It’s easy to tell yourself, “I am just one small person – I don’t have a million bucks to do a campaign contribution, I don’t have any political connections – what chance is there for me to bring attention to an issue that’s important to me.”
Here is something that happened to me many years ago that you might learn from (and I should always remember). Continue reading
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An engaging discussion of what the future of education wants to be
… and how
… and why.
David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech
In 2005, writer David Foster Wallace stood before the graduates of Kenyon College and delivered a memorable and impactful commencement address.
The speech, later turned into a book titled This Is Water, has become a classic to many, up there with Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford address. Videogram company The Glossary has revived Wallace’s words with a video visualizing the concepts described by the writer, who died in 2008.
The Glossary describes the speech as “the most simple and elegant explanation of the real value of education.”