It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

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.

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.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war read more

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.