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

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.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

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

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.

Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.

Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.

Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.

Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.

Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.

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.

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

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

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.

I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.

I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary and wage positions was approximately 3 per cent. Virtually no minority workers were employed on Harvard construction projects.

Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.

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.

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.

The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.

I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready to provide for our servicemembers who now defend our freedoms and our way of life.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.