"The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness."
― Robert M. Hutchins
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Graduation
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- "A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation."
- "A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."
- "The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
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- "In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate."― Simon Newcomb
- "If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research."― Alan Dundes
- "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