Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.
Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.
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.
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.
I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.
I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Independent and impartial exercise of judicial authority is an essential aspect of a free society. Instead of safeguarding judges from political pressures, most election systems invite such influence.
There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.
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