Quotes About Tuition

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

We deserve quality jobs that pay a living wage, lower college tuition, action on climate change, and comprehensive immigration reform.

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.

Tuition in the 1920s was $17 a semester;

You can't beat a good education!

If you just send me the tuition money for summer session, I'll . . ." "No." "What?" Clearly it had never occurred to him that his request might be refused.

You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.

When Hans asks for more volunteers, half a dozen people step eagerly forward, but I am not one of them. I tell myself it's because I should let the tuition-paying students, those who are here legitimately, get the experience, but the truth is that somewhere deep inside I don't want to be a party to this slaughter, that I feel somehow less culpable as an observer than as a participant. Nonsense, of course.

Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

It's good news that he is proposing to restore budget cuts that he made, but the reality is that he is still proposing a 4.5 percent increase in tuition that's above inflation.

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.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

I played college football for free. I had to pay to play, really.

Colleges take kids' money. It's that simple.

I have a serious concern about middle-class families being able to afford college.

I think our model is sustainable. If all schools operated like Liberty and charged what we charge, there wouldn't be a student loan problem in America.

Brooklyn Heights, where a frankly socialist ethos stood in bald contrast to soaring tuition

And now Rob was about to turn 5, she was thinking about elementary school, determined to send her son to a private school. That cost money. Not much, but not much was relative. She knew that the security required to afford tuition would be a stretch to maintain anywhere else except on Chapman Street.

The commuter college I went to in 1970 now charges tuition of $ 10,312 a year for in-state students—and that's cheaper than most state schools. (Just so we're all on the same page: my $ 50 tuition from 1970 works out to about $ 300 in 2016 dollars.)

Colleges prefer to enroll wealthy students because they know it's more likely that they'll pay for full tuition without needing financial aid. They're also more likely to have parents who will donate large sums of money to the school. When the privileged students graduate, they're expected to join the alumni association and also donate cash.

If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.

Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions?

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.