https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/05/18/10-inspiring-commencement-speeches-about-creativity-and-courage/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 04:31:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/05/18/10-inspiring-commencement-speeches-about-creativity-and-courage/#comment-940261 Kasper Eagan Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:45:39 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5538#comment-940261 These are brilliant speeches, no doubt. But I do have doubts whether today’s graduates will be able to have the same level of education and creativity to make a similar speech in front of future grads. I suppose that the reason for this is the insufficient attention paid to classical literature, especially Shakespeare. We celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday in universities, but this is not enough. At that time, when students with persistence studied Hamlet, in addition to it, I always recommend to get acquainted with Macbeth. As I consider that this work contains monologues and expressions which may be of good use in real life, especially on commencement speeches.
Here is a great study guide on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. if you for one reason or another haven’t heard of it:
https://studentshare.net/student-help/macbeth-by-shakespeare-guide
I truly believe that Macbeth and Shakespeare remain a part of the world culture, but not something that is old and archaic, which can be surface-explored and later forgotten as useless. And I always conveyed this thought to my students.

]]> https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/05/18/10-inspiring-commencement-speeches-about-creativity-and-courage/#comment-818665 BobDeloyd Sat, 23 May 2015 22:03:53 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5538#comment-818665 I was thinking the same as I looked through the list and totally agree with you Kinnari Vora!

]]> https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/05/18/10-inspiring-commencement-speeches-about-creativity-and-courage/#comment-815118 Kinnari Vora Tue, 19 May 2015 02:50:21 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5538#comment-815118 I think we must also include the commencement speech given by Steve Jobs at the Stanford must be included in the list. Even though he wasn’t an artist by proffession but he did definitely create apple and had the courage to never give up.

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