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 think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.
For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it's not the author's fault. It's yours.
I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother - my mother's mother - who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.
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