Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

Wisconsin is very proud of the career and technical college system that we have back home.

I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.

I didn't go to college.

Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.

When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.

I don't have a college degree.

I, for one, struggle a little bit with a $250,000 education for a philosophy degree. They are a wonderful people, but we can't employ philosophers in manufacturing in the United States. We need a one- or two-year technical add-on for a high school.

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.

From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges.

90% of the fastest growing jobs require some form of post-secondary education.

All so-called "higher" education, with the exception of medicine and the technical sciences leading to production, are Luxuries, not Necessaries.

There is still much work to be done to help our students secure good-paying jobs and achieve their ultimate goals, and in Congress, I'll continue to support Career and Technical Education programs.

It's important to invest in our kids who are going to go to college or community college or a trade school.

What we want is for our young people to be skilled.

Community colleges are the way of the future.

We need more partnerships like Vigor Industrial and Portland Community College where men and women in search of a career can get the training they need to get hired right out of school.

Working with a Republican co-sponsor, Rep. Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania, I introduced a bill to strengthen our nation's career and technical education programs and more closely align them with the needs of local businesses and industries.

If your route is that you are practically minded, and that is what presses your button, and you do an apprenticeship and you get a job that way, that is fantastic.

Yeah, my parents really valued education; they were both educators. But it was definitely true that I grew up in an area where a lot people didn't go to college. A lot of people did two years, a kind of terminal two years at community college.

Many people don't even know why they're going to college.

I do intend to achieve my education goals and obtain my college degree through distance programs.