Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
If Tony Blair really wants to see a higher education sector that is thriving and growing then he should be releasing universities… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while in school and beyond. Students with a… — Amy Jo Martin Copy Share Image
A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions:… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The world needs real-world universities, 'doer' universities. We're going to set up one model of it in Ladakh. And if it is… — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
“Be he poor, be he friendless,here he may acquire distinction, the reward of merit alone. Knowledge to him will here unfold her… — Charles Nicholson Copy Share Image
Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Public universities play a major role in their local communities, serving a variety of needs in addition to their traditional academic roles. — Mike Parson Copy Share Image
I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge'… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
It is of course true that many of our universities are large and complex organisations, requiring highly skilled individuals to run them… — Jo Johnson Copy Share Image
“Our universities teach non-white, non-Christian, and female students to find offense everywhere. American students get degrees in Finding Offense.” — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I see no reason why there still are large lectures in universities throughout the world. When people gather, they should be interactive,… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
When you take the best of universities in the world, all of them have research and education contiguous; the person who teaches… — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think Caltech fills a unique role, and it's not a cheap one. Their small size allows them to do interdisciplinary work… — Gordon Moore Copy Share Image
Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute. — James E. Rogers Copy Share Image
I was horrified to visit our universities and find that at the Punjab Agriculture University or at the Animal and Husbandry University,… — Amarinder Singh Copy Share Image
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“For a world full of universities, brilliant people and clever corporations it sure is a pit of hell and sorrow for billions.… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
For most students at universities around the country, studying entrepreneurship is a pleasant intellectual diversion, not a professional choice, path, or commitment. — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and… — B. Carroll Reece Copy Share Image
There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
