Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Linda Darling-Hammond

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American professor Linda Darling-Hammond.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Linda Darling-Hammond is an American academic who is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She was also the President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute. She is author or editor of more than 25 books and more than 500 articles on education policy and practice. Her work focuses on school restructuring, teacher education, and educational equity. She was education advisor to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and was reportedly among candidates for United States Secretary of Education in the Obama administration.

American - Professor | Born: December 21, 1951

Source: Wikipedia

Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.

Linda Darling-Hammond

A democratic education means that we educate people in a way that ensures they can think independently, that they can use information, knowledge, and technology, among other things, to draw their own conclusions.

Linda Darling-Hammond

In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools that are developing these skills.

Linda Darling-Hammond

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

Linda Darling-Hammond

We can't fire our way to Finland.

Linda Darling-Hammond

Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of practice are not simple, predictable, or standardized. Consequently, instructional decisions cannot be formulated on high then packaged and handed down to teachers.

Linda Darling-Hammond

Life doesn't come with four choices.

Linda Darling-Hammond

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Linda Darling-Hammond

Related Authors