Today, over half of Chinas undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of Americas undergraduates pursue these schools. – Cathy McMorris
We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers. – Cathy McMorris
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. – Cathy McMorris
When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point. – Cathy McMorris
Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science. – Jared Diamond