Jim Jeffords Quotes

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

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

When the federal government invests in education, it should support quality education and career readiness rather than institutions that make empty promises.

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.

When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by others - is trying to find how we can build better accountability, work to provide a level of education that prepares our children for the future.

Everybody has a way to get to college. You study in high school, you do your work. There are always grants or loans that can be available. I guarantee you - if you want it, you can get it. Don't close the door on yourself.

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

We need to increase education budgets.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.