In the mid-nineteenth century Charles Deems was a Methodist minister concerned about the unchurched in New York City. He persuaded Commodore Vanderbilt to underwrite the effort. Vanderbilt bought Deems a church building for $50,000. That was a lot of money at that time. Vanderbilt deeded the church to Deems so that...

Phil J. Quigley is the chairman and CEO of a very large corporation, Pacific Telesis. But you will often find him in California classrooms. His company has spent 100 million dollars to wire California classrooms to the information superhighway. He goes to the schools talks not just with administrators and teacher, but with students...