Idea Book
Graduation

See also:  Change, Learning

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated  Garry Trudeau

Today we turn our child loose on an unsuspecting world  unknown

Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues  unknown

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars  Richard Halliburton

At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.  My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.  Paul Freund