Quotes about Higher education

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We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest diligence, humility, i — William F. Buckley Jr., God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'
Understanding proximate cause is also like understanding your mother: It can take years and then, just when you think yo — Peter F. Lake
Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very yo — Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order." "What a task! He ought to hav — Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford
Schools and universities are (as in a body) the noble and vital parts, which being vigorous and sound send good blood an — Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford
Education is political. — Noel Castree, Questioning Geography: Fundamental Debates
Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository — they are a crowd.
This is the generation that thinks of itself as global citizens but knows little about the world and acts locally. It is — Arthur Levine
Campuses are bubbles, artificial environments that insulate students from the life of the competitive marketplace. The m — Peter Augustine Lawler
College towns [are] all the same in that way; same burger, different wrapper. — Sheri Webber, Devil Went Down: And Hell Came Running
You see, at Rugby I was rather a great man. There one had a share in the ruling of 300 boys, and a good deal of responsi — Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford
[Professor Greene's] reaction to GAMAY, as published in the Yale Daily News, fairly took one's breath away. He fondled t — William F. Buckley Jr., God & Man At Yale
You can't continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation. — Mitt Romney
The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education. — Ron Kind
The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater. — John Katzman