Affirming Quote by Mary Catherine Bateson

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

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer…

— John Adams

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

“Today our society places great emphasis on specialization and focus. Students used to go off to university with the idea of broadening themselves; now…

— Garry Kasparov

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

An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods and more, to build a…

— Ben Sasse

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

Any institutions' alumni are key to its growth. We are focused on giving a global experience to our students.

— Shiv Nadar

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

— Anonymous

Higher education should provide an environment to test new ideas, debate theories, encounter challenging information, and figure out what one believes.

— Kirsten Powers

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American…

— Donna Shalala

Higher educating is defaulting on its obligations to offer young people a quality and broad-based education. This is true in part because the liberal…

— Henry Giroux