Bill Gates

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to. ”

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good. ”

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching. ”

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education. ”

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down. ”

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids. ”

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education. ”

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. ”

Common Core is a big win for education. ”

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school. ”