Words matter. These are the best John Katzman Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.
Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT’s supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What’s the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT’s coachable, the more problems you have with it.
I’d never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.
After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don’t think I was there more than a month.
No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.
You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody’s forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.
I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.
We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not the biggest problem we have. But it’s so easy to get rid of it. Right? Just pull the plug.
Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.
I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.
The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might’ve… I think you want to move on when you’ve given your best work and then feel that you’re not going to add as much value moving forward.
When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don’t remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.
Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.
The SAT is a scam.
