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.

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

The world is run by C students.

The world is run by C students.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation read more

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.