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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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.