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Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives. -- Mortimer Adler
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics. -- H. G. Bissinger
I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream. -- Gordon Gee

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