Education: A debt due from present to future generations.

Education: A debt due from present to future generations.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.

Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.

How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math read more

How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of read more

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what read more

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and read more

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.