Purpose Of Higher Education Quotes

#1. The end result is that there can be no more truth or goodness and no need or even ability to make tough choices. Where the purpose of higher education once was to enable the student to find truth, the modern university teaches that there is no truth, only 'lifestyle.

Allan Bloom

#2. Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

Mortimer Adler

#3. In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

H. G. Bissinger

#4. Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

Gordon Gee

#7. I bet you don't know what is the first thing Little Leaguers always ask me, 'How much money do you make?'

Rocky Bridges

#8. I made my first mix tape when I was 14. I used to play basketball and ride bikes, but I think I just latched onto music because I figured I could be really good at it on my own.

Wiz Khalifa

#9. The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal and social life that cannot be provided by the self-interest of economic enterprise or required by the mandate of political institutions.

Robert L. Payton

#10. TRYING TO FILL THE empty SPACE i don't know if I will ever understand this Ache. Perhaps it is simpley and completely Love and what HAPPENS. at the end. Loss November 17, early morning

Sabrina Ward Harrison

#11. Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. I wondered if a novel could have the power to make something so strange happen in actuality.

Elizabeth Kostova

#13. Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago ...

B. H. Roberts

#14. The very helplessness of the public which makes it necessary for them to consult the experts also makes it impossible for them to judge how expert they are.

Hugh Nibley