Lamar Alexander says: If only Jim would wear a plaid shirt in the out of doors and walk a mile with me in New Hampshire, I would make him the entire Dept. of Education--secretary and staff unto himself, one educational entity, moloch of the learning from sea to shining sea. Cut Washington indeed--a one man department! Jim is my man......

Rap star Coolio says: Jim who?

Sir George Solti says: He is an American, yes?

From his colleague Frank Murray: I thought Piaget was good--but, hoo!, this Jim Crouse can pour water from glass to glass quicker than that French guy and still tell you, in three or four languages at once, if things have been conserved. I would say he is at stage 1,037 of development. My god, they should have a Crouse Society. I would head it just like I did the Frog Society for the Study of Stages and Research without real data, or SSSRWRD for short.

Howard Stern says: I don't know about Jim, but #### get you big ratings, so Jim, you know, get those ratings up, man, up up away, man.

Luciano Pavarotti says: Ciao, bambino Jimo!

James Coleman says: Jim Crouse...more than a man, more than an academic, more than a regression equation...the only academic in America who is also a mutual fund: Jim Crouse Select Aggressive Income and Growth Fund Selfsame Incorporated.

Pat Buchanan says: Jim knows where I stand. I think he is a comatose, discount-shopping, PC using Mondale liberal caught in an Eastern time warp, but then this is America and we have room for anyone who likes that big neon dancing music like I do. I see him at the clubs all the time and we scowl at each other on the way to the bar.

Jim's mother says: Even if Jim was a serial killer, I know that he would be spending his time trying to educate the other prisoners.

Billy Joel says: I never went to Columbia University, I went to Columbia Records. Of course, it's Sony now, but anyway...if I went to Columbia University, I'd have wanted a teacher like Jim. When I was younger, I wanted to be a history teacher. I bet if I'd had a teacher like Jim, I wouldn't have wasted my time fighting (junior middleweight), waiting tables, playing in piano bars, and making records. I'd have gone right to college, graduated, and gone into oblivion. I might not have gone through my divorces, either. I just hope my daughter gets professors like Jim when she goes to college. I might even write a song about him!