Kent McCord Quotes

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programs, or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

Kim Il Sung University should set an example for all other universities of the country to follow in introducing innovative teaching methods.

I think everyone needs to focus on the quality of the undergraduate experience.

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing the way in which they are trying to deliver the product, with more accountability, for a price.

I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

Colleges sort as much as they teach.

Under the old American system the whole body of students at a university were confined to a single course, for which the majority cared little and very many cared nothing, and, as a result, widespread idleness and dissipation were inevitable. Under the new system, presenting various courses, and especially courses in various sciences, appealing to different tastes and aims, the great majority of students are interested, and consequently indolence and dissipation have steadily diminished

Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.

The only solution to the education system is to find yourself.

Teachers know how to improve education.

It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

I want to spend my time at colleges and universities.

I strongly believe that more money needs to be spent in the classroom.

You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.

What we need is a strong education system that allows creativity to grow and encourages students to be interested in science and technology.

I returned to Pune in the 90s to do my MBA from the University of Pune as in that period there were not many MBA institutes in the city!

I'm not just a dumb basketball player who got lucky and graduated from college. My ratio for professor to student was nine-to-one so it wasn't like I wasn't going to class. I was going to class every day.