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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.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one
Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one
Nature has always had more force than education.
Nature has always had more force than education.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn read more
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.
