"As of now, only 0.37 percent of GDP is spent on higher education. This has to increase if academic reforms are to take place."
UGC chairman Sukhdeo Thorat (Business Standard, June 8)
"The focus of the Indian government should be on science education in high schools. You just can’t talk about science and innovation. You’ve got to encourage kids outside of their restrictive curriculum in schools."
Nobel prize winning scientist Sydney Altman (The Hindu, June 8)
"Even with the good schools, we have got to pick up the pace, because the world has gotten competitive. The Chinese, the Indians, they are coming at us and they’re coming at us hard, and they’re hungry, and they’re really buckling down."
US President Barack Obama (Times of India, June 12)
"We are up against a person who says black is white and four equals five. He looks into the camera and lies with self-confidence."
Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Iranian presidential candidate, accusing the incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of lying about the state of Iran’s economy (Time, June 22)
"The right to education cannot mean the right to attend a government school where little teaching is done and students finish school functionally illiterate. This crime against children must be rectified by the new minister for human resource development, Kapil Sibal."
Editorial in The Economic Times (June 25)
"Sleepless nights over class X examinations are not needed. We will reform it and make the class X examination optional. We should not traumatise education. It is unacceptable."
Kapil Sibal, Union HRD minister, announcing the ministry’s ambitious 100-day plan in Delhi (June 26)
"The best question I’ve been asked in my meetings with students is: ‘What are we learning that is most wrong?’"
Investment guru Warren Buffet (Business Today, June 28)