Examinations

(183 votes)   As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.

Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist

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(126 votes)   Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

W. C. Sellar

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(111 votes)   Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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