America Quote by Frederic Raphael

“I suppose people who graduate from very selective and expensive colleges, and receive immense reinforcement from colleagues who preceded them there, develop an inflated…

— James Kunstler

“Nowhere was the complacency of the establishment, with its blind faith in progress, more evident than in its attitude toward an elite degree: as…

— George Packer

Getting a university education shouldn't be like buying a car, where money talks, so the rich get to buy a brand new shiny Ferrari…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

The 'futures' and 'careers' for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers' paradise would…

— Mario Savio

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and…

— Harold Bloom

“The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck to starve,…

— Guy Davenport

As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in…

— Henry Giroux

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

— Arthur Ashe

This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions…

— David Ignatius