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Miss Caswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana school of dramatic arts.

(Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993), U.S. filmmaker. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Addison De Witt (George Sanders), in All About Eve (film), introducing his protégée Miss Caswell, played by Marilyn Monroe, to Margo Channing (Bette Davis) (1950).)
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I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best—it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money—provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

(Peter De Vries (b. 1910), U.S. author. the narrator (Joe Sandwich), in The Vale of Laughter, pt. 1, ch. 4 (1967).)
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The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.

(Laurent A. Daloz (20th century), U.S. educator. Effective Teaching and Mentoring, ch. 9 (1986).)
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I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of "Munich" may exceed the original error of 1938.

(Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (b. 1917), U.S. historian. "The Inscrutability of History," The Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy (1967).)
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Mrs. Pilletti: This girl is a college graduate.
Catherine: They're the worst. College girls are one step from the street, I tell you.

(Paddy Chayefsky (1923-1981), U.S. author, screenwriter. Mrs. Pilletti (Esther Minciotti), Catherine (Augusta Ciolli), Marty, speaking of Clara (Betsy Blair) (1955).)
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1946: I go to graduate school at Tulane in order to get distance from a "possessive" mother. I see a lot of a red-haired girl named Maude-Ellen. My mother asks one day: "Does Maude-Ellen have warts? Every girl I've known named Maude-Ellen has had warts." Right: Maude-Ellen had warts.

(Bill Bouke (20th century), U.S. psychologist. As quoted in The Mother Book by Liz Smith, 1978.)
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I checked out for the last time
on the first of May;
graduate of the mental cases,
with my analyst's okay,
my complete book of rhymes,
my typewriter and my suitcases.

(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Double Image.")
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... there was always the assumption, even when I was getting a graduate degree in education, that any work I did was temporary, something to do until I assumed my principal role in life which was to be the perfect wife and mother, supported by my husband. As it turned out, I never had children, and I've supported myself for thirty years. If I'd known I was going to have to do that I would have made some very different decisions. I would have approached work with more seriousness and purpose.

(Sally Ann Carter (b. 1934), U.S. realtor. As quoted in The Fifties, ch. 3, by Brett Harvey (1993). Carter was an interviewee in Harvey's oral history of the 1950s.)
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These young women have had four years of very special space.... This has been special space. This has been safe space. But when they graduate, they will begin to deal on a daily basis, all day long, month after month, year after year, with the realities that still haunt our nation.

(Johnnetta Betsch Cole (b. 1936), African American educator. As quoted in On Campus with Women, p. 1 (Spring 1993). Cole was the President of Spelman College, a historically African American, all-women's college in Atlanta; she was referring to her students' college years in an institution that was, by its nature, virtually free of racism and sexism.)
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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 (b. 1947), U.S. author, critic, educator. "Sexual Personae: The Cancelled Preface," Sex, Art, and American Culture (1992).)
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