Guest Column: Education is bigger than grades, it’s preparation for life
“As the saying goes, building strong children is easier — and perhaps less expensive — than repairing broken men and women,” Tracy Hall writes. (Jim Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Tracy D. Hall
Tracy D. Hall is president of Southwest Tennessee Community College.
“We cannot just wait, though, until students reach our doors as adults. We have to reach them earlier and younger; we cannot, however, do it alone.”
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