“From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure, thrills, and self-indulgence.” PeopleYearsSelfPhilosophyYoungFatherLeftGoalRealizingPleasureVirtueGenerationsCollegeIntegrityConceptsAdultsDestructionGradesFearfulHarvestFoundingIndulgenceOur Founding FathersMarxistYounger GenerationSelf IndulgenceGlorification Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?” IfsYearsStatesRealizingResultsNumbersMillionsEconomyCollegeDegreesPercentAdultsIncreaseAddBillionsIncomeArkansasCollege Degree Author:Mike Huckabee
“...a college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change.....what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.” YearsPersonsHas BeensSoulEndsHappensYoungCoursesProcessFourTeachingChangedCollegeAdultsYoung AdultAgentsFour YearsCollege Education Author:Leroy S Rouner
“Every extra year you spend in a better environment makes you more likely to go to college, less likely to have a teenage pregnancy, makes you earn more as an adult, makes you more likely to have a stable family situation, be married, for instance, when you're an adult.” YearsSituationEnvironmentCollegeMarriedAdultsInstanceExtrasPregnancyStableTeenageBeing MarriedTeenage Pregnancy Author:Raj Chetty
“I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will almost inevitably result in their making mistakes and misjudgments and otherwise acting badly.” BelieveYoungProcessResultsActingMistakeCollegeAdultsYoung AdultMaking MistakesActing Badly Author:Gene Weingarten
“I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living on student wages, then after I got my MA and started teaching, I lived on teacher's wages, which isn't much better.” LongPoorTeacherTeachingStudentsCollegeLong TimeAdultsWagesLiving OnCollege StudentsLife Living Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had Bush elected, 9/11, we were at war, so I was sort of having my political and spiritual awakening at the same time I was becoming an adult, and that's a lot of stuff at once. I became very focused on the state of the world, and I started studying that stuff more, and I just had a real identity crisis. I couldn't even really just study literature.” WorldWritingYearsWarRealStatesSpiritualPoliticalLiteratureStuffStudyIdentityCollegeCoupleBecomingAdultsCrisisFocusedAwakeningSpiritual AwakeningIdentity CrisisBecoming An Adult Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I've always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me Bobby, still does. But I have never introduced myself to anybody in my adult life in any way other than, "I'm Bob Knight."” WayDoeStillsNamesTeachingCollegeAdultsCoachesBobKnights Author:Bobby Knight
“We are watching people who've been educated in the public school system and in colleges for the last 25 or 30 years become adults. They're getting jobs as TV commentators and journalists and writers and editors and producers in the media. And we're simply seeing the product of what they've been taught. And they so hate what they've been told is America's history and past that they want everybody to know they disagree with it and they've got nothing to do with it, and they had nothing to do with it, and don't blame them.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsSchoolJobsLastsAmericaPastHateSeeingMediaTaughtCollegeTvsProductsAdultsBlameProducersEducatedJournalistEditorsDisagreePublic SchoolCommentatorsSchool System Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We lead the world in only 3 categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. Now none of this is the fault of 20 year old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world I don't know what the f...k you're talking about.” KnowsWorldYearsBelieveRealCountryNextAsksNumbersTalkingDoubtGenerationsWorstStudentsCollegeCitizensPeriodsMembersAdultsAngelFaultsSpendingDefenseCategoriesAlliesCollege StudentsDefense Spending Author:Aaron Sorkin
“You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult.” SchoolCollegeLike YouHigh SchoolAdultsShirtsTies Author:Ezra Koenig
“College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsMindLittlesCareBitsKnow HowInfluenceCollegeLittle BitUniqueAdultsTake CareExposedParentalTake Care Of YourselfGreat MindsParental Influence Author:Anne Hathaway