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

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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.

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.

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

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.