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.
From kindergarten to graduation I went to public schools and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
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.
I disagree with a lot of those changes however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.
I went to my son's graduation this weekend and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.
Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.
It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.
I fell in love with theater there and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.