The annual graduation season has just ended. I was privileged to attend a couple high school graduations, and witness several kindergarten / grade school graduations. I was struck by the fact that the older I get the more I realize that graduation is not a completion, but just another beginning. And it is another beginning of many. The degree, license, certificate, or step documented doesn’t mean I finally know something – it means instead that I now have written permission and freedom to learn something; to go experience life.
Mark Twain wrote: “”I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Einstein had a few comments on the subject too. In 1973 Paul Simon sang “When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all!” Nonetheless, high school graduation seems to be a right of passage. It gives license to a teenager to finally sleep in and spend mindless hours on the couch watching TV or playing video games, without guilt. They have made it. Finally finished, they are free to begin life.
Thankfully at that stage the graduates are not bothered with life’s big questions because their SAT scores and final exams – the diploma itself – certifies that they now know it all. Their brains now contain the contents of 12 years of math, science, history, and words that have been stuffed into homogenized, politically correct, all-knowing, culturally accepted text books and curriculum. Some of them can actually read and write. And many them have been taught an entitlement philosophy that tells them the world owes them a grand future. They have worked for it, they deserve it, and no one is going to deprive them of it.
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Of course they don’t sit for more than a week before realizing that it is all starting again. They have but a month or so to finalize their plans to start the next stage of life, whether college, getting a job, or continuing whatever the next course is. And in no time they are freshmen again… beginners… newbies. And so it goes.
We never really graduate this side of eternity. It is just a cycle of diplomas, titles, achievements, and memories that push us into the next step. Nevertheless, graduates deserve a week on the couch relishing their new freedom. But alas, even as I write this, that week is over. Get up, get on with it. Forward we go…