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“A particular focus of the business-education dialogue should be to more effectively leverage the value of the nation’s 1,200 community colleges. Whether serving as an educational “on-ramp” for first generation college-goers or low-wage/low-skill adults, offering cutting-edge occupational training, or working with businesses to provide continuing education and training for their employees, community colleges are the natural backbone of the nation’s workforce development efforts.24”
― John Dearie, Where the Jobs Are: Entrepreneurship and the Soul of the American Economy

“Peter Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal, has launched a movement to convince people to not go to college.3 It’s a waste of money. The return on investment isn’t there anymore. School has gotten too expensive. . . If writing [computer] code is your deal and you’re able to go to a trade school that enables you to write code, that’s far better than a computer science degree from a four-year college or university that looks great on paper, but doesn’t give you the skills you need when you graduate.”
― John Dearie, Where the Jobs Are: Entrepreneurship and the Soul of the American Economy