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The 80 percent of American college students who currently attend nonselective institutions will have many more options, (Location 257)

The “liberal” arts were dubbed that in classical times because they were the necessary basis of knowledge for free men, as opposed to slaves. (Location 334)

Philosophy is subdivided into theory, practice, mechanics and logic. Theory divides into theology, physics and mathematics, this latter into arithmetic, music and geometry; practice has three subdivisions: a solitary, a private and a public part (Location 339)

“Useless”—or at least not immediately useful—knowledge is the real soul of a liberal education. (Location 692)

Our existing higher-education system, which ranks private above public, research university above teaching college, bachelor’s above associate’s degree, liberal arts above vocational and technical education, reinforces these historic inequities. (Location 728)

These days, high school grads have a much smaller edge over high school dropouts in the job market.16 (Location 860)

That’s like Weight Watchers advertising that they only take skinny people. (Location 916)

Virtual communities of practice are thriving on the Internet, among bloggers, gamers, designers, and programmers. These groups have little choice but to teach each other—information technology has been changing so fast for the past few decades that traditional schools and curricula can’t keep up. (Location 2379)