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“There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.” quote by Derek Bok — Download Open image

“There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.”

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Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching…

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I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.

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As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

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“surveys show that over 90 percent of professors believe that their teaching is above average,”

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For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a…

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An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the…

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Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed,…

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I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and…

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I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

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There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

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Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to…

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Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

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That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

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It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a…

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America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,…

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[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left…

Abul A'la Maududi

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The law is like apparel, which alters with the time

John Dodderidge

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I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

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It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought…

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Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by…

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Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac.

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Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],…

Abraham Lincoln

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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

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A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece…

Thomas Jefferson

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