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My point is not to trash the university. It is indispensable. It is also unsustainable in its present form. The cost of higher

There were some warning signs. Consider McKinsey, which holds itself out as one of the world's leading repositories of knowledge on how to manage a business. They say they'll never grow their company by more than 25 percent per year, because otherwise it's just too hard to transmit the corporate culture. So if you're growing faster than 25 percent

Praise is an essential part of moral education. The best teachers are not necessarily those with a gift for instruction.

advantage of democracy is not, as has been sometimes asserted, that it protects the interests of the whole community, but simply that it protects those of the majority.

Par ailleurs, la direction de l’entreprise, où se prennent les décisions, nécessite, beaucoup plus que des techniciens, des économistes ou des énarques, des esprits formés à une connaissance pluridisciplinaire et à une pensée complexe (y compris la conscience de l’écologie de l’action et la pratique de la stratégie en situation aléatoire).

In a recent ranking compiled by a group of Chinese scholars, all but three of the twenty highest-rated universities in the world were located in the United States.

The measure of education should not be knowledge regurgitated, expertise applied, or money earned, but the testimony of lives well and fully lived.