Yesterday, you were Seniors. Today, you are Graduates. I was proud of you then. I am proud of you now.

I want you to remember some of what we did together over all these years you were my students. Take from it what is good and useful.

Make it work for you -- and for everyone else. For, that is the highest goal of education: to be able to make everyone's life a little bit better.

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(Dr. Pasha)

June 1, 2012: World Day of Education

Everyone is graduating from everywhere. It is that season again.

All over the world, it is graduation season. And what a blessed, happy season it is.

In this happy graduation season, we call on the world, all people all over the world, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, and whether they are male or female, to celebrate the 1st of June every year as WORLD DAY OF EDUCATION.

Along with everything else that they celebrate.

Let us start out with June 1, 2012 as our first WORLD DAY OF GRADUATION. [...]