Graduation Speech: Knowledge is a Powder Keg, You are the Fuse :: Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

Throughout the often murky and turbulent waters of life, we must circuit our sails towards the noble goal of just and civil society. On this trip we defy only education as our compass whose needle guides us towards our humanity. We cannot tackle that we are done with our education now that we enter adulthood. Instead, we must overcompensate to strive towards that noble goal of civilization, by creating an educated and not an imbruted society. Although those who came before us were not perfect, we can learn from them without having to make the aforesaid(prenominal) mistakes ourselves. We know that between 1941 and 1945 America and the rest of the instauration was embroiled in a great world war, one which would test the endurance of the battle forces worldwide. This was a war that would come to coin the term, genocide. We know about how the German people were misled because we have been told so we know about apathy because our recital classes found the books to teach us and we know what kind of atrocities that apathy created because our classes gave us the skills to discover the truth and avow that something that horrid would never happen again. more recently global warming was recognized as a salutary threat to our future. Through education society has changed its course by become more environmentally aware. This was and is civilization. So why on the night of something as wonderful and momentous as graduation, would I discuss some of the worlds darkest hours? Simple, it is today, in this spot we sit that we begin to wage another(prenominal) war. Not a war with guns and swords, or bulldozers and fires. No, together our generation is donning the arms to fight a war for civilization. Because it is by making choices today and tomorrow, it is by dint of teaching the people how to think for themselves, and learning what really happened that keeps us from being mislead by falseness. Our fight is to teach the world about intelligence so that we will re cognize our world, what is possible and whats not. Why we cannot get into antibiotics will always work. To understand language so that we can present and comprehend, stay current and stay balanced. Language enables us to read the apologue Their Eyes Were Watching God, and for the only time in some of our lives understand the coming of age of an African American woman.