Marco Rubio Quotes

Students now see college more as a credentialing institution rather than an academic institution.

I think higher education is over-regulated.

Peres Fobes, Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, … proposes to exhibit a COURSE of LECTURES upon NATURAL PHILOSOPHY and ASTRONOMY ... illustrated by a Variety of curious and entertaining Experiments. ... The Course will consist of Twelve Lectures, two or three to be exhibited per Week, at the Philosophy-Room in College. The Price Twelve Shillings for the whole course, or One Shilling and Three Pence for a single Lecture

I want to spend my time at colleges and universities.

My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

Like patents - which also seek to protect the little guy - unions were started for all the right reasons. But like patents, they can be twisted into something that hurts innovation, competition, and ultimately consumers and the country as a whole.

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

Everybody agrees that you want competition. But you have to have rules of fair competition if you want to have competitors to enter the market.

In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.

Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

Higher education has never been economically self-supporting; it has hardly ever been fully organized from public funds; everywhere it has remained parasitic on the private munificence of wealthy persons. The peril is too obvious to need further enforcement: it is the hand of the prospective, the potential donor that fetters intellectual freedom in our colleges, and will do so more and more so long as the duty of organizing public higher education for a nation out of public funds fails of recognition..

Colleges and universities divide families by income, providing access to the best schools for those with accumulated wealth. Low- or moderate-income families are relegated to the less prestigious schools where the resources for advancement are fewer than those provided at better financed schools.

Colleges sort as much as they teach.

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.

College football promotes drinking, dishonesty, and neglect of academic work.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

Congress and the public don't seem to have noticed that, while largely ignoring our own students, we are putting our money and our best talent into training our economic competitors.

I went to nine different universities and never paid a nickle of my own money. My wife got many scholarships. We are children of the United States.

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

Before all else, the modern university is a business selling a product.

Higher education is now the business of delivering consumer satisfaction.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

When Harvard University opened its doors in 1636, there were already well-established Universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru.

EARLHAM COLLEGE Richmond, Indiana Is pleasantly situated one mile west of the city, in a beautiful and healthful locality, surrounded by ample lawns and play grounds. There are two regular course of study, of four years each--THE CLASSICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COURSE. The latter includes a more extended course in Natural Science, applied Mathematics, History, English Literature, and German. Among the special aims of the College may be named: the securing of thorough and substantial intellectual training, under such instruction and influence as will help the student in the formation of a character based on Christian principles. Both sexes attend and are accorded equal privileges.