Beauty Quote by Sal Khan

President tends to feel that he cannot go beyond what the public will support him in doing. So he tries not to decide what…

— Walter Millis

I think at a place like Harvard, our experience, I was involved with, at various stages, in trying to implement a new general education…

— Louis Menand

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Many university presidents assume the language and behavior of CEOs and in doing so they are completely reneging on the public mission of the…

— Henry Giroux

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

— John Archibald Wheeler

I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it…

— Alison Gopnik

A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He…

— Walter Kirn

Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It…

— Kent McCord

Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is…

— H. L. Mencken

The thing about education - and why I'm so passionate about the position and status of the university - is that it's supposed to…

— Joan Wallach Scott

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“every student should be asked ‘to choose a definite future course and to call a halt if he has been merely pleasantly drifting without…

— Napoleon Hill