Academic Quote by Walter E. Williams

The dumbing down of elementary and secondary education has made its way to the collegiate level; too many unprepared students are admitted despite their…

— Charlie Sykes

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people…

— Robert Genn

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

— Eric Hoffer

Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars.…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have lower bar…

— Mary Kissel

“The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to…

— Bill Bryson

Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able…

— Derek Bok

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The professors - working steadily and systematically - have destroyed the university as a center of learning and have desolated higher education, which no…

— Charlie Sykes

Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

— Rick Warren

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of…

— Jane Jacobs

Underestimating grades has serious consequences for a student's choice of university, and their future.

— Angela Rayner