Arne Duncan Quotes About College

Quotes about: College

• Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

  Arne Duncan

  College, Pay, Used

  "Take politics out of student loans" by Arne Duncan, www.politico.com. June 10, 2012.

• The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'

  Arne Duncan

  Art, Believe, Carpe Diem

• The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.

  Arne Duncan

  Smart, School, College

• Far too many of our children today, our students, need remedial education. We have been lying to them. They're not really ready for college. That's not higher education's fault. That's our fault K-12.

  Arne Duncan

  Children, Lying, College

• The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

  Arne Duncan

  College, Degrees, Cost

  "Campus Protests Should Remind Us All of College’s Value" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2010.

• When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners coming in during the non-school hours to support and do enrichment activities, social services, then those students will beat the odds, will beat poverty, will beat violence in the community, will beat sometimes dysfunctional families, and be productive citizens long term. They will go to college.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, School, College

• At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

  Arne Duncan

  Opportunity, College, Risk

• State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.

  Arne Duncan

  Struggle, Cutting, College

  "Campus Protests Should Remind Us All of College’s Value" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2010.

• We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.

  Arne Duncan

  Dream, School, College

  "Lower Student Loan Interest Rates" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

• The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.

  Arne Duncan

  Art, College, Odds

• If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college problem. We need a big focus on early childhood education. Our early childhood education system is pretty good in this country. Not enough students have opportunity. And, very discouragingly, they lose their advantage because they go to poor schools after that. So, let's focus on our babies.

  Arne Duncan

  Country, Baby, School

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