Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250 000 in Britain.

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

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

So in my uncertainty I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

In my second year in graduate school I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

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.

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so one could blame the companies but really economically they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers scientists doctors lawyers and skilled professionals.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

I teach one semester a year and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.