“ When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. Thomas Jefferson
“ What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (starting a career), Stephen Pinker’s cognitive purpose (acquiring information and learning how to thin… David Brooks
“ The colleges and other institutions of learning are going too far, in my opinion. I think 50% of those attending educational institutions, having the professions in view, would be better off with a co… Bill Dedman
“ Borrow money only for an education that will yield enough of a return in the job market to allow you to pay your loans back. Kevin Carey
“ 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… Kevin Carey
“ They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation. Rob Lowe
“ A boy, if he's lucky, discovers his limitations across a leisurely passage of years, with a self-awareness arriving slowly. That way, at least he has plenty of time to heroically imagine himself first… Ron Suskind
“ You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed for your illiteracy. M.F. Moonzajer
“ Professional learning does not advance… through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions Douglass B. Reeves
“ The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about?... Controversies about…teaching cannot be resolved without confronting problems about the nature of m… Reuben Hersh
“ Don’t care about day to day things, don’t care about the mundane, but care about what matters. Debasish Mridha
“ What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth? Daoud Hari
“ By the Middle Ages… the introduction of the Trivium was well-known: SÂDI, an educated black from Tombouctou, author of the well-known work entitled, ‘Tarikh es-Soudan’ cites amongst the subjects that… Cheikh Anta Diop
“ What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the young i… C.S. Lewis
“ By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you’ve already become part of the system. It’s how it works. Ingela Bohm
“ During the Government’s recent overhaul of GCSEs, I was asked to join a consultative group advising on the English Literature syllabus. It quickly became clear that the minister wanted to prescribe tw… Jonathan Bate
