Proverbs for Graduation
Not everything a scholar knows he learned from his teacher.
-Barbados
Education is the work of your entire life. -Haiti
Learning is for life, eating is for today. -Kiswahili
Learning is like sailing the ocean: no one has ever seen it all. -Africa
Inquiry saves a man from mistakes. He who makes no inquiry, gets himself into trouble.
-Benin, Nigeria, Togo (Yoruba)
No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions.
-Central Africa (Fulfulde)
Knowledge is like a forest bird, one person alone can't catch it.
-Ghana (Akan)
A traveler who asks questions doesn't miss his way.
- Africa
No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow.
-Democratic Republic of the Congo
If you understand the beginning well, the end won't trouble you.
-Ghana (Ashanti)
Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth.
- Benin, Nigeria, Togo (Yoruba)
Better you lose time than character.
-Jamaica
Rice is one, but there are many ways of cooking.
-Kiswahili
Some birds avoid the water, ducks look for it.
-Nigeria
It is survival not bravery that makes a man climb a thorny tree.
-Uganda (Ganda)
The river may be wide, but it can be crossed.
-Ivory Coast
If one person kindles the fire, others can take live coals from it.
-Ghana (Twi)
A person is a person because of other persons.
-Lesotho
Though a tree grows ever so high, the falling leaves return to its roots.
-Malawi
If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.
-Sierra Leone
There is no foot that does not stumble.
-South Africa (Zulu)
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