As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve the quality of government, and overcome the problems of illiteracy, miseducation, and unemployment.

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.