Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she presents as a pretty respectable, intelligent person who has cared passionately about education and cares about charter schools.
David BrooksI learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"
David BrooksI agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of domestic discretionary, which is welfare, education, all the stuff the government does, parks, FBI, and it shouldn't be coming out of Medicaid.
David BrooksThe technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.
David BrooksWe are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.
David BrooksStudents are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.
David Brooks