Gina Raimondo Quotes

I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

I used to sit in bed at night and flip through design-school catalogs. I found out that Parsons accepted a small number of high school juniors, so I applied my sophomore year and got in.

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.

I'm not saying everyone must go to college. What I'm saying is that every student in Texas, no matter how poor, deserves options. They must be taught to believe they can and will graduate from high school with grades good enough to succeed in trade school, in community college, or in any university in America, including Harvard, Yale, UT or A&M.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

I want to see kids go to college more.

There's a lot of amazing people that don't get into college.

I just believe strongly that anybody who wants to pursue additional education after high school ought to be given that chance.

I think my parents did want me to go to university just in case, but neither my mum or dad went to uni, so they couldn't talk.

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.

In September of 1960, I was blessed - and I'm not saying blessed in the everyday religious way - when Temple University accepted me after scoring 500 on the SAT. I was 23 years old, and they put me in remedial. I was the happiest remedial person on earth.

I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.

My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.

My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

My public school teachers did a great job of saying, 'Check this out. You're qualified for this. You should explore these opportunities.' They're the ones who said, 'You know, apply to Harvard. You might be a good fit here.'

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

If I was going to go to college, I had to have a scholarship. By my sophomore year, it was evident golf was not going to be the path.