Adding Quote by Clayton M. Christensen

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programs, or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

— Clayton Christensen

There's a reasonable amount of traction in college education, particularly engineering, because quite a lot of that is privatized, so there is an incentive…

— Azim Premji

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

— Derek Bok

Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The collective benefits of higher education will not be asserted unless the public can be engaged in defining them. A student’s future returns on…

— Ellen Condliffe Lagemann

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

— P. J. O'Rourke

They wanted a great university without building a great university. They knew a lot about football, but not a lot about academia.

— Brad Carter

The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students…

— Derek Bok

I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate…

— Derek Bok

I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges,…

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

It fulfils the purpose of Universities if they can find out ways of achieving those feats which haven't been achieved till now.

— Narendra Modi

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the…

— Thomas Perez