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The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.

We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.

I don't think we have a surplus of fine educators in this country that we can just start dropping them for no reason whatsoever.

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

We need more STEM grads, and we need to quit equipping our competitors.

Too many people go to university.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

I think higher education is over-regulated.

That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.