Building Quote by David Brooks

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 are full of Knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in, the seniors take none away, and the knowledge there accumulates

— Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.

— Russell Smith

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort…

— Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is…

— Thomas Moore

Higher educating is defaulting on its obligations to offer young people a quality and broad-based education. This is true in part because the liberal…

— Henry Giroux

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and…

— Kurt Hahn

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

As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed…

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich countries, has become their…

— Ivan Illich

More people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational experience is not preparing…

— Matthew Kelly