Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.

My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

We're living in a world of piranha economics in regard to education.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

I studied international relations in England, and I wanted to pursue higher education and be able to analyze what was going on in Iran politically, not only in Iran, but in the Middle East.

High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life.

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.

If you owe $50,000 for your education, you are not going to be able to start a small business when you graduate.

Colleges and universities divide families by income, providing access to the best schools for those with accumulated wealth. Low- or moderate-income families are relegated to the less prestigious schools where the resources for advancement are fewer than those provided at better financed schools.

Your future should be determined by your dreams, not weighed down with debt.

In Latin America, no country is prouder of its legally obligatory admission-free school system than Argentina. Yet only one Argentinian of five thousand born into the lower half of the population gets as far as the university.

Congress and the public don't seem to have noticed that, while largely ignoring our own students, we are putting our money and our best talent into training our economic competitors.

... a threat to American education .... [Colleges would become] educational hobo jungles.

Higher education cannot be a luxury.

When English education was introduced in this country, the Mahomedans did not accept it… They did not accept English education and at the same time they were divorced from the culture which their fathers had advanced. The result was that whereas the Hindus got on in life, got into government employment, got many things which people value in life, the Mahomedans were left without it and gradually there came to be a sort of estrangement between the two nationalities

Let's say you work at a university or a college. You are a cog in the one of the great inequality producing machines this country has known.

Only 28 percent of American adults have a college degree, but most of us in this group find ourselves in workplaces in social milieus where almost everybody has been to college. A social chasm is opening up between those in educated society and those in non-educated society, and you are beginning to see vast behavioral differences between the two groups.