“In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.” YearsPurposeStudyIssuesFootballCollegeHigherArgumentPrimariesConvincingHigher EducationCollege Football Author:Buzz Bissinger
“And when your minister asks you for money for missionary purposes, tell him there are higher, and holier, and nobler missions to be performed at home. When he asks for colleges to educate ministers, tell him you must educate woman, that she may do away with the necessity of ministers, so that they may be able to go to some useful employment.” MayHomeAblePurposeAsksAtheismCollegeHigherMissionsPositive AtheismEmploymentMinistersEducateMissionary Author:Ernestine Rose
“The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.” FactsHelpingPurposePrinciplesInformationStudentsCollegeTheoryObviousAcquireJustificationCollege EducationGeneralization Author:Derek Bok
“The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.” MindPurposeEducationCollegeEducationalPrimariesPleasantLeisureGreat EducationCollege EducationGreat EducationalPurpose Of EducationLiberal EducationUniversity EducationPrimary Education Author:Sydney J. Harris
“Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.” StatesHelpingHomeKidsPurposeEconomyExampleCollegeAccountsFundCapitalistBank AccountsCapitalist Economy Author:Noam Chomsky
“In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my microcosm - as a writer and photographer for the band, particularly for the band director. My "specialness" was to produce something of value, not to look like something (with that different kind of "value"), so I was still fundamentally invisible, but had a significant purpose.” LooksKindMadeStillsDifferentPurposeValuesGirlSpecialProduceCollegeBandDirectorsDemandEssentialsPhotographerSignificantInvisibleDifferent KindsLike SomethingMicrocosmSpecialness Author:Cris Mazza
“The primary purpose of the Electoral College is to maintain the power of the states and to support the idea that the election is decided by the states. It's not decided by the general population, and it never was.” IdeasStatesPurposeSupportCollegeDecidedElectionPopulationPrimariesElectoral College Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Emily Dickinson did not like was one of the stated purposes of the college - to convert young women to the Christian cause, finding Christ as their personal savior. She was one of the students who were declared without hope.” ChristianYoungPurposeCausesChristStudentsCollegeFindingsSaviorYoung WomenEmilyWithout Hope Author:Christopher Benfey
“We've now got a group of young people in this country who for all practical purposes are American. They grew up here. They've gone to school here. They don't know anything other than being American kids. But their parents may have brought them here without all the proper paperwork - might have brought them here when they were three, might have brought them here when they were five. And so, lo and behold, by the time they finish school, and they're ready to go to college, they find out they can't go to college and, in fact, their status as Americans are threatened.” PeopleKnowsMayCountryFactsMightKidsSchoolYoungPurposeThreeParentGoneFiveGroupsCollegeReadyGrewGrew UpPracticalsThreatenedPaperwork Author:Barack Obama