Lara Z-Epic

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“feeling so far is that standardized testing and performance-based salaries are likely to push education from social norms to market norms. The United States already spends more money per student than any other Western society. Would it be wise to add more money? The same consideration applies to testing: we are already testing very frequently, and more testing is unlikely to improve the quality of education. I suspect that one answer lies in the realm of social norms. As we learned in our experiments, cash will take you only so far—social norms are the forces that can make a difference in the long run. Instead of focusing the attention of the teachers, parents, and kids on test scores, salaries, and competition, it might be better to instill in all of us a sense of purpose, mission, and pride in education. To do this we certainly can’t take the path of market norms. The Beatles proclaimed some time ago that you “Can’t Buy Me Love” and this also applies to the love of learning—you can’t buy it; and if you try, you might chase it away.”
― Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

“There are many examples to show that people will work more for a cause than for cash.”
― Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

“N’allez pas là où le chemin peut mener. Allez là où il n’y a pas de chemin et laissez une trace.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Citadelle