Education from the Top

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
- Barnaby C. Keeney, Brown University

I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
- Clark Kerr, University of California at Berkeley

Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
- David Pierpont Gardner, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.
- Derek Bethune, Harvard University

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.
- Leon Botstein, Bard College

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.
- Theodore M. Hesburgh, University of Notre Dame