Mark C. Taylor: Graduate education is the Detroit of higher learning.
Martin Schwartz: Science makes me feel stupid too. It's just that I've gotten used to it.
Louis Menand: Getting a Ph.D. today means spending your 20’s in graduate school, plunging into debt, writing a dissertation no one will read – and becoming more narrow and more bitter each step of the way.
Nanochick: Defending my thesis ... on May day! W00t!
Marge: Bart, don't make fun of grad students! They just made a terrible life choice.
Chris Anderson: When I was at The Economist, there was a policy to rotate everyone every three years. The idea was that fresh eyes were more important than experience. "Foreign everywhere" was the mantra.
Jonah Lehrer: The baby brain is abuzz with activity, capable of learning astonishing amounts of information in a relatively short time. Unlike the adult mind, which restricts itself to a narrow slice of reality, babies can take in a much wider spectrum of sensation -- they are, in an important sense, more aware of the world than we are. Often they would feed morsels of brain to young children and elderly relatives.
Richard Sennett: It takes 10,000 hours of practice to become a skilled carpenter or musician -- but what makes a true master?
Malcolm Gladwell: Anyone can become an expert in anything by practicing for 10,000 hours.
End the University as We Know It | 
