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We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.


Nigel Short


#britain #british #comes #compulsory #education

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.


Joseph Stiglitz


#basic elements #cry #educated #education #elements

...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art. “Imagine working for years to obtain a piece of paper we can hardly read ” Katherine joked. “And to officially declare you have talent ” Suzy returned.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#college-degree #credentials #degree #funny #humor

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.


Michael N. Castle


#african americans #backward #black #colleges #days

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.


Arthur Erickson


#course #fragmentation #our #systems #their

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.


Stanley Fish


#democracy #doing #learn #teach #universities

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.


Charles Vest


#both #congress #effectively #general #general public

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.


Jack Welch


#forever #hard #idea #keeps #now

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.


Orson Welles


#major #mud #pies #teach #today

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.


A. Bartlett Giamatti


#exchange #free #here #ideas #mediums






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