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Q:

You had a meeting of the Corporation yesterday?

Heiskell:

Yes. I've know Bill Bennett for years. He used to be the, the head of the National Endowment for the Humanities and we worked together very closely. He's very bright, but I can't say that Harvard always graduates the people with the greatest wisdom and judiciousness in the world, and he is a graduate of the Harvard Law School. Ever since he's been Secretary of Education he's been very good at grabbing headlines and he has a theory which some people share, though I don't and most of us in the Corporation don't. Derek does moreso than we do, Derek Bok. That somehow or the other, one should be able to measure the value of education. And he keeps harping on this.

Q:

Quantify it?

Heiskell:

You should be able to prove that education is worth so much if you're going to charge these astronomic fees. Cause he knows perfectly well that the astronomic fees have got nothing to do with it. Because in the first place, sixty percent of the students are on scholarship, grants, loan, aid, work aid. So that to complain about that round figure is sort of silly. I don't think that you can put a value on education because education cannot be measured separately from everything else that impacts on a young person. And therefore, you can't say, “Now all of this came before you went to college, and then college did this to him, and then his experience afterwards did





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