Quotes About Evaluation

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ

Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

The story of declining school quality across the twentieth century is, for the most part, a fable," says social scientist Richard Rothstein, whose book The Way We Were? cites a series of similar attacks on American education, moving backward one decade at a time.3 Each generation invokes the good old days, during which, we discover, people had been doing exactly the same thing.

Suppose you want your child to grow into someone who is (a) ethical, (b) able to sustain healthy relationships, (c) intellectually curious, and (d) fundamentally content with him- or herself. Anything you do with your children on a regular basis, then, should be evaluated in light of your ultimate goals.

a grade can be regarded only as an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite amount of material.

Are we encouraging him to make his own judgments about what constitutes a good performance (or a desirable action) ? Are we contributing to, or at least preserving, his ability to choose what kind of person to be? Or are we attempting to manipulate his behavior by getting him to think about whether he has met our criteria? The

the most notable aspect of a positive judgment is not that it is positive but that it is a judgment.

Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated!

After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

By nature, critical people are inclined to find fault or to judge others with severity and often too readily.

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

I never want to waste a frame. I always look and see what I've got.

Only a few singles off an album really work, and the rest of the songs feel like such a waste.

The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.

You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.

To pay attention to flattery or criticism is a waste of time for artists.