It’s not nearly as dramatic as the time Tom Hanks outed his Oakland high school drama teacher from the Philadelphia Best Actor stage.
Still, the two-time Oscar winner’s New York Times Op Ed about the lasting value of a community college education is well worth reading. Mainly because it reminds just how effortlessly this guy can spin a tale.
Hanks comically remembers the flight-attendant-slash-fellow-student who gave him rides to class one week. He also outlines, in the shadow of President Obama’s proposal for two free community college years, some very specific examples of how he applied what he learned at Chabot College:
I produced the HBO miniseries John Adams with an outline format I learned from a pipe-smoking historian, James Coovelis, whose lectures were riveting.
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