I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
On the [Betsy] DeVos case, I agree that the gun - her gun position is kind of weird, kind of crazy, but… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Just, as I have traveled around from school to school, whether it's project-based learning or an outward bound curriculum, it's very hard… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
[Betsy DeVos] is quite a smart person, capable, pretty sophisticated in subtle thought. And so to me, that puts her in the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
[Betsy DeVos] does care about charter schools, which are public schools. She does care about choice, which is a perfectly legitimate thing… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Basically, less educated or high school-educated whites are going to Donald Trump. It doesn't matter what the guy does. And college-educated going… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The fact that there could be an ISIS West Bank, the fact that the Palestinian government in Gaza doesn't even acknowledge Israel's… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going to be… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I do think Donald Trump is a fundamentally unstabilizing force and that the people who swore to uphold the Constitution are going to have… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
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