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Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.

~Dan Rather

Topics: Colleges Degree Dollars Few Hundred Like Low-Cost Month Network Online Own Pace Pay Students Work

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Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

~Dan Shechtman

Topics: Above Bar Colleges Department Electrical Engineering Get Go Good High Highest Materials Medicine Program Set Started Students Try Very Way Which Will

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I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.

~David Talbot

Topics: Colleges Get Got High High School Kicked Many Out School Very

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The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

~Dean Smith

Topics: Alcohol College Colleges Courage Forward Get Limit Presidents Rid Some Sports Step Step Forward You

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Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

~Dennis Prager

Topics: American Colleges Elementary Everything High High Schools Most Nearly Perspective Schools Significant Teach Universities

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In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

~Dennis Prager

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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.

~Derek Bok

Topics: Able Accomplish Analyzing Being Benefits Bring Clearly Colleges Complex Employers Enough Far Far Less Graduate Less Many Perform Problems Reason Satisfy Should Students Than Universities Well Well Enough Without Write

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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.

~Derek Bok

Topics: American Attribute Colleges Concentrate Critics Does Education Evidence Except Fact Failings In Fact Major Neglect Part Perhaps Professors Research Support Teaching Tendency Thesis Undergraduate Universities

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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.

~Derek Bok

Topics: Absorb Colleges Enjoyable Four Future Institution Life Make Merely Occupy Offer Preparation Should Student Years

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Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.

~Don Cheadle

Topics: Afford Avail Between Colleges Ever Family Friends Friends And Family Gap Healthcare Homes Looking Losing Many Out Scratching Somewhere South Themselves Widening

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