Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.