Graduation

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement
speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and
gowns that "individuality" is the key to success.
~Robert Orben

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate.

Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life.
If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference. ~Arie Pencovici


At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.
My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros. ~Paul Freund


When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ~Adlai Stevenson, to college graduates


Graduation day is tough for adults.
They go to the ceremony as parents.
They come home as contemporaries.
After twenty-two years of child-raising,
they are unemployed. ~Erma Bombeck


You are educated. Your certification is in your degree.
You may think of it as the ticket to the good life.
Let me ask you to think of an alternative.
Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
~Tom Brokaw


The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
~Aristotle


It takes most men five years to recover from a college education,
and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951


A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car;
but if he has a university education,
he may steal the whole railroad. ~Theodore Roosevelt


An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
~Benjamin Franklin


Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
~Garry Trudeau