An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

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

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

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.

In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world around them, develop a sense of civic and social responsibility, and discover how they can contribute to the common good?

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.