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Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.