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.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and read more

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling

My education was interrupted only by my schooling

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

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

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.