Sublime

In a recent book, he argues that many of the students currently enrolled are simply not capable of performing college-level work.

she found that twenty-five of the thirty participating universities realized significant gains in learning.

No one yet has managed to measure how well our professors teach or how much our students learn, let alone compare the results with those of other nations.

twenty pages in length during the entire year.

“[O]NE OF THE MOST sobering insights I had [was] how little intellectual life seemed to matter in college.”

“who can predict the impact of exponentiating technologies on social institutions, such as universities, corporations, or governments, as they continue to multiply in power a thousand-, a million-, and a billion-fold.”

Nevertheless, studying did not decline any more among students who worked than among those who didn’t.

Writings in scientific journals fare better; only 25 percent are reportedly never cited.

The second discovery of psychologists (including the Nobel Prize-winning Daniel Kahneman) is that people are often surprisingly bad judges of what will make them happy.14