Anne Campbell

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students – they work with all students.

Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the man who can’t read, he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things – the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Most of all we need an education system which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify. It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modify, and at times reject, if necessary, the received wisdom of his elders.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

That’s the way to study history-by noting evolutionary processes.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

Being a teacher is not what I do, it’s who I am.

Do not neglect your life skills, which should include a healthy dose of financial education.

The function of this school is custodial. It’s here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Education – lifelong education for everyone – from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers – is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

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.