Age Quote by Byron Donalds

Today, you have achieved something special, something only 92 percent of Americans your age will ever know: a college diploma. That’s right, with your…

— Conan O'Brien

Higher education is meant to provide economic opportunity to Americans - not provide unscrupulous companies the opportunity to syphon off billions in federal taxpayer…

— Lisa Madigan

More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth.…

— Mark Pocan

One thing that is clear to me: as a society, we put way too much emphasis on a slip of paper - that college…

— Trish Regan

Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany…

— Barack Obama

Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate…

— Bill Gates

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher…

— Donna Shalala

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when…

— Barack Obama

That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you…

— Jimmy Iovine

A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education.

— Dolly Parton

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

— Gordon Gee

We're going after these for-profit institutions preying on first-generation college kids and putting them in debt. And they don't even have the income after…

— Miguel Cardona