Margaret Spellings Quotes

More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

Well... I graduated from the business school of Northumberland University in Newcastle.

It’s harder and harder to get a job if you just have a strong back. You need an education.

Students now see college more as a credentialing institution rather than an academic institution.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing, skilled and educated workforce, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. Americans with bachelor's degrees have half the unemployment rate of those with a high school degree.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.

I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

I wish I could have skipped college.

If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be competitive in this world. And you can't be competitive if you don't have a good education.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

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

We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.