Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions of education should be determined in the local community by a close and continuous discussion among students, faculty,… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
I thought I should try something relatively inexpensive, relatively contained, relatively small. I started working on a feature, a film I'd still like to… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about. — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don't have anything… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore its position… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it. — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese or whatever.… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
