The idea that we are going to surge a tremendous amount of money and assets in [Afghanistan] and they are suddenly going to be able to jet-propel themselves from the 12th century to the American industrial revolution of the 1900s is absurd

Kit Parker (left), Harvard associate professor and US army major

Each student has the right . . . to be provided with challenges for learning at the most appropriate level. If society is based on . . . the rights of the individual, schools must provide an equal . . . opportunity for all children to develop to their fullest potential