I was sent the link of John Adam's commencement speech. Read it; it's worth your time. Below are some of my favorite quotes from the article
"A life in the arts means loving complexity and ambiguity"
"And it means that you value communicating about matters of the spirit over the baser forms of human interaction, because you know that life is not just a transaction, not simply a game about winning someone’s confidence purely for purposes of material gain. "
"We can hear or see just about anything online now, but how often are we bowled over, how often have we been forced to stop all other discursive mind wandering and just sit there in astonishment, listening or looking in rapt amazement? "
"So if I can leave you with some words of wisdom . . . I would probably urge you to do one thing over all else, and that is never to consider yourself sufficiently educated."
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