Clayton Christensen Quotes

I think everyone needs to focus on the quality of the undergraduate experience.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Higher education is now the business of delivering consumer satisfaction.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.

I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn.

It's impossible for any institution to compete unless you can afford world class faculty.

Our schools should be rewarding for all students.

If you can promise a vital and vibrant research environment as well as great students to your faculty, you can recruit some top faculty. The top faculty on your roster will then help you to attract further top students in your program.

I want to spend my time at colleges and universities.

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.

I support high academic standards. Period.

No state legislature ever built a great university.

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

I'd like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.

I do think that a school day that matches the work day makes a lot of difference for working families, but the big driver of this effort is education. Period. We have a lot of students not gaining the skills they need, and it is pretty clear that school does not offer enough time to get that job done.

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

At Reliance Foundation schools, we lay special emphasis on value-based education, sports, and overall development of students. That is why the teacher-students ratio is kept at a healthy 1:20 so that all children get proper attention in class.

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

Before all else, the modern university is a business selling a product.