Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250 000 in Britain.

[I]t is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.