Student Exchange
262,416 American students studied outside the country in 2007-8. More than 140,000 of these are studying in Europe.
671,616 foreign students enrolled in American colleges in 2008-9. This figure rose to 723,277 in 2010-2011. The largest number, 157,558, came from China.
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“In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.”
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