J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.
 
J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.
Text as delivered follows. 
Copyright of JK Rowling, June 2008
 
President Faust, members of the [...]

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The Power of Education
Once upon a time, two men were traveling together.
They were cousins. They were on their way to a special
school that taught religion. While they were traveling, they
stopped at a town that was ruled by an uneducated king.
Since it was a Friday, they prayed at the mosque where the
king talked nonsense. They slept [...]