Quote by Thomas Frank
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding o

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. – Thomas Frank

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Most of Roosevelts innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN. – Thomas Frank

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As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a Near Great even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. – Thomas Frank

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Acknowledging class was always difficult for New Democrats – it was second-wave, it was divisive – but 2008 made retro politics cool again. – Thomas Frank

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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. – Diogenes

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Education

One of the things thats great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making. – Sarah Jessica Parker

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The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. – Pierre Bourdieu

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Were first on executions. Were 49th in funding public education. Were in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and were winning. – Kinky Friedman

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Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. Its tightening the belt, its learning how to do more with less. Thats a reality today, and weve got to do that in order to get the private sector growing. – Eric Cantor

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