#graduation

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#centuries #century #changes #conception #education

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she'd tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you're ever going to. Look around. It's all downhill from here. The rest of us will go a bit further, a steady job, a trip to Hawaii, or a move to Phoenix, Arizona, but out of fifteen hundred how many will do anything truly worthwhile, write a play, paint a painting that will hang in a gallery, find a cure for herpes? Two of us, maybe three? And how many will find true love? About the same. And enlightenment? Maybe one. The rest of us will make compromises, find excuses, someone or something to blame, and hold that over our hearts like a pendant on a chain. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#graduation #growth #insight #maturity #teenager

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#balloons #celebrate #children #die #graduated

When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first? ↗

— Bill Cosby

#humor #dreams

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. ↗

— Richard Halliburton

#direction #education #graduation #guts #humor

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#became #doing #few #few women #first

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#alternative #ask #change #change the world #degree

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.' ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#big #boy #decided #degree #famous

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#another #cannot #courses #degrees #difference

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. ↗

— David Eddings

#degree #had #happy #i #novel