James Heckman Quotes

“The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.”

“The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.”

“It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.”

“My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.”

“James is all I have. I chose James. He has to be right. Please let him be right.”

“Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.”

“Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.”

“The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery"James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology”

“A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if I were to abstractly paint the phrase "I love you," it would be the visual equivalent of Joyce's Ulysses.-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz”

“Most IoT devices that lack security by design simply pass the security responsibility to the consumer, thus, treating the customers as techno-crash test dummies.James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology”