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.
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I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in read more
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more
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 do know and what you don't.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
