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3. In the United States, the political struggles of the 19th and 20th centuries that led to the birth of the great land grant universities culminated in universal access to higher education by the late 1900s.
   

4. At the end of the Second World War, the United States made a far- reaching and influential decision. This was the Veteran’s Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly called the GI Bill. The bill effectively made it possible for all returning service members to attend university. (Fenske, Besnette & Jordan, 2000, pp. 114–105). No longer was higher education a privilege of the fortunate few. While the promise of universal higher education was born in the great land grant universities, the fact that universities existed did not solve the challenge of enabling all individuals to attend them. The GI Bill and a host of successive measures made it possible for nearly any student to attend the universities built and developed with public funds. This, in turn, created rising expectations of access and knowledge, and it became a cornerstone of the coming knowledge economy. The relation between broad student participation in university life and the impact of higher education on the greater society is a central fact of academic life today (Ottinger, 2000). The result is visible in the shifting role of knowledge in modern industrial life. This, in turn, has brought about a powerful transition in every industrial democracy that strives to maintain its position relative to the other developed nations.
   Ken Friedman
   

5. If you actually ask what is the crucial thing that has motivated people to vote for politicians - who are in reality favoring the interest of a narrow economic elite over everybody else - the answer is race. You can sum up the political history of the United States to an almost freighting degree by five words: Southern whites started voting Republican. Some northern whites as well and race is really at the heart of what happened to American politics and of why we are so different from other Western countries.
   Paul Krugman on NPR interview 2007
   

6. What I learned is that design in the (tech world of Silicon) Valley is consensus-driven, and that isn't the best way for strong ideas to come out."
   Yves Béhar in October 2007 Fast Company article about his industrial design work and the importance of design for successful companies
   

7. I think (the computer) is used in the wrong way especially by designers. I think that the way that you use the computer is that you come up with a really good idea, figure it out on paper, and then you go to the computer. Because the problem with the computer is if you start drawing on it or start designing on it right away is that the computer only knows how to say yes or no. It is a very good tool for making a strait line. It is not a good tool for a crooked line. When you draw something (with a pencil) it is hard to tell what it is and is open to interpretation. (The computer) is just too precise a tool for general design or for creativity and I can always see the tracks of the computer in some of the bad (design) work I see. It‘s bad because they started on the computer.
   Tibor Kalman 1998
   

8. I've always felt the purpose of higher education, regardless of its focus, is not to produce skilled, head-down employees. But to teach students a methodology that allows them to keep learning after school, and then be critical of the world around them and self-reflective about the choices they make, no matter how large or small these choices might be. This has nothing to do with how hard someone works, how they handle that looming deadline, the amount of projects they juggle, or the size of their ambitions and the lengths they will go to achieving them. It's simply about stopping to look beyond these concerns every so often — to better our practices and to better design, surely, but to also better ourselves, and (dare I say) better this world.
   Eric Heiman 2007 in Design Observer article The Cult of ASAP comments section
   

9. Grades don’t matter. Your portfolio matters.
   No one asks about your grades in college at the company that hires you.
   Neville Brody Greece, 2007
   

10. Design is sometimes described as problem solving; in fact, it’s often just an ancient problem restated in a new form.
    Stephen Bayley from the Guardian Unlimited article My name is Stephen. I’m a design addict.
    

11. If design is the bling of capitalism, then (Michael) Beirut is the P. Diddy of design for saying so.
    Gong Szeto in Design Observer article You’re so Intelligent comments section
    

12. High degrees of specialization may be rendering us unable to see the connections between the things we design and their consequences as they ripple out into the biosphere and technosphere in ways we aren’t trained to see or may never fully understand. 
    Terry Irwin
    

13. If you dig a hole and it is in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn’t going to help.
    Seymour Chwast
    

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1. Plexus
   1. a network of nerves and blood vessels
   2. any complex structures containing an intricate network of parts