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  • The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

    Art   Important   Needs  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.349, Routledge
  • It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.

    Heart   Skills   Training  
    Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.131, Lulu Press, Inc
  • A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think that it is an absolutely extraordinary and bold career move that Darwin has made in leaving the Orchestra and embarking on the trajectory of a solo performer/educator. And what a marvelous thing it is for Detroit to be able to welcome home a successful native son - one in whom the community can take pride, and one who will serve as an inspiration to a younger generation of aspiring performers eager to make their mark in the world.

  • The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living the life of the mind - yes, these formative and abiding principles of higher education in America had their first and firmest advocate, and their greatest embodiment, in a tall, fair-headed, friendly man who watched this university take form from the mountainside where he lived, the university whose founding he called a crowning achievement to along and well-spent life.

    Live Life   Men   Ideas  
    United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”
  • As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

  • This isn't higher education studying itself.

  • Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

    Color   People   Prison  
  • The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.

    betty friedan (1963). “the year's most controversial bestseller the feminine mystique”
  • It is no longer higher education, it is higher 'indoctrination '

  • What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

    Education   School   Mean  
  • The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.

  • California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.

  • Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the world’s systems) to allow you to do.

    William Deresiewicz (2015). “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
  • The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

  • We know that from the GI Bill after the Second World War, where Congress found that for every dollar we put in as taxpayers into free higher education for returning GIs, we got back $7 for every dollar invested. An enormous return on our money in public benefits and improved revenue.

    War   World   Gis  
    Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com
  • I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

    People   Needs   Done  
    Timothy Thomas Fortune, Seth Moglen (2007). “Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South”, Simon and Schuster
  • Far too many of our children today, our students, need remedial education. We have been lying to them. They're not really ready for college. That's not higher education's fault. That's our fault K-12.

  • Every person in this country who has the desire and ability should be able to get all the education they need regardless of the income of their family. This is not a radical idea. In Germany, Scandinavia and many other countries, higher education is either free or very inexpensive. We must do the same.

  • Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

    Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge”
  • I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.

  • The economy, virtually all the new income has gone to the top 10 percent, and we need to find those areas where we can actually make a change in that. And that includes enhancing manufacturing jobs in this country, it includes the ability to go to community college for free, it includes the ability to have debt-free higher education, it includes career technical education in our high schools. It also includes taking on the pharmaceutical companies on the extravagant prices that they`re charging for the drugs. Americans need to stay healthy.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.

  • Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

  • In the past, there has been a stigma surrounding community colleges, where they were seen as a less viable option because they are not four-year universities. I know differently and so do the millions of people across the country who have received an affordable, quality higher education at community college.

    Country   Past   College  
    Source: on.mtv.com
  • When women gain access to higher education and then suddenly start doing better at it than the men, that can really throw the prevailing social order out of balance. That's exactly what's happened in South Korea, which is a highly patriarchal society. They started educating women, and then they were no longer the women that society wants them to be. That caused a real cultural crisis.

    Real   Men   Balance  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.

    Years   Dollars   Tests  
  • This isn't higher education studying itself. There are a lot of higher education people here. But there are also people here who are directly involved in whether or not (the United States is) going to have the good jobs in the future.

  • Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

    Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.71, Grove Press
  • ... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.

    Sex   Past   Boys  
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.232, BIG BYTE BOOKS
  • We are moving in exactly the wrong direction in higher education. Forty years ago, tuition in some of the great American public universities and colleges was virtually free. Today, the cost is unaffordable for many working class families. Higher education must be a right for all - not just wealthy families.

    Moving   College   Years  
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