The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

