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(Today, schools restrict admissions for other reasons, too, most notably to maintain their image as a luxury brand.)

Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment

In particular, he noted how scholarly activity tends to distance professors from the undergraduate teaching and learning process.

Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out

“Professors who excel at promoting contemporaneous student achievement,” the economists wrote, “on average, harm the subsequent performance of their students in more advanced classes.”

David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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Alexis de Tocqueville, Harvey C. Mansfield, • Democracy in America

According to Page Smith, a longtime professor at UCLA, “the vast majority of the so-called research turned out in the modern university is essentially worthless.

Derek Bok • Higher Education in America

In the 20th century, America built the most capable knowledge-producing institutions in human history. In the past decade, they got stupider en masse. In his book The Constitution of Knowledge, Jonathan Rauch describes the historical breakthrough in which Western societies developed an “epistemic operating system”—that is, a set of institutio... See more

The Atlantic • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

Yet psychologists report that those who attach great importance to achieving wealth tend to suffer above-average unhappiness and disappointment.21

Derek Bok • The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being

is to diminish the number of lectures by (high-priced) professors while employing technology to allow more problem solving and active learning through the use of collaborating groups with graduate student tutors on hand to help when students get stuck.

Derek Bok • Higher Education in America

“Even the best universities aren’t developing critical intelligence,” he told me. “They aren’t giving students the tools to analyze the modern world, except in their area of specialization. Their education is too narrow.”