Milo Yiannopoulos Quotes

For the first time in American history, it's not clear whether or not it's smart for a 17-year-old to enroll in college. It absolutely depends on the debt load and the quality of the institution. That is a change from the way things always were and, frankly, the way things always should be. It should always be a good idea to go to college.

Kids should go to college, but they should go to the best school they can afford to get through with minimal or no debt. That might mean going to a community college or an inexpensive local state school. Whatever it takes.

If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

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, for one, struggle a little bit with a $250,000 education for a philosophy degree. They are a wonderful people, but we can't employ philosophers in manufacturing in the United States. We need a one- or two-year technical add-on for a high school.

I was a first-generation college student. This was supposed to be the ticket to prosperity. But it wasn't. I left college with a mountain of debt and no practical skills.

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.

I'm not terribly intelligent - I have no university degree, you know.

You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.

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.

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

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.

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.

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

I wish I could have skipped college.

If I was going to go to college, I had to have a scholarship. By my sophomore year, it was evident golf was not going to be the path.

When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.'

The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

If you owe $50,000 for your education, you are not going to be able to start a small business when you graduate.

I can't afford to send three kids to college and support four more on a Government salary.