Debate Quote by Kirsten Powers

Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about…

— David M. Brown

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or…

— Mortimer Adler

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

I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate…

— Derek Bok

Higher education is supposed to be a valuable investment in your future.

— Miguel Cardona

So-called 'higher education' is a veritable magnet for second-raters and actively destructive parasites bent on promoting unsound ideas to the inexperienced and gullible. The…

— Doug Casey

“Better education leads to more opportunities in life. An investment in higher education puts you amongst future leaders that can enhance your thinking, and…

— Germany Kent

The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.

— Bill O'Reilly

“Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them (...) you bring them out triumphantly, and…

— Aldous Huxley

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to…

— Stanley Fish

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

— Mary Catherine Bateson

What you really want to do, the objective is to get as many students coming out of there thinking differently than they went in.

— Rush Limbaugh