Top 151 Higher Education Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Higher Education Quotes from famous people such as Marco Rubio, Roy Cooper, Sebastian Thrun, Charles Vest, Jim Justice, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare, and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs.
Marco Rubio
We don’t want cost to be a barrier to good students getting a higher education.
Roy Cooper
Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world’s most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It’s so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.
Sebastian Thrun
Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
Charles Vest
Slashing budgets for our K-12 schools, our higher education institutions and our neediest residents simply isn’t the answer.
Jim Justice
As a first-generation college graduate, I know I would not have been able to open all the doors Morehouse College provided for me if it were not for the Higher Education Act of 1965.
Raphael Warnock
We were the first state in America to open our doors to publicly supported higher education. We had the foresight to create the Research Triangle Park. And through the efforts and sacrifices of all our citizens, we have built a state where anyone would be glad to raise a family.
Roy Cooper
We need to incentivize states across our country to spend on higher education and ensure that we go back to allowing people to go to college tuition-free.
Pramila Jayapal
I believe young people from working families should have access to debt-free education because I know from my own experience that a high-school degree is not always enough, and a higher education can change a life.
Jimmy Gomez
I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.
Ric Keller
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools – intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it – this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.
Ron Lewis
We are a country that lacks riches. The Jewish brain, that’s what we have. Everything that we’ve had and will have in this country is the direct and clear product of higher education. If we harm this system, we will drastically decline and cease to exist.
Aaron Ciechanover
Because if you don’t have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you’re not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.
Meg Whitman
There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.
Pallam Raju
Pell grants are critical tools for lower- and middle-income students to access higher education, and by expanding access to year-round courses, we can help non-traditional students complete their education sooner, allowing them to start their careers and pay off their loans.
Elise Stefanik
Indian higher education is completely regulated. It’s very difficult to start a private university. It’s very difficult for a foreign university to come to India. As a result of that, our higher education is simply not keeping pace with India’s demands. That is leading to a lot of problems which we need to address.
Nandan Nilekani
This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.
Bill Owens
It’s absolutely true we have to pay attention to whether low-income people of any race are able to access quality, higher education.
Maya Wiley
Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they’re ready for the workforce?
Daniel H. Pink
I think higher education is over-regulated.
Lamar Alexander
If you’re entering your first year of higher education, then you also need to prepare for an extreme lifestyle change. Your mom’s not there to wake you up for school.
Sean Evans
Jeb Bush is the foremost authority on education reform in the Republican Party, and I will look to reform the ballooning costs of our higher education system along the lines that he has advocated.
Ron DeSantis
Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.
Ron Lewis
Higher education is a cornerstone of our state’s future.
Michelle Lujan Grisham
Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.
Charles B. Rangel
You can’t continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation.
Mitt Romney
The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.
Bill O’Reilly
The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.
Bill O’Reilly
There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.
Derek Bok
Ensuring a better future for all South Africans will require increased access to higher education, a stronger and fairer labour market, deeper participation in regional markets, and a regulatory framework that fosters entrepreneurship and allows small businesses to thrive.
Jose Angel Gurria
We must work towards solutions that make housing, trans

We must work towards solutions that make housing, transportation, the workforce, and higher education more equitable.
Beto O’Rourke
Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.
Christopher Dodd
We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.
Larry Hogan
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body… is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Because I’ve never had any higher education of any sort, I’ve never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don’t.
Jeremy Corbyn
Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.
James E. Rogers
The graduate earnings premium, used by the Tories to justify many of their regressive higher education policies, is fast becoming a myth.
Angela Rayner
Our higher education admissions process is neither fair nor effective.
Angela Rayner
The prospect of ideological discrimination in higher education shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Will Cain
Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
Charles Vest
Wishful thinking did not give Oregonians the bottle bill. Wishful thinking did not give the public access to beaches. Nor can we expect wishful thinking to turn around a decades-long disinvestment in our higher education system.
Ted Wheeler
We are a country that lacks riches. The Jewish brain, that’s what we have. Everything that we’ve had and will have in this country is the direct and clear product of higher education. If we harm this system, we will drastically decline and cease to exist.
Aaron Ciechanover
Higher education should provide an environment to test new ideas, debate theories, encounter challenging information, and figure out what one believes.
Kirsten Powers
I think I can change things for the better in this country. I’m doing it now as well, in many areas, mostly in education, higher education and technological entrepreneurship. But I think I could do a lot more from a presidential position.
Dan Shechtman
In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that’s like a big no-no. I know my parents’ discouragement was for my own protection, and I’m really close to them now, but they didn’t understand that there is value in this. That’s because they didn’t know.
Sandra Oh
Higher education should provide an environment to test new ideas, debate theories, encounter challenging information, and figure out what one believes.
Kirsten Powers
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.
Margaret Spellings
When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
Nancy Gibbs
The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.
Ron Lewis