What Is On My Mind: Tuition Rates on a Record High and Still Rising

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/more-than-just-grades-on-the-mind-of-college-students-27113790.html

Quotes

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow." -Anthony J. D'Angelo

"The student can be his own teacher, and correct his own faults." -John Collier

"The rapidly evolving global economy demands a dynamic and creative workforce. The arts and its related businesses are responsible for billions of dollars in cultural exports for this country. It is imperative that we continue to support the arts and arts education both on the national and local levels. The strength of every democracy is measured by its commitment to the arts.” –Charles Segars, CEO of Ovation

“We need people who think with the creative side of their brains—people who have played in a band, who have painted…it enhances symbiotic thinking capabilities, not always thinking in the same paradigm, learning how to kick-start a new idea, or how to get a job done better, less expensively.” –Annette Byrd, GlaxoSmithKline

“Arts education aids students in skills needed in the workplace: flexibility, the ability to solve problems and communicate, the ability to learn new skills, to be creative and innovative, and to strive for excellence.” – Joseph M. Calahan, Director of Cooperate Communications, Xerox Corporation

"Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture-- literally a vision--in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today." –Eugene Ferguson, Historian

“Man is unique not because he does science, and he is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind. “ -Jacob Bronowski, scientist, formerly of the Salk Institute

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Tuition Rates on a Record High and Still Rising

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