-Robert Orben
2. Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.
-Gary Bolding
3. Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
-Erma Bombeck
4. Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
-Garry Trudeau
5. A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
-W.H. Auden
6. The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
-Russell Green
7. At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.
-Paul Freund
8. It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.
-Woody Allen
(Really good advice from an archetypal bumbling idiot)
9. Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
-A. Lawrence Lowell
10. To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.
-George W. Bush
Published by Willa Glesener
Student in Austin, TX. View profile
- High School Diploma and GED Classes in San Diego A review of High School Diploma and GED Classes in San Diego for English and Spanish speakers.
- How to Earn Your High School Diploma at Home Teenagers who are unable to leave their homes for education can opt to study at home - even to earn high school diploma at home. Various educational levels are also available to be had at long-distance, even college l...
- High School Diploma or GED There was a time when a GED was considered taboo, and people were shamed by employers and society to even admit that they had a GED and not an original high school diploma.
-
1,224 Pound Cupcake and Tuxedo Cat Earns High School Diploma: Bizarre Ne...
News of the largest frosted cupcake in the world and the first housecat to earn a high school diploma made this another standout week for bizarre headlines and weird stories.
- Choosing Between a High School Diploma and a G. E. D A look at surviving high school or opting for a G. E. D.
- Top Ten Funny Graduation Quotes
- Great Quotes for Commencement Speeches
- 10 Great Reasons to Earn a High School Diploma
- Earn a High School Diploma Online
- Homeschool Myths: Homeschooled Teens Can't Get a High School Diploma
- How Home Schoolers Can Get a High School Diploma
- It's Never too Late to Get Your High School Diploma
|
|
- Audit: ND university awarded unearned degrees (AP)
- Nazi Flag in Marine Photo Shows Need for History Education (ContributorNetwork)
- No Child Left Behind waivers: five ways education will change (The Christian Science Monitor)
- No Child Left Behind Waiver States Need a Success Plan (ContributorNetwork)
- Florida offers look at problems with education law (AP)