Jill Biden Quotes

Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Community colleges are the way of the future.

People need to realize that community colleges really give you a good education. And they do - that's just a simple fact of it.

Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

I applied to Yale, and I got in.

School is very important to my family.

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

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 am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

I didn't go to college.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

I made good grades in school.

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

Integrated schools help students achieve academic success in the present and personal success in the future.

It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.

Being the first in my family to go to college, I believe, is my greatest accomplishment. It's not my accomplishment; it's my family's accomplishment.

We want every guy to graduate, and we work very hard on that.

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.