The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections.
People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.
People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.
If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.
College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.
Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.
Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one.
I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.
The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.
For me, and I've been on record saying it, let's create two leagues: one for players who want the college football experience, and another for those that want to get paid, have the NFL help fund it, whatever. Guys who don't want to go to school to get an education, let them go to work.
G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions.
Education around entrepreneurship should start early, at secondary level, and be very robust by college level.
Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans.
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 started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.
