It isn't common sense, necessarily. It isn't kindness or trustworthiness or good judgment or imagination or a sense of humor or courage. If information were learning, you could become educated by memorizing the World Almanac. Were you to memorize the almanac, you wouldn't be educated. You'd be weird.
Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
He also advised the graduates to go back and read the classics they were always supposed to read but thought were dreary. We need as never before the capacity to think and to think with the heart as well as the mind. Also during today's ceremony, Frank D. Rich, Jr., of Darien, a Connecticut business leader, philanthropist and former UConn trustee, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. She presented the class to UConn President Philip E. Austin, who began the process of bringing the students into the UConn Alumni Association. On Sunday, Noam Chomsky, an internationally renowned linguistics scholar and noted critic of American foreign policy, will deliver the keynote address to about 670 candidates for advanced degrees.