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"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 on Graduation

More quotes about Graduation

  • "It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree."

    John F. Kennedy on Graduation

  • "God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

    Elbert Hubbard on Graduation

  • "A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success."

    Robert Orben on Graduation

  • "Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."

    Erma Bombeck on Graduation

  • "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 on Graduation

More quotes by H. G. Wells

  • "Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."

  • "In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table."

  • "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."

  • "There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile."

  • "History is a race between education and catastrophe."

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