Thursday, February 11, 2010

On community colleges...

Grant McCracken quotes on his blog, Cultureby.com:

Perhaps as a reply to the TV show that now holds the community college up to ridicule, Kay Ryan, the US poet laureate, has this to say:
“I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly—and with very little financial encouragement—saving lives and minds,” said Ryan. “I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, with the possible exception of the bicycle.”


Reading that really made me smile...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

how hopeful is a bicycle?