Quote of the Day (Niall Ferguson, on Improving High-School History)

“Here are three positive suggestions to make high-school history more engaging and thereby more memorable. First, replace those phone-book-size tomes with Web-enabled content. Second, make the new stuff more interactive. (There's solid evidence that well-designed games and simulations hugely improve learning.) And third, ask more exciting questions.”—Niall Ferguson, “How to Get Smart Again,” Newsweek, March 20, 2011