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Bill Cosby, who in addition to receiving eight honorary degrees, with all but one being doctorate degrees, earned his Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he grew up, and earned his Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1972 and his (Ed.D.) Doctorate in Education in 1977 from the University of Massachusetts. His dissertation had the rather unique title of: An Integration of the Visual Media via Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids Into the Elementary School Curriculum as a Teaching Aid and Vehicle to Achieve Increased Learning.

He wasn’t always so committed to education. Due to working a great deal early in the morning before school as well as after school in the afternoons and evenings to help support his family combined with too much joking around in class, Cosby failed the 10th grade.  He apprenticed with a shoe repair business then enlisted in the Navy for four years where he worked as a Hospital Corpsman doing physical therapy for Korean War Vets. After the service, he completed his high school equivalency through correspondence courses then won a track scholarship to Temple University. He left after his sophomore year to pursue a career in comedy and returned to complete his degree after a number of successful years performing and producing his comedy routines as LP’s. He continued with his successful comedy and acting career as well as excelling in higher education as noted above. More recently, he is known for his strong advocacy for education and a strong work ethic as the prescription for achievement.

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”

“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”

“The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.”

“There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.”

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”

“The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.”              

“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.”

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

“Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.”

              

“There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.”

“The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.”

“Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.”

“No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.”

“Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.”

“The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.”

- Bill Cosby  (1937- )

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Two Quotes by Bill Cosby, an American actor, comedian, educator and activist.  His greatest television success came with the debut of ‘The Cosby Show’ in 1984, which was unprecedented in its portrayal of a wealthy, educated African-American family.

“Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.”

“Old is always fifteen years from now.”

- Bill Cosby  (1937- )

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