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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Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological read more
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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.
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.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of read more
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. read more
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -Joseph Joubert.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation read more
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
