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John Katzman

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John Katzman is the found of The Princeton Review. He claims to have scored "about a 1500 on the SAT". He is considered by many to be inarticulate.

Selected Quotes

"You do need a common yardstick. You do need some way to judge an A at this school or this teacher versus an A at this school or this teacher. But there are lots of common yardsticks. Again, you could use blood type. You could use height. Anything is a common yardstick. What you have to say is, fine, it's common. But it is useful? And there are lots of tests that are more useful than the SAT that are also common."

"You can say, my interest is history. And so I'm going to take a history Advanced Placement test. And I'm going to get--I want kids to be rigorous. I want curricula to be rigor to be rigorous. But I want them to be not one size fits all and not mindless. Like, let's have kids studying hard but let's have them studying something useful, hard."