James E. Rogers Quotes

I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships.

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

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

If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.

So we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

It’s absolutely the case that the low cost college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid that I was able to receive made my education possible.

I didn't know Penn was an Ivy League school - I didn't know what the Ivy League was. When I got in, they sent me the package, and the tuition was my mother's salary for a year. My mom said, 'We can't afford it.' So I went to the library and found several scholarships and grants and was able to cover 90 percent of my education that way.

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

College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.

People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.

Nontraditional students often have the misconception that aid is intended only for high school students entering college. Luckily, that's not the case.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

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.

So you can go to college on Pell Grants - maybe I should not be telling anybody this because it's turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century.

Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.

Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.

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

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

I went to nine different universities and never paid a nickle of my own money. My wife got many scholarships. We are children of the United States.

It's never too early to start thinking about tuition.

My parents didn't pay for college because we all got scholarships.

I worked while in high school and college so that I could pay for school. I also had loans.

Better educating our college students on the risks of high student debt and helping them to find alternatives to taking out student loans would help make the difference to their financial future.