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?
We are human behind and this part of our human nature that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands. In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, and that time I realized that education is very important, and education is the power for women. And that's why the terrorists are afraid of education. They do not want women to get education because then women will become more powerful.
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.
I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.
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