This is a nation that met that responsibility by choosing, like your ancestors did, to keep alight the flame of knowledge and invest in a world-class education for your young people.

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University of Wisconsin will grant bachelor's degrees based on a person's knowledge as demonstrated in online tests, not on class time or credits, the first such offering from a public university system.

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This may be wishful thinking, but his essential point is a good one: namely that the boom years before the great recession put far more wealth in the hands of highly educated professionals than in earlier times, and that this class--Ivied, cosmopolitan, sophisticated in the ways of the knowledge economy--naturally gravitates toward liberal values and politics.

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She discusses the key lessons of the class in this article by Sean Silverthorne, which first appeared on the HBS Working Knowledge website.

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