I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
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.
I'd put the ninety-nine billion dollars - whatever it is - that's being appropriated for the Air Force and the Navy, and I'd put it into schools. I'd put it into traveling scholarships.
It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.
Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.
It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.
Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.
I couldn't afford to go to drama school in London. Then I met with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, and I fell in love with the city. It was one of the few schools that offered me a place. It didn't do me any harm.
I want every kid to go to college and be like a normal student. I want them to be able to go to a movie, go to a concert. I want them to be able to have that opportunity. But if you're paying kids, are you going to pay a lineman less than you're paying a quarterback? I don't know how to explain that stuff.
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.
Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.
I never did pageants as a kid, but when I got into high school, I did a couple that were tied to a sort of all-around academic student achievement program, something akin to Junior Miss, but not Junior Miss.
His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.
Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.
The West Virginia NASA Space Grant took me under their wing and taught me everything about applying for internships, scholarships, and performing research at the undergraduate level.
If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.
My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.
I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career.
Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.
The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke college student.
I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door to offer me admission, and it's so expensive in the U.S. If you join up for a period, the army will pay your school and provide a stipend.
