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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

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

You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

John Updike

Education is the process by which the individual relates himself to the universe, give himself citizenship in the changing world, share's the race's mind and enfranchises his own soul.

John H. Finley

Look at education as a continuous life long journey.

Catherine Pulsifer

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way.

Dr. Seuss

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Henry Ward Beecher

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

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 Purvis

Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.

Gary Bolding

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Tom Bodett

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Orrin Hatch

Universities are full of Knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in, the seniors take none away, and the knowledge there accumulates

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

Bishop Creighton

School's out, Memories past, Don't ever doubt, Our friendship will last.

Unknown

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Sydney J. Harris

When you leave here, don't forget why you came.

Adlai Stevenson

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future.

Plato

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

Robertson Davies

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Unknown

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

William Haley

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten. . .

Arthur Schomburg

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

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