Quote of the Day (Christopher Caldwell, on the Late Stanley Kaplan)

“Kaplan launched his tutoring service as a young man in his Brooklyn bedroom. He built it through post-examination pizza parties, at which he listened in on students’ descriptions of questions on the top-secret exams. By the time he sold it to the Washington Post in 1984 for $45m, it was a vast enterprise. It now includes an online law school and a range of programmes for all kinds of scholastic and professional examinations. In recent years its revenues have been more than $1bn. It is a larger part of the Washington Post Company than the Washington Post.”-- Christopher Caldwell, “The Opposite of Education,” The Financial Times, August 28, 2009