Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. This is called Finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it.
David LodgeWalt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
David LodgeUniversities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
David Lodge