We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the ethical issue of profiting from students' financial struggles.
Elizabeth Warren emphasizes the moral responsibility of educational institutions to prioritize the wellbeing of students over financial gain, especially in light of the burdens of student debt. She criticizes the system that allows banks to profit from these debts while students grapple with overwhelming financial challenges, suggesting that this is fundamentally unjust.
In practice
In a speech about educational reform, to highlight the importance of addressing student debt.
Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet - too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products.
There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of us. It's so pervasive that it's not even hidden.
Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.
Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors?
I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.
This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their specialties-for example, Huxley, Ostwald, Karl Ludwig, Virchow, Billroth, Jowett, William G. Sumner, Halsted and Osler-men who knew nothing whatever about the so-called science of pedagogy, and would have derided its alleged principles if they had heard them stated.
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.
There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.
I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
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