Early Admission Programs Tend To

Efforts To Develop Critical Thinking Falter In Practice Because Too Many Professors Still Lecture To Passive Audiences Instead Of Challenging Students To Apply What They Have Learned To New Questions.

I Suspect That No Community Will Become Humane And Caring By Restricting What Its Members Can Say.

The College That Takes Students With Modest Entering Abilities And Improves Their Abilities Substantially Contributes More Than The School That Takes Very Bright Students And Helps Them Develop Only Modestly.

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.

Critics Of American Colleges Typically Attribute The Failings Of Undergraduate Education To A Tendency On The Part Of Professors To Neglect Their Teaching To Concentrate On Research. In Fact, The Evidence Does Not Support This Thesis, Except Perhaps In Major Research Universities.