When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

Common Core is a big win for education.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.