You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.
Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.
We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.
We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure.
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.
Many of my staff have been with me for over 20 years. I have a great team, and I make sure they feel respected and appreciated.
If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud.
America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.
My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.
All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.
Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.
Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.
