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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
— Wendy Kopp
It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
— Wendy Kopp
Let the tech firms and consulting firms build your skills, but be sure to ask yourself, 'Am I maximizing my impact?' 'Am I living up to my values?'
— Wendy Kopp
All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)
— Sheldon B. Kopp
One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
— Wendy Kopp
It is not possible to know how much is just enough, until we have experienced how much is more than enough. (64)
— Sheldon B. Kopp
In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.
— Wendy Kopp
So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.
— Wendy Kopp
The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
— Wendy Kopp
In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
— Wendy Kopp
Again and again I find that my own inner counselor, my secret dreaming self, is not only wise and helpful but usually amusing as well.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
— Wendy Kopp
When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
— Wendy Kopp
Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
— Wendy Kopp
That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
You can't get there from here, and besides there's no place else to go.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.
— Wendy Kopp
Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
We're trying to be the top employer of recent grads in the country. Size gives us leverage to have a tangible impact on school systems.
— Wendy Kopp
Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
Each of us is ultimately alone.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.
— Wendy Kopp
Giving saves lives. Especially the giver's.
— Shannon Kopp
Kids who live in low income areas face extra challenges and show up at schools that were not designed to meet their extra needs.
— Wendy Kopp
I usually don't really have breakfast.
— Wendy Kopp
It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
— Wendy Kopp
Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
— Wendy Kopp
Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.
— Wendy Kopp
Sheldon Kopp, the author and psychologist, wrote, There are no great men. If you have a hero, look again: you have diminished yourself in some way.
— Jim Bouton
We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.
— Wendy Kopp
If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.
— Wendy Kopp
Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
All significant battles are fought within self.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)
— Sheldon B. Kopp
He may only get to keep that which he is willing to let go of.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
Often things are as bad as they seem.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.
— Wendy Kopp
The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.
— Wendy Kopp
In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
— Wendy Kopp
We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.
— Wendy Kopp
Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.
— Wendy Kopp
Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am; it helps me find my place in the community of man.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.
— Wendy Kopp
We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.
— Wendy Kopp
You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)
— Sheldon B. Kopp
Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.
— Wendy Kopp
Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
I'm happy to admit that I'm a hopeless optimist.
— Wendy Kopp
Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
— Wendy Kopp
If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
— Wendy Kopp