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.
True education means fostering the ability to be interested in something.
If education or warning were of any avail, how could Seneca's pupil be a Nero?
He [Temple] was a man of the world among men of letters, a man of letters among men of the world.
No man is the wiser for his Learning * * * Wit and Wisdom are born with a man.
Then Sleep and Death, two twins of winged race,
Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.