Universities perpetuate a misconception about an education — that it guarantees anything separated from the person who claims to have one. Many know a “Harvard Man” or a Wellesley Woman” who can’t tie his or her own shoes. Character, ability,…
Graduates – In a few months millions of people like you, full of hope and anticipation, will transition from high school to college. Privilege may have provided engaged deliberative parenting, quality primary and secondary educational opportunities, and you may have…
Threats to higher education come not primarily from shady lenders, crass bankers and bureaucrats interested in turning government-subsidized, student-borrowed, dollars into operating capital, elected officials who want to use educational systems for personal gain, but from a bevy of educational…
Students borrow too much. What’s worse, the institutions they borrow too much to attend, borrow too much. A ferocious cycle is created: endlessly optimistic and apparently never satisfied. “Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you…
The essence of training is the transfer of skills and abilities. The essence of education is human interaction between someone ignorant and someone expert in a field of knowledge yielding learner’s transformation. “Professors usually teach 12 hours, and are also…
Treat students with dignity and respect. Set high standards. Expect performance. Experienced, effective, teachers should meet students at “the door.” “Once they leave, they don’t come back. It’s more important to do better in your intro course than in your…
Every sector of the nation’s economy is in flux. Change breeds strength, but if pursued for its own sake may pervert primary purpose. Our universities should ask, “Who do we serve?” Statehouses, communities, and industry? Absolutely. But, the pinnacle of…
