Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.
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.
I snap with my mom. It was a great way for me to see my dog when I was in college. We send selfies, too.
I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
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.
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 don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.
The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.
I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.
One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.
I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.
I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!
I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.
I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.
I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
