Jill Biden

I’ve seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.

Many of my students don’t know that I’m second lady of the United States… because, you know, it’s a community college.

Because of the flexibility that community colleges afford, many students do not have to choose between an education and fulfilling other responsibilities – they can do both.

Women who are interested in pursuing bachelor’s and master’s degrees – especially in STEM fields – benefit from starting at a community college. They offer an affordable education, with flexible schedules and degrees close to home.

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

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students – they work with all students.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

What is life but education, anyway?

For profit higher education is today a booming industry feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.

Most of all we need an education system which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify. It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modify, and at times reject, if necessary, the received wisdom of his elders.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

Studying in countries like China isn’t only about your prospects in the global marketplace. It’s not just about whether you can compete with your peers in other countries to make America stronger. It’s also about whether you can come together and work together with them to make our world stronger. It’s about the friendships you make, the bonds of trust you establish and the image of America that you project to the rest of the world.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

Many of my students don’t know that I’m second lady of the United States… because, you know, it’s a community college.

… because in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they chose to go to college.

That’s the way to study history-by noting evolutionary processes.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.