Future Workforce Member Gifts

"This work experience thing has been a real insight into life after school…I've been made redundant."

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

'I have this fear of the real world...'

"You know what happens when you make good grades? They send you to another school called college."

WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN!, 'Boy, talk about psychobabbl!'

"Maybe he's so sad that he's leaving us to go to college that he actually looks happy. Please don't ruin it for me with reality."

"At these tuition prices an acceptance letter is pretty much a denial."

"The teacher expects too much of me. She wants me to give it the old college try, and I'm only in grade school."

"An educational toy is my immediate goal, but my long range plan is to get him on Jeapordy!"

"Class, this is Mr. Elzondo. He's going to talk about going to college."

"Sure, I pray all the time... English test, Math test, History test...."

Good Luck with your finals.

Believing that clothes make the man, Dave goes for the 'smart guy' look.

'That piggy bank is for my college fund.'

Parental Role Model

'F.G.G. First Grade Graduate.'

'That's all there is in my college fund? That won't even buy the beer!'

'Unfortunately our definition of 'job' differs.'

"I just don't know what to do with myself in that long stretch after college but before social security."

'Now what?'

'In which on-line university will you enroll?'

"We want him to skip joined-up writing and get straight on to 3D printing."

'My philosophy is to sit down and the hell with being counted.'

"So what makes you think you're the right person for this post?" "Well, I'm highly motivated, outgoing and independently minded. Isn't that right, Dad?"

'That should be good for quite a few doctoral dissertations in the future.'

'I'm enrolling in an online course to learn how to apply for a loan for an online university.'

'Explain to us, son, how gaining nine A levels is uncool and damages your street cred.'

'You're never going to follow me in my trade, Son - you may as well go to university.'

"If you insist on giving me a gift for being accepted into Oxford, I could use a new DVD player...gift wrapped in a BMW."

"Gracie, don't worry. I created a college fund for you the day after you were born. I figure by the time you're 18, it'll total $28,000."