#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

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

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

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#about #dorm #graduate #i #me

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#college #cover #graduate #his #intellectual

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#done #driver #ed #forget #got

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#cannot #degree #even #finger #invariably

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#bachelor #civil #degree #did #engineering

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#although #because #behind #being #chose