Higher Education Quotes - Page 8

• We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

  Henry Giroux

  Needs, Trouble, Figures

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• Hillary Clinton and I have worked together on a higher education proposal which will guarantee free tuition in public colleges and universities for every family in this country making $125,000 a year or less. We're going to fight for paid family and medical leave. Those are the issues that the American people want to hear discussed, and I'm going to go around the country discussing them and making sure that Hillary Clinton is elected president.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Fighting, College

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders talked about free public higher education going forward, but not dealing with this burden of debt, which has really locked a generation into kind of a hopeless future right now.

  Jill Stein

  Generations, Debt, Hopeless

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Higher Education Industry is very analogous to the Newspaper industry. By the time they realize they need to change the costs to support their legacy infrastructure and costs will keep them from getting there.

  Mark Cuban

  Support, Legacy, Needs

  "MARK CUBAN: The Student Debt Crisis Is The Biggest Economic Problem In America". www.businessinsider.com. May 14, 2012.

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• Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

  Angela Davis

  Color, People, Prison

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

  Thomas Frank

  Today, Students, Desperate

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.13, MIT Press

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• 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.

  Jodi Rell

  Math, College, Years

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• We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

  Bob Taft

  Education, Class, Quality

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• ORU is a daring new concept in higher education. It was planned to be from the beginning, one that would be able and willing to innovate change in all three basic aspects of your being - the intellectual, the physical and the spiritual.

  Oral Roberts

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Would Be

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• 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.

  Thomas Perez

  Strong, Opportunity, College

  "Investing in Skills to Build a Secure Middle Class" by Thomas E. Perez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2014.

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• The highest result of education is tolerance.

  Helen Keller

  Forgiveness, Education, Teacher

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.

  Avery Brundage

  Sports, Eye, Games

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• The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

  Ron Kind

  Quality, Can Do, One Thing

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

  Albert Einstein

  Creative, Genius, Significant

  "Obituary for Emmy Noether". Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. May 5, 1935.

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