Friday, February 29, 2008

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., US Supreme Court Justice

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., US Supreme Court Justice (1841-1935)

I take this to mean that a child's parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents have a great effect on the child's educational attainments, which I think is very true, and is a significant factor in the very intractable "achievement gap."


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