Graduation Speech :: Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

When I first began considering a graduation speech, my initial beat was to spend this time discussing the advent of college preparation at Ridgemont, and the rise of abandon values. I thought it would be a good chance to acid out the fact that the quest for college admission has ground some of the opera hat mint I know into pulp, and that for the most part it seems as though both their parents, and to a large extent the school, seem afraid to pose that system for what it is. I wanted to speak to the changes happening here(predicate) at Ridgemont, that the focus of the school is being shifted from educating for character to trying to improve the cogency with which Ridgemont can heard students into the Ivy League. It seemed to me that my entire fourteen years here had led to the final understanding that a lot of what we admit been told to filter out for amounts to little more than bowing down before Mammon. But, upon reflection, I recognise that I would not be doing justice to the school and the class I love if I spent my time up here fight the parents and the school in that manner. I really owe the school and my peers a lot more than that. If it were not for my Ridgemont education, I probably would never have seen the system for what it is. Ridgemont taught me to despise that system by showing me a bring out way to do things by showing me that education, success, and happiness do not have to come at the expense of others, that I could go barely if I learned to help, and to be helped, by those around me, rather than make out against them. Ridgemonts emphasis on process versus product will stay with me for the backup of my life. So when I sat down and tried to pull together what it was about Ridgemont that made it an interesting and wonderful place to attend school, I remembered that my friend Larry had once pointed out to me the distinction between the two types of people that you can associate with. There are those that care about your soul, and those that dont. I think that the Ridgemont education, for many in my class, was one that cared for our souls, and this is what distinguishes it from other schools, and this is why it is so unlike the real world in here.