Assumption Quote by Ernest L. Boyer

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and…

— Derek Bok

In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all…

— Abraham Maslow

Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects…

— Alex Tabarrok

My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that…

— Louis Menand

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

College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, umless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by the common…

— Sai Baba

By allowing many adult learners to retrain and upskill throughout their careers, colleges provide expertise for key sectors.

— Layla Moran

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

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

We're holding colleges accountable. We're introducing gainful employment rules, which mean that you have to show the return on investment that students are getting…

— Miguel Cardona

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

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

— John Archibald Wheeler