It's ultimately the purpose of education to cultivate the love of learning for its own sake.
Michael SandelEconomics has increasingly become the science of human behavior in general, and it's all the more unlikely to think that it can possibly be value-free - and, in fact, it isn't. Economics rests on un-argued assumptions that need to be examined.
Michael SandelAiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.
Michael SandelI think part of being a parent, to love one's child, is to accept them as they come - not to see them as instruments of our ambition or as creatures to be molded, as if they were themselves commodities.
Michael Sandel