Graduation from college is a time to look back and ask oneself if what one received in the four or five years of college was really an education.

The graduation address comes from a consideration on graduation about Greeks and Goths, about the full content of a real education.

From the Essay:

"In the university we should be looking for what is, in fact, practically useless...the things that are useful are not the most important things."

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