Critical thinking Quote by Kenneth C. Griffin

“Unfortunately, the truth is that in universities the world over, the tremendous analytical power and insights of market economics are unappreciated. For whatever political…

— Henry Manne

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

— Robert Duvall

Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic,…

— Bernard Baruch

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

— Jim Harrison

But, before we in America critique East Asia, we must also recognize that we are - unfortunately - taking on some of the same…

— Henry Rosovsky

I think the universities have co-opted the intellectual, by and large. But there is an emerging intellectual set coming out of Washington think tanks…

— Richard Rodriguez

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

“According to one Harvard study, more students attended America’s elite universities from the top 1 per cent of income backgrounds than from the bottom…

— Edward Luce

I would not say that Harvard possesses any sort of absolute dominance. And I personally do not take the rankings of schools all that…

— Henry Rosovsky

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

— Robert M. Hutchins

“when I arrived at Stanford in 1985, economics, not computer science, was the most popular major. To most people on campus, the tech sector…

— Peter Thiel

I liked business studies and economics at school and it followed on from there.

— Chris Smalling