William Julius Wilson Quotes

Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.

A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.

I've just got a real thirst for knowledge now, especially seeing how the world is, seeing how the disparity is with African American men, and I want to do something special. And getting a degree from Duke is special, especially coming from where I come from.

Oddly enough, Asians are a much smaller 'minority' than African Americans in this country. But because Asians are so successful, college admission officers don't feel sorry for them, so they are not a preferred 'minority.'

In this respect, higher education is now causing most of the growing inequality and strengthening class structure of the United States.

College education is the engine of social mobility in this country.

Today, and here for the first time in America, a Catholic college for the education of young ladies bestows the bachelor's degree...

Almost half of the Black young men in America are not employed. There are not that many lazy people in the entire country..

In the long run, a second class education always costs more money than a first class education.

It's been a while since I've studied: since high school. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.

I am the product of the American education system. It is a system that has always been on the lookout for bright boys and girls. It spotted me when I was 14, and I owe a tremendous debt to my alma mater.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

I'm all for education.

My mother fiercely valued education. She entered college the same year I did, in 1979, and graduated eight years later. She was a remarkable role model for all of us.

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Education was a big focus for me, before the show and during the show. I applied to four or five colleges and universities and got into three and was planning on going.

Television was essentially my college.

I had an excellent Ivy League education, and it gave me a long view of things.

Without an education, you won't have a future.

If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would be a noble thing.

I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels - I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.

Go to school and get your education and follow your dreams.

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn't send your kids here. My mother called around and found a school that was willing to give both me and my brother scholarship money. It's a classic story about black parents wanting more for their kids than they had for themselves.

I just wanted to have an education.