American Quote by Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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

Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent…

— Paul Krugman

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense.…

— Sarah Vowell

Inna the school and the college and the institution. The curriculum that I get is European.

— Capleton

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

— Thomas Piketty

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather…

— Camille Paglia

I'm the product of the classical, old-fashioned European education that is broad-based. You want to get your degree in the world, you have to…

— Vaclav Smil

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

— Howard Gardner

It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to…

— Raymond Chandler

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher…

— Donna Shalala

For some reason, our culture is one that preaches that furthering your education is something that is always worth the price tag, and the…

— Kat Timpf

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when…

— Barack Obama