Kay Ryan on the Wonderfulness of Community Colleges

July 12, 2010

I think community colleges are underrated and fantastic. I think more people should take advantage of them. I think Kay Ryan kind of rules for realizing this:

“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. I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, expect perhaps the bicycle.”

–Kay Ryan, U.S. Poet Laureate, quoted in Boneshaker, Issue 42-400.

(Lifted pretty much directly from Balloon Juice–thank you, mistermix.)