Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree. It symbolizes the culmination of many years of study, and is viewed as a significant day by students and educators alike.
Our Life Daily team thought it would be a good idea to look at graduation through the eyes of some people who regard it somewhat more cynically.
That is why we chose these amusing quotes about graduation so you could see it from a different perspective.
At one time, graduation was a term that referred only to college or university. Today, in the United States and Canada, the term is additionally increasingly being used to refer to the advancement from a primary or secondary school level.
Usually, the ceremonies associated with college or university graduation include a procession of the academic staff and candidates in the academic dress of cap and gown.
All very formal – unlike our quotes about graduation which are somewhat informal.
Take a few moments to browse the list and you’ll understand what we mean:
1. Robert Orben:
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.
2. Erma Bombeck:
Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
3. Fred Allen:
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
4. Conan O’Brien:
Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California’s schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.
5. Bobby Heenan:
North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
6. Clive James:
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it’s in Hamburger Technology.
7. G. M. Trevelyan:
One half of those who graduate from college never read another book.
8. Al McGuire:
Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
9. Ruby Wax:
College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
10. Ayelet Waldman:
I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan – it was a graduation requirement.
Did you find our selection of quotes about graduation amusing – or too cynical?
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