Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance.