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No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.

We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.

Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.

Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates.

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.