Top 100 Quotes About Higher Education
#1. We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.
Bob Taft
#2. It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.
John Hoeven
#3. Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.
Geoff Mulgan
#4. With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.
Jennifer Granholm
#5. I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.
Timothy Thomas Fortune
#6. Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them.
David M. Brown
#7. Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.
Thomas Perez
#8. I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody.
Sebastian Thrun
#9. The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
Jodi Rell
#10. I lived in Wales back in 1982 and 1983. I studied journalism at South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education just off Newport Road in Cardiff.
Simon Fowler
#11. Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.
Bernie Sanders
#12. For more than 20 years, Camfed has supported a generation of African girls and women with access to secondary and higher education, employment opportunities, and, ultimately, into positions of leadership.
Ann Cotton
#13. It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.
Bertrand Russell
#14. Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.
Sebastian Thrun
#15. We must fundamentally restructure our student loan program. It makes no sense that students and their parents are forced to pay interest rates for higher education loans that are much higher than they pay for car loans or housing mortgages.
Bernie Sanders
#16. Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#17. The supernova is enabling a deeper revolution that is just beginning, spurred by learning platforms such as Udacity, edX, and Coursera, that will change the very metabolism and shape of higher education and, one hopes, lift the adaptability line in the way that
Thomas L. Friedman
#18. Those days are long gone. But our corporations haven't caught up with it. Our law firms, our higher education system, and our medical institutions haven't figured out how this family policy is going to work. Men are tired of the 80- to 100-hour work week as well.
Vicki Donlan
#19. The School of the Art Institute is an extraordinary teaching institution by the fact that it believes that active studio artists are good teachers. That may seem an obvious statement, but in higher education, it is often the student's course evaluations that win the day with administrators.
Michelle Grabner
#20. Career Education is one of the largest global providers in the higher education sector. We are projecting to be over $1.1 billion in revenue in 2003, which puts us number one in our sector for onsite education and number two for online education in terms of revenue.
John Larson
#21. To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.
Gordon Gee
#23. Spending $100 million on a fancy gym is completely unremarkable in contemporary American higher education. Yet $10 million for a really good online biology course that could serve millions of students is seen as an outlandish, unaffordable expense.
Kevin Carey
#24. This isn't higher education studying itself,
James Hunt
#25. Societies are preoccupied with just about everything other than making good people. For some, it is intelligence. Parents are often more concerned with their children's IQs than their children's characters. And many people confuse higher education with decency and moral insight.
Dennis Prager
#26. The strength of the American higher education system is that it is a multifaceted, multi-layered system, and that is what makes us very strong.
Gordon Gee
#27. The problem is that we are trying to prepare people for the new economy using a higher education system built for the old economy. As a result, many high-skilled, high-paying industries suffer from a shortage of labor, while too many low-paying industries suffer from a surplus.
Marco Rubio
#28. It is no longer higher education, it is higher 'indoctrination '
Dennis Prager
#29. Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.
Donna Shalala
#30. I think I can change things for the better in this country. I'm doing it now as well, in many areas, mostly in education, higher education and technological entrepreneurship. But I think I could do a lot more from a presidential position.
Dan Shechtman
#31. Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.
Kamila Shamsie
#32. The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.
Ron Kind
#33. There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.
Pallam Raju
#34. There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.
Camille Paglia
#35. Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.
Ken Starr
#36. So the economic benefit of higher education in arts subjects appears to be nil. In fact, it is a luxury in the sense that it costs money rather than yielding it. It is a luxury which is paid for out of general taxation, including taxation of the poor.
James Bartholomew
#37. When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
Rand Paul
#38. Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.
Umberto Eco
#39. I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.
Ric Keller
#40. We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.
Henry Giroux
#41. In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.
Stanley Fish
#42. What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.
Wendy Kopp
#44. They told us if they kill all the lions the wildlife will disappear, so now those who become warriors are those with higher education, not those who kill lions.
Malala Yousafzai
#45. My family didn't have time for me, so I decided to join the Suvorov military academy, which is in St. Petersburg. I spent two years there and studied general military science. At that point, once I graduated, I joined the Chernigov higher education pilot academy.
Roman Romanenko
#46. For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.
Joe Jamail
#47. In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.
Sebastian Thrun
#48. The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.
William Osler
#49. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Hundreds of thousands of bright, young, qualified people who want to go to college or get a higher education are unable to do so, not because they lack the ability but because they lack the money.
Bernie Sanders
#50. We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.
Jim Jeffords
#51. Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.
John Agyekum Kufuor
#52. Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
Charles Vest
#53. As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
Derek Bok
#54. Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away.
Charles Van Doren
#55. Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.
Oscar Wilde
#56. Higher education means conformity to the terms of salvation. It embraces the experience of daily looking unto Jesus, and of working together with Christ for the saving of the perishing.
Ellen G. White
#57. I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.
Robert Moses
#58. As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.
Henry Giroux
#59. Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.
Thomas Friedman
#60. Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
Margaret Spellings
#61. We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare, and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs.
Marco Rubio
#62. Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.
Vir Das
#63. We are a country that lacks riches. The Jewish brain, that's what we have. Everything that we've had and will have in this country is the direct and clear product of higher education. If we harm this system, we will drastically decline and cease to exist.
Aaron Ciechanover
#64. The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
Hank Johnson
#65. 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
#66. California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.
Molly Ivins
#67. In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.
Bobby Jindal
#68. Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
John Hannah
#69. In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.
Mike Rogers
#70. I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.
Steve Jobs
#71. Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.
Jeremy Corbyn
#72. If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
Alan Greenspan
#73. Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.
Anne Campbell
#74. Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.
Vince Cable
#75. This omission of Asian Americans from history can lead to Asian American students in college internalizing the belief that they have not contributed to and are not full members of society or higher education.
Samuel D. Museus
#76. There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.
Anne Campbell
#77. Already we're seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the past they would have stayed in the U.S. and built new companies here. We have to have immigration reform that allows talented foreigners to become Americans.
David Malpass
#78. Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#79. Refinancing won't fix everything that's broken with our [American] higher education system. We've got to bring down the cost of college. And we need more accountability for how schools spend federal dollars.
Elizabeth Warren
#80. If you're white and wealthy, Texas is a great place, however, no Texas governor Republican or Democrat is eager to raise taxes and without that you can't expand access to health care or decrease the cost of higher education.
Calvin Jillson
#81. But the very voices that cry hail to this good work are, strange to relate, largely silent or antagonistic to the higher education of the Negro.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#82. Horticulture ]10w]
I am an advocate of horticulture and higher-education for sluts.
Beryl Dov
#83. The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.
Erich Fromm
#84. When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
Nancy Gibbs
#85. Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education, privatize it, eliminate tenure, and define the working conditions of faculty to something resembling the labor practices of Walmart workers.
Henry Giroux
#86. English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
Mary Augusta Ward
#87. Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey
#88. The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
John Conyers
#89. I don't want to use higher education as an escape from responsibility, but I feel there is so much more awareness I should have before plunging onto the field of battle.
Sylvia Plath
#90. I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.
Walt Disney
#91. They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.
Michael N. Castle
#92. A preoccupation with theory has been a defensive response by academic biographers in this country, I submit, to the condescension of traditional humanists and social scientists pervading higher education for many years.
David Levering Lewis
#93. Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.
Charles B. Rangel
#94. By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.
Mark Pocan
#95. For the first time on Planet Earth (in 1964 America), a nation was made up of more college students than farmers. An unheard-of 42% of high school graduates sought higher education.
Rick Perlstein
#96. Increasing access to federal student loans has been a bipartisan effort in Washington, one that I have supported. But it has created what many experts believe is a bubble in higher education, not unlike the housing bubble that preceded the financial crisis.
Marco Rubio
#97. Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.
Peter Thiel
#98. Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.
Thad Cochran
#99. When an individual from underprivileged background gets higher education, he/she uplifts the entire family. 90% of students at Namal college are from underprivileged backgrounds. I look forward for your support in this noble cause
Imran Khan
#100. This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.
Bill Owens
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