A Quote by Keith Devlin

I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with their heartfelt and beautifully expressed mathematical arguments are all the results I need.

Keith Devlin

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Keith Devlin
British - Mathematician
Born: March 16, 1947

The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.

James S. Coleman

There is, between the sexes, a law of incessant reciprocal action, of which God avails himself in the constitution of the family, when He permits brothers and sisters to nestle about the same hearthstone. Its ministration is essential to the best educational results. Our own educational institutions should rest upon this divine basis.

Caroline Wells Healey Dall

Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.

Bobby Scott

If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.

Richard P. Feynman

I hate the word educational! I mean, 'Downton Abbey' is educational in that you come away from it knowing so much more about that period than when the show started, but you don't come away thinking it was educational.

Tony Robinson

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

Ellen Ochoa

I look forward to talking about how we can work together to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for all students while also refocusing the federal role in education.

Betsy DeVos

You should look to give your best shot and not worry about the results because if you work hard, the results will take care of themselves.

S. Sreesanth

There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.

Peter Brimelow

Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle.

Peter Brimelow

At Eventbrite, we value quality results over everything else. So while working late is acknowledged, at the end of the day, I care more about the results you're producing.

Julia Hartz

I learned in America that Americans are into results. Americans don't care where you came from, what your family did, what school you graduated from. They care about if you can deliver the results. That's what makes America the country it is.

Mark Burnett

Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

Cesar Chavez

High-quality alternative educational settings should be available when students violate codes of conduct and need to be removed from the classroom while still maintaining access to instruction. And there must be social, health and psychological services to address students' needs.

Randi Weingarten

Free educational materials will, at minimum, prepare more people for college and allow them to be more successful once they get there. Most students want credentials that employers respect, and free educational materials alone will not do this.