next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). 
"Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in 
matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's 
and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to breaking down barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity" (
Goldie Blumenstyk (Chronicle of Higher Education): “Most important, he [Joe May, president of the Louisiana Community & Technical College system] said, community colleges could and should do more to improve service to their students on matters like advising and financial-aid counseling. For-profit colleges do that well, and even though they may be doing it as part of their ’sales’ strategy, he noted that ‘from a student’s point of view, it’s service.’ All of those services need not be so costly. One place to start, said Mr. May, is the college’s Web site, where right now, a lot of key information ‘is often buried.’ Colleges could also do more with online advising and telephone-based counseling. ‘Technology,’ said Mr. May, ‘can create a more level playing field.’” (“For-Profit Colleges Have Advantages, but Community Colleges Have Some, Too,” 7 Apr 2008)
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