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.
There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.
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.
There’s a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.
Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.
There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.