Alex Tabarrok Quotes

More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.

We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.

If you want to take gender studies, that’s fine, go to a private school. But I don’t want to subsidize that if that’s not going to get someone a job.”

Increasing education options will give students greater opportunities to succeed in the classroom and allow students to graduate with skill sets necessary to go to college or into a career.

Even if you can afford the price of college, you cannot afford a worthless degree.

This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.

You can't continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.

I am most interested in the outcomes at schools and school districts and ensuring that all kids are prepared for college and a career in the 21st-century job market.

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

I wish I could have skipped college.

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.

... a threat to American education .... [Colleges would become] educational hobo jungles.

Governor Romney, how many fewer college degrees would it take to make America more competitive?

The Department of Education's refusal to oversee and hold for-profit schools accountable is a government-made disaster, and American students and taxpayers should not have to pay for it.

There's probably people that go to Harvard and say, 'Listen, I went to Harvard. I got a great education, and I can't find a job, or I didn't become the success that I could have been.' Sure, I mean, you probably have that at every major university.

College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.

I've always cared about education, and I worked with Senator Schumer on making several thousand dollars of college tuition tax deductible. That will help a lot of your middle class families make college more affordable.

We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.