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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
• Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.
• Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more…
• Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity…
• An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance…
• I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.
• I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our…
• Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.
• There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
• The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.
• Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.
• Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

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