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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.

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In Africa, we we don't have much education on the art market

Kwesi Botchway

So we will be demanding that the new coach builds on his (Broos's) success, but there is no system or even playing style that they are building upon.

Brian Baloyi

Cape Town is where I received my political education. It forced me out of the bubble I didn’t know I was living in

Thero Makepe

At the beginning of the season I had a lot of success and ran great times, but then I was feeling a bit tired and my results were no longer that good.

Tyson Gay

Not in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would be capped to play for the Proteas so quickly

Nqabayomzi Peter

We were both hybrids: I by birth, he by education. We had both taken too many steps away from the country that had borne us to belong anywhere with ease.

John le Carré The Mission Song (2006)

(Creation, Evolution, and Public Education)

Duane Gish

that women supply with success to recapture their husbands’ straying affection

Chinua Achebe Marriage Is a Private Affair (1952)

and should be entitled to have access to education according to their competency and needs.

Sukavich Rangsitpol

Then at Syracuse University, I was the only Black person in the Ph.D. in mathematics education program.

Nkechi Agwu

the sensitisation and education of all road users would also be intensified while road safety interventions would be data driven.

Mavis Nkansah Boadu

they must not be afraid to dream big dreams and not focus on how the dreams will materialise.

Mahmood Ahmadu

You forgave my father, despite his mistakes, brought us back home, provided us with a house, and gave us an education. Because of you, I am now a doctor.

Taban Sharifah Aate

Education was also a cornerstone of my upbringing. My parents fostered a love for learning that continues to drive me to this day.

Chinwe Egwim

We gave a unanimous vote for Prof Charles Soludo – Ministers of Finance, Education and Due Process.

Fabian Osuji

I began my graduate education in the Sociology Department at Stanford University, California, USA in 1965, fresh from University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Peter Ekeh

INTERVIEWER: But the nationalized industries, do you think they were a success in the late '70s?

Tony Benn

There, in the high bright window he dreams, and sees
What we are blind to,—we who mass and crowd
From wall to wall in the darkening of a cloud.

Conrad Aiken The House of Dust (1916)

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary ... Fame and success are very different things, anyway.

Enya The Times Magazine interview (2005)

If, because of my schooling, I had grown culturally separated from my parents, my education finally had given me ways of speaking and caring about that fact.

Richard Rodriguez Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982)

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