• Best-selling author Daniel Pink: “Want better academic performance from your students?” Give ‘em frickin’ recess!”

  • Pledging $40 million, billionaire tech investor and philanthropist Robert F. Smith to the Morehouse College graduating class of 2019: “My family is going to create a grant to eliminate your student loans.”

  • Purdue University President Mitch Daniels to the graduating class of 2019: “At other places, but I’m happy to say not yet at Purdue, students have demanded to be kept ‘safe’ from speech, that is, mere words that challenge or discomfit them… I don’t pretend to know what’s causing the phenomenon. I do know that, in the world you are about to enter, emotional strength, in the form of people are now terming ‘resilience’ or ‘grit,’ will be essential for you to realize the enormous potential we see in you… Don’t misunderstand this, but I wish for you many… tough moments. You can easily avoid them; just lead a safely inconsequential life. Run no risks, confront no injustice, accept no roles of leadership. But that’s not the path we expect you to choose.”