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“Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a…

— Chris Hedges

All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of…

— J. M. Coetzee

“Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds for advancement.…

— David Brooks

It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting…

— Vincent Massey

Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars.…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

— Hal Abelson

The professors - working steadily and systematically - have destroyed the university as a center of learning and have desolated higher education, which no…

— Charlie Sykes

Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate…

— Bill Gates

“The fate of the humanities faculty in the burgeoning world of for-profit higher education is easy to predict, but painful to contemplate. Universities that,…

— Frank Donoghue

I think the universities as we know them will be dead in a future years. I'd like to see them replaced by something better,…

— David Gelernter

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

One could argue that our national university system has become a de facto talent drain for much of the country. Many states and communities…

— Andrew Yang