Geoff Mulgan Quotes

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate an enormous diversity of students. I think all of those institutions have to define particular roles for themselves; they can't do everything at once.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

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

I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.

Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.

Our University is a state university. It belongs to the people of Wisconsin. The state was not made for the university. The university was established to serve the state.

The advocates of the higher education of the Negro would be the last to deny the incompleteness and glaring defects of the present system: too many institutions have attempted to do college work, the work in some cases has not been thoroughly done, and quantity rather than quality has sometimes been sought. But all this can be said of higher education throughout the land.

Los Angeles has all the ingredients of success... but we need to start with our education system.

Campuses of best universities of the world will be set up in Knowledge Park.

All this green stuff is great, it's great we don't have plastic bottles or plastic bags and all of that, but how about some great schools?

Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

We cannot build a prosperous state without good schools.

Universities are the temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

The importance which I have attached to the establishment of a university within this District on a scale and for objects worthy of the American nation induces me to renew my recommendation of it to the favorable consideration of Congress.

Today, and here for the first time in America, a Catholic college for the education of young ladies bestows the bachelor's degree...