This unique book offers quotations that reflect both historic and
current thinking in the field of higher education. These quotations are
enjoyable to read, useful to those who speak and write on the subject of
higher education, and illustrative of the enduring purposes of the
academic enterprise. This book will be of particular value to academic,
political, and journalistic practitioners who prepare speeches, position
papers, or news backgrounders for both professional and lay audiences,
as well as for scholars seeking citations to materials that are
otherwise difficult to locate. More than 1,600 quotations from over 650
authors are arranged both chronologically and by subject. This
arrangement offers readers the opportunity to trace how thinking has
changed, or how it has remained the same, during the 2000-year period
covered in this book. The collection includes both statements that
support higher education as well as those that criticize it. Many of the
quotations in this book were developed from original sources, which are
cited in detail for verification and further reading. The represented
authors range from academic leaders to social critics, U.S. presidents
to Russian revolutionaries, Roman poets to student radicals, John Donne
to Fats Domino. All of the authors are identified by professional
positions, years of birth, and, where applicable, year of death.