Jill Biden

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

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

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.

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.

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

Education can’t focus only on developing our wonderful brain. We also need warm-heartedness. This is my view.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

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.

The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.

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.

I was a great student. I was good at everything.

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

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I’ve dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half… I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop…. I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn’t do it for fifteen.

Learn something new every day.

What I’m learning is that there is so much to unlearn.

An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

I came in early every day for six months till I intercepted the letter from UCLA saying they’d never heard of me. I replaced it with a letter that said I’d graduated.

There is no education like adversity.