"Not Everything That Can Be Counted Counts, and Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted"

"A capitalist society depends on a variety of institutions to provide a counterweight to the market and its focus on monetary gain. To prepare students for their roles as citizens, as friends, and above all to equip them for a life of intellectual richness—those are among the proper roles of college. Conveying marketable skills is a proper role as well. But to subordinate higher education to what can be quantified is to measure with a dangerously crooked yardstick."

Jerry Z. Muller at The Chronicle of Higher Education lambastes the "Tyranny of Metrics."