That honor goes to finding out, back during my first stay in China in the mid-1980s, when glasses were in short supply, that spectacles were distributed with preference given to those who had attained a high level of education, the notion being that academics and teachers needed to read for a living.
If we don't talk about the future, we impoverish the whole notion of education for careers in business.
These range from the number of calories burned in sexual activity to the value of physical education classes to the notion that burning 3, 500 extra calories leads mathematically to a one-pound weight loss.
It therefore makes feasible the notion of universal education, with the potential of some remarkable consequence.
Indeed, while the poor and black are more likely to be obese than the rich and white, the Rand Corporation's Roland Sturm pooh-poohs the notion that higher education and greater wealth will stem the broadening tide.
And those widening gaps, those widening salary differentials, continue to widen because again once you internalise the notion of the higher education project being about private return for private investment then obviously individual members of the faculty begin thinking to themselves and understanding their mission in private rather than public ways.
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In a world where digital learning becomes the platform for our education system, however, this whole notion should turn around.
As in Australia, which followed a similar path, the notion of a separate but equal sector of higher education fooled nobody.
"It almost seems to promote the notion that there is this no-cost alternative for higher education, " he said.
The notion that math is a male skill is a persistent mindset, from elementary education to the career paths men and women take in adulthood.
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Everyone was talking about the MOOC this past year as the notion of an online course offering with infinite capacity captured the attention and imagination of the education industry.
The notion of Mr Bush now steering through anything with the scope of his tax cut or his education bill seems remote.
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