Jill Biden

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.

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

Being a teacher is not what I do, it’s who I am.

As a community college professor for over twenty years, I’ve seen the determination, resilience and dedication of countless students. Regardless of circumstances, they show up. They work hard. They believe anything is possible.

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

In the past, there has been a stigma surrounding community colleges, where they were seen as a less viable option because they are not four-year universities. I know differently and so do the millions of people across the country who have received an affordable, quality higher education at community college.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

[On school] Not only did I know that I wasn’t one of the smart kids in the class, but so did everyone else.

Education – lifelong education for everyone – from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers – is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

My first task is to help students reject 18 years of poor learning that teaches them that knowledge is a product rather than a process.

In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.

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

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.