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.

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

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.

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.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

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.

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

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

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

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

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

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

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

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.

Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the man who can’t read, he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

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.

College is part of the American Dream. It shouldn’t be part of a financial nightmare for families.

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