Linda Brown

Student

“I’ll always come back to SMC. There are so many people here that I care about.”

“I’m a liberal arts major,” says Linda Brown with distinct pride. “I’m going to teach elementary school, get in on the ground floor and give kids some of the values that are disappearing in our society,” she says. “With the youngest children - that’s where it starts for all of us,” she continues. “And if we don’t have a good base in learning during our early years, we don’t really get much of a chance in life.” And Linda is improving her own chances constantly at SMC.

“I was in a jazz dance company in Hawaii for a long while,” says Linda, who came to L.A. to launch a show business career. “But then I became a mom and kind of retired. So teaching will be my second career.” As the single parent of a five-year-old, Linda has found a wealth of resources at SMC that have made “mom-ing” and studying manageble. “The people in the SMC children’s program are wonderful and have made my transition back to studying possible,” says Linda. “I network with a lot of the other parents, so we can swap kids whenever we need the extra time to study.”

Linda looks forward to the day she and her daughter will be doing homework together, even including the math: “My whole life I was terrified of math,” says Linda, “and then I met Terry Green. He’s the greatest teacher in the world and he showed me that I really could understand it all. I even find that I really enjoy math. And it’s Terry Green’s patience and quality that showed me the way. He’s someone,” she continues, “whom, when I’m a teacher, I plan to be like.”

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