Quotes About Assessment

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Do not assess a man who has nothing, And thus falsify your pen.

During the examinations, the students are not tested for their mental and physical strengths before entering the exams hall, or class.

Our educational system is filled with the art of memorisation, how much you can recall in the exams hall, and nothing to do with the testing of our intelligence.

Did all of Singer's efforts to discredit mainstream science matter? When asked in 1995 where he got his assessments of ozone depletion, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, probably the most powerful man in Congress at the time, said, "my assessment is from reading people like Fred Singer."93

Lomborg and his followers make the philosophical error of thinking that things that can't be counted don't count.

We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.

The idea that intelligence can be quantitatively measured along a single linear scale has caused untold harm to our society in general, and to education in particular.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.

I do not deny, however, that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the Whites.

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.

Nash, who carried in his head a sort of social ladder, had quietly decided that police officers of all ranks were to be graded with piano tuners.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

It's dubious and dangerous, Drucker is saying, to mistake what's measurable for what's important.

What kind of car did Michael Honeycutt, banker, drive? What did he look like, how did he sound? I wanted to see him, to weigh the fabric of his suit, smell his cologne, judge his haircut, watch his body language, listen to the way he shaped his vowels.

Breguswith was everywhere, touching everything, assessing, organising, nudging, anticipating.

Most of the women were frank in their assessment of the men, gossiping about which make a good husband, which good sport. Hild mostly listened to the birds.

El gusto no se deshonra con lo que le plazca o deteste, sino con lo que erróneamente equipare.

just because a test or measurement is reliable doesn't mean it's valid.

You can always tell a pig by its grunt.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

This might be good, I thought as I studied the crowd. There were several definitely intelligen?t guys present, not strobe-lig?ht intellects but people who could make you uncomforta?ble in a debate if you got too much beyond what you absolutely had the facts on.