![]() ![]() We must use our past experiences to transform ourselves into an intellectual, responsible man or intellectual, responsible woman. Is it really that difficult to find in ourselves the motivation and perseverance to keep fighting for a brighter future? All it takes is to believe that it is possible-that it is possible for us to achieve our goal, our dream. It’s hard to be so sure about your own future when the world doesn’t seem to know its own future.īut it is the generations that faced the most that turn out to make the biggest difference. We were only in 2nd grade when the planes hit the World Trade Center, and we were only teenagers when the economy started to collapse. ![]() Start an art studio, write inspiring folk music, build a soup kitchen. The Innocence Project is ending wrongful imprisonment. And it doesn’t have to be what we’ve done. You’ve learned who you are and what needs to be done to build a better tomorrow. President, Berlin, Conn., Board of Education Your tool for carving your character’s template lies, in the words of the poet Robert Lowell, within your “peculiar power to choose.” Ultimately, it is the choice of the fundamental over the frivolous, preferring what is true over what’s accepted, the choosing of what is right over what is easy. It is forged in the smallest of struggles, the product of a thousand, thousand strokes. President, National Association of Independent Schoolsįountain Valley School of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colo.Ĭharacter is not created with a single act, no matter how brilliant or bold. Remember the words of Horace Mann in his last commencement speech in 1859: “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
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