Schleicher Quotes & Sayings

The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers. — Andreas Schleicher

When I'm hiring leaders, I pay a lot of attention to what their peers and what people who report to them say about them. We want people who relate well with their peers and cooperate in an exchange of information rather than being overly competitive. — John Mackey

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change. — Andreas Schleicher

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes. — Andreas Schleicher

THERE IS A LOVELY LITTLE horror story about the peasant who started through the haunted wood - the wood that was, people said, inhabited by devils who took any mortal who came their way. But the peasant thought, as he walked slowly along:
I am a good man and have done no wrong. If devils can harm me, then there isn't any justice.
A voice behind him said, There isn't. — Fredric Brown

Had Schleicher been successful in his leadership of the German government at the end of 1932, he would probably have headed a very moderate, essentially anti-Nazi form of nationalist authoritarianism that would have avoided a sharp break with the republican constitution and promoted a reflationary, reformist economic policy along Keynesian or New Deal lines to revive the economy and conciliate German society. — Stanley G. Payne

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives. — Andreas Schleicher

Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership. — Andreas Schleicher

Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop. — Kurt Von Schleicher

Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out onto the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance! — J.R.R. Tolkien

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones. — Andreas Schleicher

PISA was developed by a kind of think tank for the developed world, called the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the scientist at the center of the experiment was Andreas Schleicher. — Amanda Ripley

I'm rollin' with Satan, not Jesus Christ. I'm the only son of the devil. — Big L

We don't like the storms because they challenge us! But for this very reason exactly, we must like them! Whoever challenges us gives us the opportunity to rise higher! — Mehmet Murat Ildan