American Quote by John Updike

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

— Chris Rock

And my advice for college graduates is don't reflexively give money to your alma mater, something particular to Americans that I find extraordinary. Take…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Colleges are supposed to be the calm environment in which educated men and women determine what’s true and what’s false, and where they learn…

— Thomas M. Nichols

American universities are so expensive. My family couldn't afford to send me, so I took out student loans and had to pay my own…

— Pauline Chalamet

“As the economic writer Ben Casselman pointed out in 2016, most college applicants “never have to write a college entrance essay, pad a résumé…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“I'm on the New York State Council for the Arts now, and every so often some other member talks about sending notices to college…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It's kind of cool to see the different aspects of American culture on different college communities.

— Samantha Ponder

Preparing America's student loan crippled grads to enter a hopeless and crowded job market is no easy task, which is why we should show…

— Sean Evans

One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and that…

— Robert Dessaix

Colleges must do their part to keep costs down, and its our job to make sure they do.

— Barack Obama

“Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, which means…

— Terry Eagleton

“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of…

— C.S. Lewis