June 5, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"Parents are stupid too; when you let an 18 year old make a decision to go $200,000 in debt to attend a certain school to get a PhD in German Polka History, which has no marketable skills in the marketplace, as a parent you've failed by allowing them to make that decision by themselves." Dave Ramsey

September 11, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"Med school is not exactly a cakewalk; there are people that into Med school that don't graduate." Dave Ramsey

March 14, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"I don't mind you spending that much on your education as long as you have the money but it's mythology that where you go to school causes you to succeed; there is absolutely no research to back up that aristocratic, snobbish, theory." Dave Ramsey

August 18, 2011 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"I have never hired a photographer, ever, that I checked his credentials and where he went to school or she went to school" Dave Ramsey

August 18, 2011 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"I do like you struggling to complete a goal and to put a bow on this section of your life and put a tied up bow on it, I like that; I would not go in debt to do that. If you can roll up your sleeves, work two jobs and struggle for a few more months just to complete that, there's a good thing inside your character to complete the goal" Dave Ramsey

February 23, 2011 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

“So you spend a 100 grand to get a $50,000 [teaching] job? Teach your students not to do that, OK?” Dave Ramsey

February 8, 2011 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

“Spending a 100 thousand bucks to get a degree to be a $30,000 social worker qualifies on the stupid scale” Dave Ramsey

December 20, 2010 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

“College is the weirdest thing that we purchase and there’s been several studies showing that it is one of the very few items that Americans purchase that they do not consider what they’re getting for what they pay” Dave Ramsey

November 26, 2010 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"There is no magic pill that says: if you go get a 4 year degree, you're going to become wealthy automatically because you have more knowledge" Dave Ramsey

November 25, 2010 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"You've got a family and you've got $90,000 in debt and you have already discovered that things don't always turn out the way you think with education; i.e., your wife works part-time after spending 90 grand to become a whatever" Dave Ramsey

November 11, 2010 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"You don't necessarily have to have a college degree to get a good job or to make money; lots of people make money without that" Dave Ramsey

November 10, 2010 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"You've got a mess on your hands; 200,000 freaking dollars of mess! and so don't be acting like this house is making some money. You guys aren't making any money, you got a mess to clean up here and so if I were in your shoes I would avoid Doc-Itis, which is as soon as you graduate from school you go buy a bunch of crap you can't afford to go with your big student loans" Dave Ramsey

November 2, 2010 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"I don't mind ladies with a lot of education being a stay at home mom; I mind them going $200,000 in debt to get that education and then going home" Dave Ramsey

October 26, 2010 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"The idea that you are gonna go $200,000 in student loan debt each and you are gonna come out of school with 400 or 500 thousand dollars in student loan debt makes me wanna puke, even if you are gonna be a doctor but here's some insight for you: not everyone graduates from medical school; not everyone that starts completes darling and you know what the ones that don't make it out have? A big student loan debt and not much of a career to pay the student loan with" Dave Ramsey

October 26, 2010 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"There's no such thing as a full ride to college; you have dorms, you have dorm food, you have other things to deal with. You can get tuition and books furnished but there is no such thing as they pay for the whole stinking thing and there's zero out of pocket...never seen one" Dave Ramsey

October 20, 2010 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"I want her to make a note to self: as a guidance counselor to guide people to not do what she has done; don't guide them to go $80,000 in debt to get a master's degree in a job field where nobody is hiring" Dave Ramsey

October 19, 2010 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"I got no use for full-time students while their parents are starving to death" Dave Ramsey

October 19, 2010 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"You don't go to school when the world is falling apart" Dave Ramsey

October 19, 2010 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"He can't go back to school; your home is in foreclosure, he's got a wife and a baby at home, they're getting ready to be homeless. This is not the time to go back to school, this is the time to earn some money" Dave Ramsey

October 4, 2010 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"College is very very important and yes, I teach that you ought to save and pay for some of or all of your kid's college, especially if that's a choice you agree with but it comes behind retirement investing because you are going to retire and if you don't take care of you, you're gonna vote some twit into office who thinks I ought to take care of you with my tax dollars because you were too irresponsible and you're so noble that you went on student loan debt at 68 years old" Dave Ramsey