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.
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
Religious education is demanded by the nation generally and by the instincts of human nature.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
I’ll try anything that improves my education and is fun at the time.
Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.
Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.