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Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world.

College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest.

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

It seems everyone knows a college degree is important, but few have a plan to keep it affordable.

You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout to come to our college. You have to work with your hands. You have to have a dignity of labor. You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community and provide a service to the community. So we started the Barefoot College, and we redefined professionalism.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.