This isn't higher education studying itself,

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

They drop out, they don't get a proper education, they often end up on the street, they end up in trouble with the law.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.