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 comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
I've never let my school interfere with my education.
I've never let my school interfere with my education.
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can read more
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. -Mark Twain.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the read more
The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and read more
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from read more
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth read more
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
