When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
- J.D. Deutschendorf
"Today, however, the credentialing provided by universities is becoming decoupled from the knowledge and skills acquired by students...While the “cost” of learning is falling dramatically, the cost of college continues to rise."
- J.D. Deutschendorf
"The days of jamming 500 students into lecture halls supervised by graduate students and charging them several hundred dollars per credit hour for the “privilege” of learning in this fashion may be numbered."
- J.D. Deutschendorf