Higher Education Quotes
Higher Education Quote of the day
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.
Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.
There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.
In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.
The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.
Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.
Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.
Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.
It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.
Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.
See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.
Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.
Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.
California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.
In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.
The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.
By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.
The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.
In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.
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.
There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.
It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.
The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.
We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.
I agree with the (Supreme Court's) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.
The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment.
I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.
The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.
Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.
The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.
Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.