As more and more students don their caps and gowns for high school and college graduations this weekend, we want to share this #SaturdayRead from NPR about the best commencement speeches ever. “…Since the colonial era, young graduates in stiff gowns and itchy mortarboards have been forced to sit through this one last lecture. On rare occasions, politicians have used commencements to say important things, like John F. Kennedy announcing a nuclear test ban. Other lucky graduates have been treated to profound musings by literary geniuses like Joseph Brodsky and Kurt Vonnegut, or calls to action by activists like Gloria Steinem. Today, like so much else, the format has become dominated by celebs — the Conan OBriens, Meryl Streeps and Amy Poehlers. But commencement speeches still make news, and like those by the late David Foster Wallace and the great George Saunders, they can still be poetry.” Congratulations, Class of 2014! Turn that tassel to the left. npr.org/2014/05/19/311861694/what-we-learned-from-the-best-commencement-speeches-ever
Posted on: Sat, 24 May 2014 15:00:03 +0000
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