Education Cost Quotes

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

I don't come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.

If You Think Education Is Expensive, Wait Until You See How Much Ignorance Costs in the 21st Century.

In the long run, a second class education always costs more money than a first class education.

The only thing wrong with student loans is that you have to pay them back.

Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.

Giving education away for free is a really good idea, but it can't be the future of education. There has to be a business model around it that actually works.

Government's running the student loan program; what in the world could be wrong with it? If the government's running it, if Obama's taken it over, and he's got a lot of compassion, a big heart, loves people, what could possibly be wrong with it? And then the subject of tuition came up, and how come tuition never gets cut? Why does tuition always go up? Guarantee, folks, when you subsidize something, if you run a university and the government's gonna subsidize parts of your operation, why in the world should you cut anything?

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.

Everyday people are graduating from universities with crippling debt, stifling their opportunity for financial mobility, that is what's broken with this country.

It is unconscionable that a rich country like the United States has made access to higher education so difficult for those at the bottom and middle.

I was a first-generation college student. This was supposed to be the ticket to prosperity. But it wasn't. I left college with a mountain of debt and no practical skills.

If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

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

If you’re not familiar with it, a college degree is a thing that we tell our kids to buy with money they don’t have, in hopes that it will help them make money they might earn, which will give them the ability to pay back the money they spent in order to make the money they’re paying it back with.

Many argue that graduates earn a 'premium' because of their education, and should have to pay their way. I agree, and that's why I've always advocated a progressive taxation system - so if people do receive large salaries, they pay more income tax.

Fifty years ago, great schools like the University of California and the City University of New York - as well as many state colleges - were tuition free. Today college is unaffordable for many working class families. For the sake of our economy and millions of Americans, we must make higher education more affordable.

The cost of a university education is risen faster than the rate of inflation for decades.

I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.

You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.

It started with Ronald Reagan, when he took away the financing to the California universities. It used to be cheap to send your kids to the UCs. They'd call it an investment, because the more you educate people, the more they'll pay in taxes, because they'll get better jobs. But Reagan said, "No, it's a cost, so you're going to have to pay the cost." So now people can't afford to get an education. Anyway, I don't want to get too political, but yeah, I think the spirit of this country is finally coming back, and hopefully it will triumph.

Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.