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When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.

In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry.

I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree. I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today’s global economy without a college degree.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera

I don’t feel like we’re setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don’t want to set up an attitude where we’re telling people ‘You can’t listen to our music if you don’t have a college degree.

Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It’s time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.

I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today’s female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make the enterprise of educating yourself for a serious profession seem feasible.

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

My parents told me that education was the path to success – and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.

A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.

My formal education as an extension to my college degree in journalism was the time that I spent working with the student newspaper. I would argue that my greatest education occurred by working for the student newspaper. It wasn’t necessarily the classroom work that made my formal education special. It was the idea that I had the opportunity to practice it before I went into the real world.

The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the … most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD’s and MD’s. Couldn’t believe it.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

I really do put it on Bill Clinton’s presidency as the time when the Democrats became the party of the college degree as the key to success in life.

You know, you don’t have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don’t need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right jobs. And when I say ‘right people,’ I’m not talking about their college degree or work history; I’m talking about things like bearing – How does this person interact with other people? Can he or she talk to you and not tick you off?

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn’t going to be the vocation for me…too political not enough creative control. But I loved the craft and my father wanted me to get a college degree. Seemed natural to study what I loved and Marymount Manhattan has a wonderful theatre program, I highly recommend it! A lot of what I learned there I apply to my comicbook writing and pacing.

Just because I don’t have a college degree doesn’t mean I am not smart!

You didn’t need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

In my mother’s day, she didn’t go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.

All the kids that I grew up with, in an almost idyllic environment – I’ve got to tell you, it was so wonderful – they’ve gone on and they’re doctors and Ph.D.’s and everybody has a four-year college degree. None of our parents, I think, had a four-year degree.

People who don’t have the interest or aptitude for serious college studies at age 18 may find that later in life they do, but those who enroll just because they think that the mere possession of a college degree is the passport to success will just dig themselves a financial hole.

Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don’t have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak – there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.

I’ve seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.

I used to walk around saying that I’m just another black man without a college degree.

Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn’t have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees.

It’s not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It’s what you do with your life that counts.

In other words, the hidden subsidies [designed to help individuals seeking college degrees] are not helping those who most need help in getting a degree. It’s also helping lenders, by providing an incentive to borrow. So why not take that $22.75 billion or so that we’re already spending and putting it directly toward making public higher education free?

The NBA’s been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked….Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what?

The unemployment rate today for people with our-year college degrees is 4.1%, which is almost none. That’s people switching jobs basically. That tells you that education is the only way up and the only way out. If that is the fact, then we’ve got to get more of it for more people.