooling in a second language, not their mother tongue. How many people would accept to be tested for their IQ level not in their primary language?","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["africa","education","intelligence","iq","multilingual","testing"],"id":85554,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"PISA was developed by a kind of think tank for the developed world, called the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the scientist at the center of the experiment was Andreas Schleicher.","author":"Amanda Ripley","tags":["academics","andreas-schleicher","education","pisa","school","students","testing","the-treasure-map"],"id":90570,"author_id":"Amanda+Ripley"},{"text":"There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him...Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive?","author":"Donna Lynn Hope","tags":["relationships","test","testing"],"id":95959,"author_id":"Donna+Lynn+Hope"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}