The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace.

- William A. Henry Iii

In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, o…

- William A. Henry Iii

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a c…

- William A. Henry Iii

The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding mor…

- William A. Henry Iii

Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level.

- William A. Henry Iii

It is a commonplace observation that liberals believe in the perfectibility of man while conservatives believe in the endurance of original sin. Supe…

- William A. Henry Iii

No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party tim…

- William A. Henry Iii

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

- William A. Henry Iii

Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

- William A. Henry Iii