Barack Obama Quotes

I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate an enormous diversity of students. I think all of those institutions have to define particular roles for themselves; they can't do everything at once.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

In the 1970s, what I, as a young foreign student studying in the United States, found most dynamic, exciting and impressive about this country is what much of the world continues to value most about the U.S. today: its open intellectual culture, its great universities, its capacity for discovery and innovation.

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

Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.

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

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.

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

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.

London's top colleges attract the best young talent from around the world; they're truly a national asset.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

Universities are the temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

Universities are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry

The advocates of the higher education of the Negro would be the last to deny the incompleteness and glaring defects of the present system: too many institutions have attempted to do college work, the work in some cases has not been thoroughly done, and quantity rather than quality has sometimes been sought. But all this can be said of higher education throughout the land.

EARLHAM COLLEGE Richmond, Indiana Is pleasantly situated one mile west of the city, in a beautiful and healthful locality, surrounded by ample lawns and play grounds. There are two regular course of study, of four years each--THE CLASSICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COURSE. The latter includes a more extended course in Natural Science, applied Mathematics, History, English Literature, and German. Among the special aims of the College may be named: the securing of thorough and substantial intellectual training, under such instruction and influence as will help the student in the formation of a character based on Christian principles. Both sexes attend and are accorded equal privileges.

The importance which I have attached to the establishment of a university within this District on a scale and for objects worthy of the American nation induces me to renew my recommendation of it to the favorable consideration of Congress.

The draft is the largest educational institutional in the world.

One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the ‘high school movement’ made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education

Today, and here for the first time in America, a Catholic college for the education of young ladies bestows the bachelor's degree...

Taxpayers, lawmakers and donors need to wake from the spell cast by American universities’ past glory. Only then can they summon the courage to withdraw funding and force the necessary change: replacing faux-academic political activists with real academic thinkers—people who care about original thought, not peddling an ideology.