The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

This was not a turkey. Our College of Education has nearly 500 students, and our fall applications are up 50 percent. Summer enrollment is up 62 percent. ... We have really worked hard and we are graduating people. We are not losing people.

It's so important and valuable for them to see students of color being successful ... and getting a college education.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think.

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.

In most of these programs, ... education is completely subordinate to the demands of the sport.