Education Industry Quotes

There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.

The explosive growth of the for-profit school industry has had disastrous effects on millions of Americans and our economy.

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

Dad is in commercial real estate. Mom is a writer and a retired teacher.

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

College has become a business, and because of that, it can be gamed.

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

The relationship between the HBCUs and the auto makers is historically really important.

In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.

The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.

Higher education is a business that doesn’t know it’s going out of business.