Bobby Scott Quotes

I believe you cannot survive in this global economy without some form of postsecondary education.

The best jobs will go to the best educated people.

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

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

A generation ago, it wasn't necessary to have a college degree to get into the middle class …

During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.'

Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

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.

After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.

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

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Eventually, I want to finish my degree.

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.

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

I got alright GCSEs, but I was lost. I didn't know what to do, whether to continue with education, go to uni, go to art school - then again, I was like, 'Maybe I should just go and get a job, start early and make money.'

Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.

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

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

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