When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost.

The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their determination to be useful, self-sufficient, and productive.

In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.

Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually by a gently flowing stream.

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.