David T. Kearns Quotes

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

David T. Kearns

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• Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

  

  David T. Kearns
  • Education
  • System
  • Monopoly