Graduation Requirements Quotes

I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.

I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.

The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.

I certainly, to this day, believe I did everything I needed to do to get my degree.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

I have something stupid, like, 12 credits, to graduate.

You have, unfortunately, a K-12 educational system where the requirements to graduate are not the requirements to be college and career-ready. So if you want young adults who are college and career-ready, our K-12 system right now does not have that as its standard.

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.

It's so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

I went to my old school, where all the kids I'd been with for eight years were about to graduate. But the sisters wanted me to repeat the whole term; so I went to the principal and pleaded with her to allow me to graduate with my class. She finally agreed on the condition that I write the graduation play. It was called How Do You Spend Your Leisure Time?Catchy title, huh?