{"quotes":[{"text":"But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence it brings is a means and not an end. The end is what it does to the lives, life-chances and hopes of people. Look at London. Of course it matters to all of us that London's economy flourishes. But the test of the enormous wealth generated in patches of the capital is not that it contributed 20%-30% to Britain's GDP but how it affects the lives of the millions who live and work there. What kind of lives are available to them? Can they afford to live there? If they can't, it is not compensation that London is also a paradise for the ultra-rich. Can they get decently paid jobs or jobs at all? If they can't, don't brag about all those Michelin-starred restaurants and their self-dramatising chefs. Or schooling for children? Inadequate schools are not offset by the fact that London universities could field a football team of Nobel prize winners.","author":"Eric Hobsbawm","tags":["britain","capitalism","economics","education","london","morality","nobel-prize","politics","progressivism","universities","wealth"],"id":27090,"author_id":"Eric+Hobsbawm"},{"text":"As long as high schools strive to list the number of Ivy League schools their graduates attend and teachers pile on work without being trained to identify stress-related symptoms, I fear for our children’s health. I am not mollified by the alums of my daughter’s school who return to tell everyone that the rigor of high school prepared them for college, making their first year easier than they’d anticipated.If they make it that far.","author":"Candy Schulman","tags":["college","creativity","demands","depression","education","expectations","health","pressure","reform","sad-truth","school","schooling","society","standardized-testing","stress","suicide","testing","universities","university","work"],"id":50725,"author_id":"Candy+Schulman"},{"text":"Here's a resume of crucial knowledge you should have in today's world but universities are not providing: Financial - Not just on management, but also on how to profit, how to manage and control flows of income; Linguistic - In today's world, speaking only a language is prove of lack of education. Knowing two languages is a basic necessity, and knowing three languages is essential, while knowing four is merely the ideal situation. Which four languages? Chinese, English, Spanish, and another of your choice, just for fun; Intellectual - It's not about what you know; it’s all about how you think about what you know. Therefore, it's ridiculous to think that there’s only one answer and one way to examine our life. Most students are extremely dumb because they lack the ability to educate themselves, despite their certificates or where they’ve studied. They never read with an intention in mind. And as they graduate, they become completely futile as individuals. This situation is the same all over the world. Millions are graduating every year, without any significant knowledge to live with. Their books are often outdated once they graduate and they're unable to learn by themselves and develop the necessary skills to adjust to the economic society in which we live. Maybe they can keep a job for 3 or 5 years of their life, but then are surprised to lose it and never finding a suitable job again. The world is changing very fast and most people can’t or are unwilling to recognize this fact.","author":"Robin Sacredfire","tags":["chinese","college","entrepreneurship","knowledge","languages","teaching","universities"],"id":105924,"author_id":"Robin+Sacredfire"},{"text":"...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art. “Imagine working for years to obtain a piece of paper we can hardly read ” Katherine joked. “And to officially declare you have talent ” Suzy returned.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["college","college-degree","credentials","degree","funny","gadfly","humor","humour","qualifications","sad-but-true","satire","talent","talents","universities","university","university-of-life"],"id":170777,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["academia","academic","dinner","dinner-table","family","family-time","government","governments","humility","kitchen","kitchen-philosophy","kitchen-table","parliament","philosophical","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","simple-truths","simplicity","spending-time-with-family","table","true-wisdom","truth","universities","university","unpretentious","wisdom","wise-people","wise-words"],"id":196402,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["abode","abodes","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","atheism","atheist","atheists","bible","book","books","bookshop","bookshops","bookstore","bookstores","bookworm","bookworms","college","colleges","cook","cook-book","cook-books","education","employ","employment","essay","essays","fail","funny","god","hilarious","home","homes","house","houses","humor","humorous","humour","idiot-box","joke","jokes","knowledge","libraries","library","literature","marks","pass","pass-mark","please","quotations","quotes","reader","readers","reading","religion","satire","school","schooling","scripture","scriptures","study","studying","television","telly","tv","universities","university","verse"],"id":199828,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Just as a CEO could care less about pay equity, the university administrator is unconcerned with how many of her program graduates secure employment of any particular quality.","author":"Joseph Ohler","tags":["education","employment","pay-equity","unemployment","universities"],"id":201436,"author_id":"Joseph+Ohler"},{"text":"Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds for advancement. Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.","author":"David Brooks","tags":["ambition","college","education","maturation","universities"],"id":219737,"author_id":"David+Brooks"},{"text":"There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.","author":"Harold Bloom","tags":["academe","academia","academic","college","culture","economy","education","genius","humanities","literature","merit","sad-truth","scholar","schools","shakespeare","universities"],"id":230834,"author_id":"Harold+Bloom"},{"text":"Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adult","adults","age","aphorism","aphorisms","child","children","educate","education","erudite","erudition","humor","humour","ignorance","ignorant","kid","kids","know","knowledge","knowledgeable","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","satire","school","schools","universities","university"],"id":266609,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}