- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tuition Quotes
On paying for an education, and who can afford to.
These quotes track tuition as a moving, often unfair target — a public university that used to be affordable, and 'public schools' in wealthy neighborhoods where tuition is really hidden in the home price. More in the Education quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tuition fees have formed part of a full-frontal assault on the living standards of a generation battered by a housing crisis, stagnating wages and slashed services.
- Rising
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.
- Nov 07, 2020
If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020