“For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.” TodayStudentsIndustryHigherProfitDesperateFeedingLoanHigher EducationStudent Loan Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler
“My worst job was packing animal feed in a warehouse in Gloucestershire when I was a student. It was a very strange environment. It was hung heavy with oat dust, the place was infested with mice, and everyone who worked there was over 60, and I was 18. It was crazy. Apologies to anyone who works in animal-feed packing industry and loves it.” JobsAnimalEnvironmentCrazyWorstStudentsStrangeIndustryAnd LoveHeavyDustApologyHungMicePackingWarehouse Author:Simon Pegg
“We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.” SchoolCoursesChallengesInspiringPayTeachTeacherStudentsWillingIndustryHigh SchoolRewardsMathAlternativesMath And ScienceScience Teacher Author:Mark Kennedy
“I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students in it [and] one professor, because I feel like in terms of this school, I was one of the few students lucky enough to break into the art industry or the contemporary art world.” PeopleWorldFeelsArtEnoughSchoolTermBreakSpecialStudentsIndustryLuckyCastsContemporaryProfessorsGraduatesArt WorldContemporary ArtGraduate StudentsAlma Mater Author:Kalup Linzy
“Your peers are people in the business who are going to push you forward. So I think it's one of the reasons that Syracuse students come out truly ready for the industry because we've been rubbing elbows with people who are likeminded and just as 'pushy' or as ready to go as we are.” PeopleThinkingReasonStudentsReadyIndustryPeersElbowsPushySyracuse Author:Mike Tirico
“I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak.” WritingIdeasWantedSpeakStudentsIndustryAppreciateProducersCadence Author:Dawn Angelique
“There's one other element I just want to be sure to mention here: that is that there are 43 million young people who are locked into predatory student loan debt for whom there is no way out in the foreseeable future given the economy that we have: this predatory Wall Street driven financialized low-wage service industry economy.” PeopleWayWantYoungGivenMillionsEconomyStreetsStudentsWallIndustryElementsLowsDebtDrivenLockedLoanPredatoryStudent LoanService Industry Author:Jill Stein