[Richard]

Education offers the potential to gain perspective, context, and opportunity, and America, like no other nation in the world, offers the opportunity to gain an education...even if it's in hamburger technology.

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

A few thoughtful reads that - combined with my personal experiences as a student, teacher, and edcational administrator - influenced my thinking on education:

• John Kuhn's Fear and Learning in America - Bad Data, Good Teachers, and the Attack on Public Education. Teachers College Press, NY.
• Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities - Children In America's Schools. HarperCollins, NY.
• Frederick Rudolph's The American College and University - A History. Univ of Georgia Press.
• Craig Steven Wilder's Ebony and Ivy - Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities. Bloomsbury Press, NY.

Gutes lesen.

Richard