Birnbaum

Speaking of Higher Education Birnbaum

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. More than 1,600 quotations from over 650 authors are arranged both chronologically and by subject. The collection includes both statements that support higher education as well as those that criticize it.