Top 36 Quotes About Community Colleges
#1. I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love in that pot. If you're in a hurry,just eat your sandwich and go. Don't even start cooking, because you can't do anything well in a hurry. I love food. I love serving people. I love satisfying people.
Leah Chase
#2. Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
Vernon Howard
#3. I still remember my dismay in the summer of 2007 when - for the first time in the history of planet Earth - America's share of auto production dropped below 50 percent.
Seth Shostak
#4. When you stand in a traditional audience, you have a wall of amplified sound coming at you from one direction. Everyone's familiar with that.
Chris Milk
#5. With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
Barack Obama
#6. Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education,
Eduardo J. Padron
#7. What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.
Edmund Husserl
#8. It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it.
Katharine Hepburn
#9. I thought, I can't do advertising any more, so I was downloading all these PDF applications from community colleges. And I thought, I'll become a paramedic. I'll get a two-year associate degree, if I can get in.
Augusten Burroughs
#10. Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
Barack Obama
#11. Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.
Emanuel Cleaver
#12. People look at me like I'm crazy when I say that our greatest partnership here at Ohio State should be with the community colleges.
Gordon Gee
#13. I just hope you have as much fun letting it spin as I did putting it together.
Lenny Kaye
#14. Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.
Debra Dean
#15. One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students - they work with all students.
Jill Biden
#16. Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.
Robert Reich
#17. It is more likely that coaches have players go down in games they are losing than games they are winning.
George M. Gilbert
#18. 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.
Jill Biden
#19. Community colleges are popular among political leaders of both parties. But because of the lack of funding and a lack of direction, they have lost their critical edge in preparing workers for a 21st-century economy.
Nina Easton
#20. I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.
Jill Biden
#21. Guilt is really self- condemnation and self-invalidation of our worth and value as a human being.
David R. Hawkins
#22. It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.
Noam Chomsky
#23. The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.
Jennifer Granholm
#24. Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
Barbara Mikulski
#25. From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges.
Thomas Perez
#26. For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.
Ed Begley Jr.
#27. Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
Jack Paar
#28. I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
Barry Mann
#29. Effective campaigns must communicate the candidates' values and use issues symbolically - as indicative of their moral values and their trustworthiness. Recall
George Lakoff
#30. Tutors are usually shaggy, ill-groomed junior dons who smoke and drink to excess and never leave their rooms except for illicit sexual liaisons or to replenish their stocks of tobacco and spirits. A
Steven Pressfield
#31. 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.
Jill Biden
#32. So community colleges are accessible, they're available, they're affordable, and their curriculums don't get stuck. In other words, if there's a need for a certain kind of worker, I presume your curriculums evolved over time.
George W. Bush
#33. We are all called to be saints, St. Paul says, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the name. We might also get used to recognizing the fact that there is some of the saint in all of us.
Dorothy Day
#34. Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.
Thomas Perez
#35. If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate our souls as hermits. We do it through small groups and relationships and in social contexts.
David Brooks
#36. Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.
Jill Biden
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