You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
~ Tom Brokaw

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
~ Aristotle

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, Once Around the Sun, 1951

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
~ Benjamin Franklin

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

It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.
~ Woody Allen, "My Speech to the Graduates," Side Effects, 1980

People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: "And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.
~ Bill Cosby

The future lies before you
Like a field of driven snow,
Be careful how you tread it,
For every step will show.
~ Author Unknown