Top 100 Quotes About Higher Education

#1. Assessment coordinators need to be knowledgeable about general higher education topics (e.g., student persistence, the cost of higher education, diversity, and student learning); they must also know how those play out at specific institutions.

Kimberly Yousey-Elsener

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#2. We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

Bob Taft

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#3. Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

Elie Wiesel

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#4. Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.

Todd Whitaker

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#5. This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.

David Ignatius

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#6. Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them ( ... ) you bring them out triumphantly, and feel you've clinched the argument with the mere magical sound of them. That's what comes of the higher education.

Aldous Huxley

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#7. Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

Christopher Dodd

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#8. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Laurence J. Peter

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#9. There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

David Puttnam

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#10. The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater.

John Katzman

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#11. Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities.

Maureen Corrigan

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#12. Higher education is a business that doesn't know it's going out of business.

Mark Cuban

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#13. When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.

Michael Joseph Brown

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#14. Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and diversity of global village we live in today.

Narendra Modi

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#15. The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

Jeff Bingaman

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#16. I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

Jim Breyer

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#17. By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.

Nancy Pelosi

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#18. There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.

Derek Bok

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#19. One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Chris Van Hollen

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#20. There are millions of women who are trapped in lower-paying jobs and don't have the skills for a higher-paying job, and don't have the money or the time to access the higher education that they need for a better job.

Marco Rubio

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#21. The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.

Wendy Kopp

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#22. 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 higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.

Donna Shalala

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#23. I think higher education is over-regulated.

Lamar Alexander

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#24. Which has left me with a healthy respect and fondness for higher education that those of my friends and family who attended universities were cured of long ago.

Neil Gaiman

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#25. During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.'

Jimmy Fallon

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#26. In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.

Sandra Oh

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#27. The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.

Betty Friedan

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#28. Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Angela Davis

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#29. Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.

Peter Thiel

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#30. You see, at Rugby I was rather a great man. There one had a share in the ruling of 300 boys, and a good deal of responsibility; but here one has only just to take care of oneself, and keep out of scrapes; and that's what I never could do.

Thomas Hughes

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#31. 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

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#32. If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.

Mary Antin

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#33. It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.

Wendy Kopp

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#34. 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

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#35. 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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#36. The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.

Jim Knight

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#37. 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

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#38. 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

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#40. State action is like love: If you have doubts that you are in it, you probably are not.

Peter F. Lake

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#41. 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

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#42. Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

Charles B. Rangel

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#43. 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

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#44. 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

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#45. 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

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#46. Google Apps for Education is a suite of applications intended to be helpful to higher level educational institutions, but in the long run, I think Google has a role to play in helping to assemble relevant content for classroom use.

Vint Cerf

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#47. Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons.

Vaclav Smil

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#48. The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

Clark Kerr

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

Gordon Gee

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#50. Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Derek Bok

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#51. Oxford was in love with the idea of Christian perfection.

Philip Zaleski

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#52. I studied international relations in England, and I wanted to pursue higher education and be able to analyze what was going on in Iran politically, not only in Iran, but in the Middle East.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

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#53. The very definition of what it means to be alone has changed. To be physically alone is still relatively easy, but many of us struggle daily to turn off e-mail, computers, or cell phones... Our students...find requests not to text during these activities strange, annoying, and downright silly.

Jose Antonio Bowen

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#54. Hardship in our present life is an atonement for sins committed in our previous existence, or the education necessary to prepare for a higher place in the life to come.

John Allyn

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#55. Single women that place high value on Higher Education are often the brunt of snide remarks and smearing put downs by less educated black man ... page 126

Deborrah Cooper

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#56. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, which was designed to ensure privacy and properly regulated access to student records, has become "the shield behind which higher education hides the academic corruption in college athletics.

Jay M Smith

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#57. But the higher our standard of living, the higher our levels of education, the further people will look around. And we can see which level of openness other societies enjoy. We are no different - we too want more freedom. The question is: How much freedom will be allowed?

Zhang Xin

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#58. I agree with the (Supreme Court's) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.

Clarence Thomas

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#59. Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

Aldous Huxley

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#60. Of course, three classes is full time, so they'd have to give me the benefits package which would kill them. Screw the adjuncts, right? We're the monks of higher education. How much do you make?

Wally Lamb

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#61. Trump University had neither a license nor a charter from New York State certifying it as an institution of higher education.

Eric Schneiderman

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#62. There was a time when bright people had few prospects for higher education and good jobs here. But that is changing. India is no longer seen as an undesirable place to work or pursue research.

Shashi Tharoor

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#63. The higher one's intelligence or education level, the less one is likely to be religious or hold "beliefs" of any kind.

Richard Dawkins

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#64. You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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#65. In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Albert Einstein

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#66. Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

Guy Finley

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#67. Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education ... Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and recommendations, but all will gain from this thoughtful, well-written, provocative volume. I highly recommend it.

David J. Skorton

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#68. For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Thomas Frank

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#69. Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined?

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#70. ORU is a daring new concept in higher education. It was planned to be from the beginning, one that would be able and willing to innovate change in all three basic aspects of your being - the intellectual, the physical and the spiritual.

Oral Roberts

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#71. For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

Clayton Christensen

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#72. It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.

Norman Cousins

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#73. 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

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#74. For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

Vince Cable

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#75. I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.

Ric Keller

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#76. Clinton understands that in a competitive global economy we need the best-educated workforce in the world. She and I worked together on a proposal that will revolutionize higher education in America.

Bernie Sanders

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#77. Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over the accreditation process to block innovative, low-cost competitors from entering the market.

Marco Rubio

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#78. Knowledge and education in the hands of one who claims no higher accountability or authority than one's own individuality is power in the hands of a fool.

Ravi Zacharias

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#79. Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.

Shelley Berkley

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#80. A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.

Muhammad Yunus

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#81. The naive idea that, through education, one can transmit culture to all of society is destroying 'higher culture', because the only way of achieving this universal democratization of culture is by impoverishing culture, making it ever more superficial.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

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#82. College towns [are] all the same in that way; same burger, different wrapper.

Sheri Webber

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#83. 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

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#84. We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.

Roy Romer

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#85. When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.

Andrea Jung

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#86. One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.

Nicholas Kristof

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#87. Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.

Ahmed Zewail

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#88. That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order." "What a task! He ought to have three heads.

Thomas Hughes

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#89. The counselor was a dour and distracted man who showed little obvious interest in college or higher education of any kind, particularly as it pertained to my son. He

Andrew Ferguson

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#90. Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.

James E. Rogers

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#91. Children born today-in both the industrialized world and developing countries-will live longer and be healthier, they will get more food, a better education, a higher standard of living, more leisure time and far more possibilities-without the global environment being destroyed.

Bjorn Lomborg

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#92. The process of truly learning is laborious, monotonous, and at times down right bitter and boring. Therefore, obtaining a truly higher education will require of you a determined mind and a will to stick and stay. In short, it will take discipline. But in the end, it will be worth it all.

Daniel Whyte III

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#93. I hope that here in America more and more the ideal of the well-trained and vigorous body will be maintained neck by neck with that of the well-trained and vigorous mind as the two coequal halves of the higher education for men and women alike.

William James

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#94. State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.

Arne Duncan

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#95. A PhD does not automatically denote wisdom. Merely perseverance.

J. Michael Adams

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#96. Many contemporary critics of higher education similarly posit a Golden Age; but no one knows when it was supposed to exist.

Mark C. Carnes

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#97. In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

Jack Steinberger

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#98. All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

Gary Johnson

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#99. You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

Bernie Sanders

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#100. The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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