Quote by Nathaniel Popper

“When Nelson Rockefeller, governor of New York and one of the last of the WASP aristocrats, undertook a vast expansion of his state’s university…

— William Deresiewicz

“Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and…

— Barbara Mikulski

“the John M. Olin Foundation in 1953, Olin embarked on a radical new course. He began to fund an ambitious offensive to reorient the…

— Jane Mayer

“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

“since the AP curriculum was nationally standardized. If they wanted to turn the public schools into chain stores, it worked for him.”

— Lisa Scottoline

“He wanted a higher education!  ”

— Riley Weber

We were the first state in America to open our doors to publicly supported higher education. We had the foresight to create the Research…

— Roy Cooper

“only one law school, at the University of California in Los Angeles, turned the Olin funds away, arguing that by plying students with grant…

— Jane Mayer

“But when I roamed New York City, knowing so much and capable of speaking so nicely, and yet so lonely, and often hungry and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“For secretary of education there was Betsy DeVos, a fierce promoter of privatized schools and a wealthy lobbyist who raised ungodly amounts of money…

— Jared Yates Sexton

Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and recommendations, but…

— David J. Skorton