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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Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a read more
But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day--
In sighing and dismay.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that read more
Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at
all.
