David Brooks Quotes

I got into Temple University on a track scholarship.

Colleges and universities divide families by income, providing access to the best schools for those with accumulated wealth. Low- or moderate-income families are relegated to the less prestigious schools where the resources for advancement are fewer than those provided at better financed schools.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

I think higher education is over-regulated.

We have a government that boasts about free education. Those of us who have scratched below the surface know it is costing us by denying opportunities for others to attend college or university.

When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.

Access to a college degree is critical.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

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.

Colleges sort as much as they teach.

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? … Was it because our predecessors were thick? Does anybody really think that they didn't get what we had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? Of course not. It was because there was no platform upon which they could stand.

We're living in a world of piranha economics in regard to education.

Some men will be always able to pay more for their children's education than others; and that those children will, inevitably, win in the struggle of life.

Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

Only 28 percent of American adults have a college degree, but most of us in this group find ourselves in workplaces in social milieus where almost everybody has been to college. A social chasm is opening up between those in educated society and those in non-educated society, and you are beginning to see vast behavioral differences between the two groups.

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.

My mom never went to college, but for her own children, getting a great education was not an option.

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.

We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

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.

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

I graduated from the University of Whatever.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.