Higher Education Quotes - Page 5

• Fifty years ago, great schools like the University of California and the City University of New York - as well as many state colleges - were tuition free. Today college is unaffordable for many working class families. For the sake of our economy and millions of Americans, we must make higher education more affordable.

  Bernie Sanders

  New York, School, College

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• The educational system in the US was a highly predictable victim of the neoliberal reaction, guided by the maxim of "private affluence and public squalor." Funding for public education has sharply declined. As higher education is driven to a business model in accord with neoliberal doctrine, administrative bureaucracy has sharply increased at the expense of faculty and students. Cost-cutting leads to hyper-exploitation of the more vulnerable, creating a new precariat of graduate students and adjuncts surviving on a bare pittance, replacing tenured faculty.

  Noam Chomsky

  Educational, Students, Graduates

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

  Donna Shalala

  Taken, School, Skills

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• In other countries, rich and poor, education remains substantially free, with educational standards that rank high in global comparisons. Even in the US, higher education was almost free during the economically successful years before the neoliberal reaction - and it was a much poorer country then. The GI bill provided free education to huge numbers of people - white men overwhelmingly - who would probably never have gone to college, a great benefit to them personally and to the whole society. Tuition at private colleges was far below today's exorbitant costs.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Educational, Successful

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Advice, Looks, Evidence

  "'I hope we'll achieve the political legitimacy of the games industry'". Interview with Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2009.

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• They're rights that should be endemic to any democracy. The right to a free quality education, from elementary school right through higher education. The right to have a decent social wage. The right to a decent job. Political rights; the right to vote. These are all parts of the social contract, from the New Deal onwards, that never went far enough.

  Henry Giroux

  School, Political, Democracy

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• Student debt in the US has exploded in the past decade. One of the reason is that the private costs of attending college have risen sharply, with public higher education funding having been cut sharply. Average public funding per student was 15 percent lower in 2015 than in 2008, and 20 percent lower than in 1990. The burden of the public funding cuts has been worsened by the stagnation of average family incomes. By 2014, this figure had nearly doubled, to 35 percent of median household income.

  Robert Pollin

  Cutting, Past, College

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When women gain access to higher education and then suddenly start doing better at it than the men, that can really throw the prevailing social order out of balance. That's exactly what's happened in South Korea, which is a highly patriarchal society. They started educating women, and then they were no longer the women that society wants them to be. That caused a real cultural crisis.

  Hanna Rosin

  Real, Men, Balance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  Gordon Gee

  Dream, Believe, Doors

  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• 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

  College, Ideas, Decision

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• Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

  Anne Campbell

  Cost, Students, Loan

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• I think there is a disrespect for the mind that Trump, for example, exemplifies. His is a kind of strategic thinking that's more about shrewdness than about intellect. His attack on "elites" is meant to rally his base to rebel against the powers that be - in Washington especially. I don't think he cares much about higher education per se; he just wants to demonstrate that learning isn't necessary for business or government. He wants to elevate mediocrity to a heroic virtue.

  Joan Wallach Scott

  Thinking, Disrespect, Mind

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Far too many of our children today, our students, need remedial education. We have been lying to them. They're not really ready for college. That's not higher education's fault. That's our fault K-12.

  Arne Duncan

  Children, Lying, College

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• The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education has been neglected. The oddity, by the way, is if you look at the contrast in India, there are some areas like Kerala where there's a long history of educational development.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Educational, Oddities

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think, again, on issues of energy, how are we going to fully utilize our energy resources in this country? What is the role of the federal government in higher education? What kind of justices would you appoint to the Supreme Court, not just because we have a vacancy now, but at least one or two potentially in the next four to eight years?

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Thinking, Eight

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a whole new literate public that's a consumer of literature, of news, of print, of, you know, opinion. And that's a bigger audience and much more diverse audience than it used to be.

  Louis Menand

  College, People, News

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• We're going to school for higher education in higher numbers, but the numbers still show we're not breaking though the glass ceiling. For every Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton there are millions of women stuck in cement on the floor that are not getting up.

  Carolyn Maloney

  School, Clinton, Stuck

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the issues I'm really happy about is that recently, Secretary Clinton and I worked out an agreement on higher education, making public colleges and universities tuition free for every family in America earning less than 125,000 bucks. Didn't go as far as I wanted. But that's 83 percent of the population in this country.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, College, Clinton

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• What is distinctive about the U.S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is public. It is now considered dangerous because it has the potential to function as a site where a culture of questioning can operate, the imagination can blossom, and difficult questions can be openly debated and critically engaged.

  Henry Giroux

  Difficult Questions, Imagination, Culture

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• The current siege on higher education, whether through defunding education, eliminating tenure, tying research to military needs, or imposing business models of efficiency and accountability, poses a dire threat not only to faculty and students who carry the mantle of university self-governance, but also to democracy itself.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, Accountability, Democracy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The economy, virtually all the new income has gone to the top 10 percent, and we need to find those areas where we can actually make a change in that. And that includes enhancing manufacturing jobs in this country, it includes the ability to go to community college for free, it includes the ability to have debt-free higher education, it includes career technical education in our high schools. It also includes taking on the pharmaceutical companies on the extravagant prices that they`re charging for the drugs. Americans need to stay healthy.

  Jeff Merkley

  Country, School, College

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• 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

  Jobs, College, Risk

  "Congress Must Act to Prevent Student Loan Rates From Doubling" by Mark Pocan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2013.

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• 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

  Education, School, Mean

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• I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today. If there's one thing I came out of Barnard with, because it was a women's college and a great institution of higher education, it was fearlessness.

  Anna Quindlen

  College, America, Today

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] support and fund projects that bring jobs, healthcare, and education to women and children. In addition, we award scholarships to women pursuing higher education in Afghanistan.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Jobs, Children, Awards

  "Geekdad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of the Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com.

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