Backbenchers Quote by Paul Keating

Getting a university education shouldn't be like buying a car, where money talks, so the rich get to buy a brand new shiny Ferrari…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

“Behind this public glorification of greed, three recent experimental research studies suggest that the academic discipline of economics encourages a culture of greed.”

— Vaddhaka Linn

“I try not to look like a university man here....My fellow-guests think of a university degree as a disgraceful preliminary to the blood-sucking life…

— Eilis Dillon

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people…

— Robert Genn

There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the classes. It…

— Oliver Stone

University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to…

— Baron Imbert Peter Imbert

“Having a Degree is only a ticket to the game. Entitlement is thinking you should automatically win without playing.”

— Nicky Verd

Our system of student finance has delivered the chance of a university education to vastly more people than ever before, and made it more…

— Nick Boles

“HIGHER EDUCATION TODAY is a good news-bad news story. The good news is that a university degree can provide a pass to all to…

— David Horowitz

We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.

— Paulo Coelho

Even if you can afford the price of college, you cannot afford a worthless degree.

— Lisa Madigan

The problem is the for-profit colleges. These guys are absolute criminals.

— John Layfield