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.

Women who earn a certificate or degree from a community college, especially in STEM-related field, will be ready to move into a good-paying job in the growing global economy. Community colleges also offer mentorship and support that goes far beyond the classroom.

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.

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.

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

Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.

Learn something new every day.

The biggest little thing for entrepreneurs is the lifelong commitment to education.

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.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

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

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

It doesn’t hurt to get more education.

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

[On his donation of $100 million to UCLA in 2012 adding to the $200 million he donated in 2002] The cost of a world-class medical education should not deter our future innovators, doctors and scientists from the path they hope to pursue. We need the students at this world-class institution to be driven by determination and the desire to do their best work and not by the fear of crushing debt. I hope in doing this that others will be inspired to do the same.

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

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things – the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

In addition to an education, kids were supposed to graduate with some basic values, self-discipline, and life skills. A little common sense wouldn’t hurt either. Our schools don’t teach that anymore, instead we’re more concerned about kids having self-esteem and feeling good about themselves than we are about preparing them for real life. The politically correct crowd has taken over our schools, and as a result we are failing our children.