Quotes: Unfocused, Ego-Driven Ventures Undo & Discredit Education Investments

Time and again in education, big-name investors have launched companies with the broadest ambitions, only to be undone by more-focused players...The benefits of a national footprint are seldom as obvious. Yet it is national scale that many ventures have sought. That failure, repeated so consistently, has given credible fodder to people who resist the active participation of for-profit enterprises in the educational sphere.

 

Jonathan Knee in The Atlantic (Why For-Profit Education Fails)