Bars Quote by Jim Knight

The problem is that we are trying to prepare people for the new economy using a higher education system built for the old economy.…

— Marco Rubio

Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.

— Jim Gerlach

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

— Margaret Spellings

More and more job fields require some form of higher education, and the pressure is on for schools to adequately prepare our students to…

— Mercedes Schlapp

We have seen a shift in the focus of education before entering the workplace, with earning and learning the new norm.

— Esther McVey

The rapid deterioration of education has been recognized as a national problem for the past several years. Consequently, American businesses must meet the immediate…

— Gregory Balestrero

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

— Anonymous

To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give…

— Jennifer Granholm

“The current (educational) structure, which seeks low-cost uniformity that meets minimum standards, is killing our economy, our culture, and us.”

— Seth Godin

Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before.

— Kenneth Rogoff

We're going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there's been too much of this idea let's…

— James P. Hoffa

“Education has increasingly been reduced to job training, preparing young people not for responsible adulthood and citizenship but for expert servitude to the corporations.”

— Wendell Berry