All real education is the architecture of the soul.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

[That's what former education secretary and drug czar Bill Bennett did last Wednesday on his radio show . When a caller suggested that legal abortions had depleted the tax base for Social Security, Bennett counseled against such utilitarian arguments.] I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could—if that were your sole purpose—you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down, ... That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.

I think there is a desperate need for different kinds of education outside the comprehensive high school. I think the success of charter schools in terms of enrollment proves that on some level this school is a risk worth taking.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.