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Charles Vest

"Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life."

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"Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life."

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Akiroq Brost

"Every child must be taught how to think, read and write."

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Akiroq Brost

"Feeding the poor will not eradicate poverty, but feeding the mind with true education will."

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Akiroq Brost

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

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Akiroq Brost

"Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it."

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Akiroq Brost

"First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law."

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Akiroq Brost

"I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education."

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Akiroq Brost

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

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Akiroq Brost

"Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known."

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Akiroq Brost

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

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Akiroq Brost

"Segregation shaped me education liberated me."

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Charles Vest
"Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public."

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Charles Vest
"Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message."

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Charles Vest
"I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress."

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Charles Vest
"Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding."

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Charles Vest
"The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities."

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Charles Vest
"There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government."

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Charles Vest
"Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful."

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Charles Vest
"The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended."

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Charles Vest
"We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education."

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Charles Vest
"On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do."

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