You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

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.

By education most have been misled.

By education most have been misled.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

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 know and what you don't.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.

If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would read more

If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.

'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.