Accidents Quote by Abraham Flexner

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

— Edgar Friedenberg

Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not…

— Agnes Repplier

What is distinctive about the U.S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is public. It…

— Henry Giroux

The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of…

— Rick Perlstein

“We cannot know anything about the blessings and privileges we have as Americans, without becoming acquainted with the condition of other nations, this is…

— John Taylor

Many of these failures can be laid at the feet of the awful state of American higher education, and especially the way in which…

— Paul Kengor

“...the danger that American society as a whole will over-esteem intellect or assign it such a transcendent value as to displace other legitimate values…

— Richard Hofstadter

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple,…

— Chris Hayes

I think the institutions, principles, norms, and traditions that make the United States of America genuinely exceptional are at serious risk. It has been…

— Chris Sacca

The spirit of America is a spirit of heroism: risking for others even if the ante is your life, never being broken no matter…

— Brian Mast

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

— Noam Chomsky

The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to.

— Stephen Herbits