Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.
Graduation Quotes
Two of the most popular graduation lines are flagged. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself” is a paraphrase of John Dewey, not a quotation. The one about education being what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school is credited to Einstein and flagged as misattributed.
The page is assembled from the pages on education, success, the future, dreams and learning. It has no graduation speeches in it, but it does have a lot of quotes that get used in them. If you are writing a speech, use the sourced entries; the label will tell you which is which.
If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Sound is all our dreams of music. Noise is music's dreams of us.
I do not admire myself as a person. My successes do not override my shortcomings.
The universities are schools of education, and schools of research.
The summer grasses—
For many brave warriors
The aftermath of dreams.
I am not in favour of any parental choice in education. You will go to your local school.
And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.