Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.
We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.
In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.
I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.
The essence of education is, in the words of William James, to teach a person what deserves to be valued, to impart ideals as well as knowledge, to cultivate in students the ability to distinguish the true and good from their counterfeits and the wis...
The habit of looking at life as a social relation — an affair of society — did no good. It cultivated a weakness which needed no cultivation. If it had helped to make men of the world, or give the manners and instincts of any profession — such ...
[America]'s higher education system is excellent, both in terms of quality and accessibility. Here anybody can go to college. Many countries simply can't accommodate many students. And by the way, most people who came here in the seventies came to ge...
When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
Annual state spending alone for prison facilities is now estimated at about $52 to $62 billion, the bulk of which is spent building new facilities; operating and maintaining more prisons; providing food and health care for prisoners; and administrati...
It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that ...
The question of how to spend my life, of what my life is for, is a question posed only to me, and I can no more delegate the responsibility for answering it than I can delegate the task of dying.
As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location.
