My advice to graduates: You can’t eat your certificates. Knowledge can become stale. Therefore, stay fresh. When you graduate today, and stop learning tomorrow, you’d become an illiterate the next day. There are many graduates who, for all practical intents and purposes, are functional illiterates. Don’t increase the population of this uneducated class. Don’t’ be an illiterate grad. There’s never an end to learning, unlearning, and relearning. Constantly grow in knowledge—both in your field of study and in your spiritual pursuits. Even the all-knowing “Jesus GREW in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man” (Luke 2:52). He kept learning. Illiterate grads drink from the stagnant pond, but the truly educated draw from the running stream. Stay fresh. Keep growing and learning. Always!—Samuel Koranteng-Pipim
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SAMUEL KORANTENG-PIPIM,PH.D. , is a US-based Ghanaian author, inspirational speaker, leadership trainer, and an advocate for youth empowerment. He was trained in engineering and systematic theology, and has authored more than twenty books. They include his bestselling works Hope Through the Dark, Six More Chances, Healed Wounds but Ugly Scars, and Patience in the Midst of Trials and Afflictions. Dr. Pipim currently directs two Centers for Leadership Development known as EAGLES (Empowerment & Advisory Group for Leadership, Excellence, & Service) and ANANSE (African Network & Advisory for Needed Services & Excellence). www.EAGLESonline.org. He also serves as a special consultant on Bible projects for Remnant Publications. 