While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.
When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
In my freshman and sophomore years of college, I read dozens of books by the great thinkers of Western civilization. From Plato to Nietzsche, Homer to Shakespeare - you name it, I read it. At times it drove me crazy - picture reading hundreds of page...
Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates fear to tackle. teachers who understand this fact can help a student read the books that educated the Founding Fath...
The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politic...
I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.
I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.
Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.
A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.
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.
I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.
