function StringArray (n) {
  this.length = n;
  for (var i =1; i <= n; i++) {
    this[i] = ' '

  }
}

quote = new StringArray(10)
quote[0] = "Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts."
quote[1] = "Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
quote[2] = "The principal goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."
quote[3] = "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."
quote[4] = "I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me."
quote[5] = "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know.  It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."
quote[6] = "...assessment should serve one primary purpose: to improve student learning."
quote[7] = "Assessment, thus, has many functions.  It is only as good as its instruments, and it is defensible only to the extent that it actively fowards and enhances a child's learning."
quote[8] = "An educational decision that will have a major impact on a test taker should not be made solely or automatically on the basis of a single test score..."
quote[9] = "The National PTA believes that the overall goal of student assessment and testing programs should be to identify how instruction can be improved and learning increased."
quote[10] = "Norm referenced tests are not about assessing excellence; they are about sorting students (or schools) into winners and losers."
quote[11] = "The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is lack of authentic learning tasks, procedure and routines."
quote[12] = "In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how."

author = new StringArray(10)
author[0] = "Albert Einstein"
author[1] = "Jonathan Swift"
author[2] = "Jean Piaget"
author[3] = "Alec Bourne"
author[4] = "St. Augustine"
author[5] = "Anatole France"
author[6] = "Bob Peterson, editor, Rethinking Schools"
author[7] = "Theodore Sizer, Boston College"
author[8] = "from 'High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation' - National Research Council Report"
author[9] = "from 'National PTA Background Brief: Testing'"
author[10] = "Alfie Kohn"
author[11] = "Harry Wong"
author[12] = "Harry Wong"

function writeQuote()
{
var now = new Date()
var sec = now.getSeconds()
var core = sec % quote.length

var thequote = quote[core]
var theauthor = author[core]
var theq = '&quot;'
var theend = ''


document.write( '<i>' + theq + thequote + theq + " " + theauthor + '</i>'  )
}