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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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up read more
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
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.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it read more
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
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.
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
