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

Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.

There are many businesses that are born and die. A university is supposed to live forever.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

There's a reasonable amount of traction in college education, particularly engineering, because quite a lot of that is privatized, so there is an incentive to set up new colleges of reasonably high quality.

When people say that college isn't worthwhile and paying all this money isn't worthwhile, I really disagree. I think those experiences and those classes that may not necessarily seem applicable in the moment end up coming back to you time and time again.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.