Lord Brougham Speech

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.

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

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

A man’s college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

My last year in high school, I worked at a bindery, side by side with grown-ups who had been there their entire lives. Knowing that I, as a 16-year-old, was getting the same income and doing the same work… it gave me respect for those workers. But it also gave me an understanding that more is needed for folks to be able to cobble together a decent life on minimum wage.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‘R’, except at the beginning of a word.

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.

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.

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.

School reports were always pretty bad. I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn’t try very hard.

Sometimes you get educated by being really bothered by things and you have to educate yourself on how to respond.

We seldom suffer from taking our subject of study too seriously, but we usually suffer when we take ourselves too seriously.

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.

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

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