Elder Oaks Encourages BYU Graduates to Serve

This article was originally written by Tracie Cayford Cudworth for Mormon Newsroom. The following is an excerpt.  

Elder Dallin H. Oaks, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, urged Brigham Young University graduates to use their education to serve others. Elder Oaks spoke during BYU’s commencement exercises Thursday, August 13, 2015, on the Provo, Utah campus.

“The gaining of knowledge and skills is an incomplete view of the significance of education,” he told the more than 2,000 graduates from 10 colleges in the Marriott Center. “Of even greater importance is the question of how those attainments are to be used.”

“You should remember that those whose sacrifices have supported your education expect you to use that education in the service of your fellowmen and in furtherance of your own becoming what God created you to become,” explained Elder Oaks, who served as BYU’s president from 1971 until 1980.

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