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By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

Student loan debt is the reason I don't advise students who want to become entrepreneurs to apply to elite, expensive colleges. They can be as successful if they go to a relatively inexpensive public college.

I fear debt. I don't like being indebted to banks. I have a rule in life that I will get it when I can afford it.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.