Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.
Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.
That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.
Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.