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“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Plato
“The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting.”
Martha Reeves
“Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.”
Erma Bombeck
“If you were to visit education as an alien and say what's it for, public education, I think you'd have to conclude, if you look at the output, who really succeeds by this, who does everything they should, who gets all the brownie points, who are the winners, I think you'd have to conclude the whole purpose of public education throughout the world is to produce university professors.”
Sir Ken Robbinson
“I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.”
Carol Gilligan
“American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.”
Camille Paglia
“I went to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania like my dad did. I even gave the graduation speech at Wharton, which is what my dad did. I wrote the speech.”
Aaron Karo