The most-shared John D. Rockefeller quote on education — “I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers” — has no documentary source and is almost certainly not something he said. The quotes that are traceable to Rockefeller are duller and more conventional. This page separates the two, so you don’t…
Almost every James Baldwin quote on education comes from a single source: “A Talk to Teachers,” a speech he delivered on October 16, 1963, under the title “The Negro Child — His Self-Image.” It was published in The Saturday Review on December 21, 1963. If you see a Baldwin education quote online, it is most…
These instructional coaching quotes are sorted by use: lines that describe what coaching is, lines for a card or note to a coach, and lines about feedback and growth. Instructional coaching is a fairly recent field, so most of its best lines come from a small group of researchers and practitioners — chiefly Jim Knight…
These writing quotes for students are attributed to the authors who actually said or wrote them, and sorted by the problem they solve: starting, keeping going, and revising. Most come from writers describing their own process, which is why they hold up better than anonymous motivational lines. Where a quote is commonly misattributed, it is…
To write a quote, put the speaker’s exact words inside double quotation marks and attach them to an attribution that says who said them. When the attribution comes first, follow it with a comma: She said, “The results surprised everyone.” When it comes after, replace the quote’s period with a comma inside the quotation marks:…
To quote the Bible in an essay, put the verse in quotation marks, then cite the version, book, chapter, and verse. The two styles punctuate the reference differently: MLA separates chapter and verse with a period, like (New Revised Standard Version, John 3.16), while APA uses a colon, like (New International Version, 2011, John 3:16)….
To quote an article in an essay, introduce the source, put the borrowed words in quotation marks, and follow them with an in-text citation naming the author and the location. In MLA that is a page number, like (Tolentino 44); in APA it is the year and page, like (Tolentino, 2019, p. 44). If the…
To quote a YouTube video in MLA 9, start the Works Cited entry with the video’s title in quotation marks, then YouTube in italics, the channel that uploaded it, the upload date, and the URL. The in-text citation pairs the title with a timestamp, like (“Boiling Water” 00:04:15), because a video has no page number….
To quote a TV show, put the dialogue in quotation marks, name the show and episode in your sentence, and cite it with a timestamp instead of a page number. In MLA the in-text citation is the episode title in quotation marks plus the time: (“Ozymandias” 00:41:20). The Works Cited entry lists the episode title,…
To quote a documentary, put the spoken words in quotation marks, name the film in your sentence, and cite it with a timestamp instead of a page number. In MLA the in-text citation is the title (or director) plus the time, like (RBG 00:26:16–00:27:07). In APA it is the director and year, with the timestamp…