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Community College Quotes
On the classes, careers, and second chances they open up.
These quotes describe community college as a genuine on-ramp: someone testing the waters after school, partnerships training people for real careers, and teachers who came up through community college before shaping their own students. Read more in Attending quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only went to college for one semester, community college outside of Dallas. I got to the end of that and said, 'I'm not doing this anymore,' and moved to L.A. and landed a job.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would certainly look at a proposal for tuition-free community college for two years if the students kept a certain high grade-point average.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to invest in our kids who are going to go to college or community college or a trade school.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough... No, I do not support the Dream Act.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was elected for the first time in '06 I'd never been elected to any body. City councils, school board, community college boards, trustee, water district trustee, class president, ASB president, senior class president - nothing. I was never elected to anything in my life.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need more partnerships like Vigor Industrial and Portland Community College where men and women in search of a career can get the training they need to get hired right out of school.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.
- Ahead
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did well were skipped ahead so that when they got to be juniors or seniors in high school they would be able to go to the local community college and take calculus and physics there. And I wasn't skipped ahead.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had gone to nursing school at Northampton Community College in my hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. And nursing didn't feel quite right, and an old boyfriend gave me a 35-millimeter camera just to play with. So, I took a darkroom class.
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- Nov 07, 2020