“Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food…”— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, brainyquote.com
“If schools aim to boost students’ future income by teaching job skills, why do they entrust students’ education to people so detached from the real world?”— Bryan Caplan, theatlantic.com
“If I had a job offer that was decent, I’d drop grad school in a heartbeat. But I might try to educate myself while I was looking.”— Roger Ailes, gwfohio.org
“The student is put outside of society, on a campus. Furthermore he is excluded while being transmitted a knowledge traditional in nature, obsolete, 'academic' and not directly tied to the needs and problems of today.”— Michel Foucault, learningspaces.org
“The university is no doubt little different from those systems in so-called primitive societies in which the young men are kept outside the village during their adolescence, undergoing rituals of initiation which separate them and sever all contact between then: and real, active society”— Michel Foucault, learningspaces.org
“Immigrants were more educated than Americans in 26 states, and nearly a third of refugees have at least one degree”— The Economist, twitter.com
“I know what real radicals look like — and they did not go on to graduate school.”— Camille Paglia, gos.sbc.edu