10 years later

A few days ago, I posted about Barack Obama’s stance and voting record on higher education.

With my classes not starting until Janurary, I have some time to reflect on higher education in general and since I’m still in a political mood, thought I’d take a glance at what happened in higher education under George Bush.

• Tuition and fees increased an average of 35 percent nation wide at four-year schools.
• Bush promised to increase the Pell Grant in his 2000 campaign to $5,100, but it was Barack Obama who introduced the bill to increase it in 2005.

And now, some fun:

George W. Bush quotes about higher education.

“We’re going to have the best educated American people in the world.”

“Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children..”

“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.’‘

“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”

“Laura and I really don’t realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.”

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