Michael N. Castle Quotes

The University of Houston is a program that should have national relevance.

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

I'd like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.

I could not agree more. The students of Delaware State often looked to the school as their chance, their hand up, their hope. And they gave their all.

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programs, or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

In the long run, a second class education always costs more money than a first class education.

Had Barack Obama been obliged to take his degree at the University of Akron, say, it is doubtful that his progress would have been remotely as stellar.

Maryland is one of the greatest schools that we have in this country.

The strength of the American higher education system is that it is a multifaceted, multi-layered system, and that is what makes us very strong.

I went to Dunbar High School, recognized as the best high school of the segregated era. The education enabled students from Dunbar to attend the best colleges and universities in the country.

I believe that the future is determined by the great public universities. They educate 80 percent of the students and make the American Dream available.

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.

I was good at math and science, and it was expected that I would attend the University of Washington in Seattle and become an engineer. But by the time I was seventeen, I was ready to leave home, a decision my parents agreed to support if I could obtain a scholarship. MIT did not grant me one, but the University of Chicago did.