Top 1200 Higher Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

As the first member of my immediate family to graduate from college, making higher education more affordable and accessible is a top priority of mine.

California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.

To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

My grandfather was in the Indian Army, and my father started working to fund his own higher education and joined evening classes.

We must work towards solutions that make housing, transportation, the workforce, and higher education more equitable.

It's absolutely true we have to pay attention to whether low-income people of any race are able to access quality, higher education.

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

Higher education should provide an environment to test new ideas, debate theories, encounter challenging information, and figure out what one believes.

They're rights that should be endemic to any democracy. The right to a free quality education, from elementary school right through higher education. The right to have a decent social wage. The right to a decent job. Political rights; the right to vote. These are all parts of the social contract, from the New Deal onwards, that never went far enough.

Too many high-school graduates are reflexively going to college as it is, without a clue what they are doing there or how to take advantage of higher education.

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

To finally reform higher education, we should start by asking fundamental questions, such as, Why does it take four years to get a degree?

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.

Why would the moneyed be granted higher education and an intelligent student be deprived because his father has no money? This is, after all, a democracy.

The strength of the American higher education system is that it is a multifaceted, multi-layered system, and that is what makes us very strong.

In part, it's almost surely a failure of modern education, whether K through 12 or higher education, or really both. Barack Obama went to Ivy League institutions like Columbia, which are reputed to be among America's top colleges. And yet, this very recent product of those American institutions is not publicly articulating an appreciation of the American founding or the founders and their vision for America.

The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.

Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.

When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy of a nation. They should be criticizing the prioritizing of funds for military and prison expenditures over funds for higher education. And this argument should be made as a defense of education, as a crucial public good, and it should be taken seriously. But they aren't making these arguments.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

As a first-generation college student, I know the hurdles that far too many people face in accessing quality, affordable higher education.

We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.

In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.

A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.

We had early on women having the right to vote, then women in the workforce during WWII, just going back in history, and then we had the higher education of women, and then women more fully participating in the economy and in business, the professions, education, you name the subject... but the missing link has always been: is there quality, affordable healthcare for all women, regardless of what their family situation might be?

An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods and more, to build a community - and a culture.

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.

People in the precariat find themselves in the situation where the level of their education and qualifications is almost always higher than the sort of labour that they're going to be able to obtain.

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don’t spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won’t get higher student outcomes.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

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

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

The graduate earnings premium, used by the Tories to justify many of their regressive higher education policies, is fast becoming a myth.

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

There may be countries [where] there's no gender inequality in schooling, even in higher education, but [where there is] gender inequality in high business. Japan is a very good example of that. You might find cases in the United States where at one level women's equality has progressed tremendously. You don't have the kind of problem of higher women's mortality as you see in South Asia, North Africa, and East Asia, China, too, and yet for American women there are some fields in which equality hasn't yet come.

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Trump University had neither a license nor a charter from New York State certifying it as an institution of higher education.

General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of you, and if you keep on advancing you will find constantly higher ground all the way to the mountains.

Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire; this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us.

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

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

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.

It is our duty as legislators to protect the success of our students as they pursue higher education.