Education Quote by Charlie Sykes

Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students who are…

— Walter E. Williams

In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view,…

— Milton Friedman

Lower standards tell students that they don't need to work hard and leave more high school students unprepared for college and the workplace.

— Mercedes Schlapp

College has become unaffordable for most of the kids who attend, and, while most of the population won't ever graduate from college, our high…

— James Stone

It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as…

— Mitch Kapor

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college,…

— James S. Coleman

Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able…

— Derek Bok

“The phenomenon of relative deprivation applied to education is called—appropriately enough—the “Big Fish–Little Pond Effect.” The more elite an educational institution is, the worse…

— Malcolm Gladwell

To put it bluntly, the push for 'college for all' sets up students to fail.

— Charlie Sykes

Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to…

— Spiro T. Agnew

Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level.

— William A. Henry III

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of…

— Jane Jacobs