Sal Khan Quotes

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

Students want free education because their parents are struggling. The fees of universities and technikons are too high.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Students can spend their money better than government can. It should not require a federal loan and decades of debt for students to get a college degree. Price limits access - plain and simple.

I believe that a university education should be free as it is unfair on people who cannot afford to pay for it.

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.

I want all tuition to stop growing.

So I think there's a potential to make tuition free at public universities as part as young people doing national service. I think that is the most realistic option.

I have a plan to make tuition debt-free for public colleges and universities.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

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

We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students.

Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not.

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I came out of Oxford with a debt of something like £200.

It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible.

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.