... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [fo….

With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen ….

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I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that those issues mattered lot to me, and….

If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipl….

We were the ultimate consumers of the thing, and we thought, "Every college kid is going to go berserk. High school kids - it will introduce them to ….

Lee Roy was the best college linebacker - bar none. He would have made every tackle on every play if they had stayed in bounds..

These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or a….

Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin..

I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them..

I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured tha….

Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finish….

If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!".

I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway..

I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents..

Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over the accredita….

It's kind of hard to rally around a math class..

When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again..

When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at..

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college..