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Quote by Alan Dundes
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses includi

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. – Alan Dundes

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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future. – Alan Dundes

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Future
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Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life. – Alan Dundes

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environmental
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I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions. – Alan Dundes

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Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. – A. Lawrence Lowell

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You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy. – Neil Simon

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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. – Russell Green

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Graduation

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. – T. S. Eliot

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Graduation

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