Graham Dimmock, who teaches science, was the faculty speaker at the Arlington High School commencement on June 3, 2023.
Thank you for this great honor and congratulations on your imminent graduation from high school.
Today I get the privilege to offer you some advice at the close of one epoch of your life, and the beginning of the next. These three pieces of advice are certainly an incomplete list. Also, these are less like tasks to be accomplished and more like habits of mind that must be nurtured.
My first piece of advice is that you continue to learn, for the rest of your life. And I don’t mean that you need to continue your formal education at university or in apprenticeships or the like. Those are fine, I suppose. What I mean is that I urge you to find something you care deeply about, and learn everything you can about it.