A 2005 address championing the liberal arts might be the best graduation speech of all time

This year, the university in the United States chose an impressive graduate student leading business, entertainment and politics.

But in history, a series of lectures has repeatedly appeared in various "best graduation speech". It is from the late novelist David Foster Wallace awarded at Kenyon College in 2005.

Wallace - Graduates from British Academy of Sciences Amherst - Liberal Arts say to students that education teaches them how to think of them as self-aware

Wallace said liberal arts education "teach you that you do not become arrogant, you must have a critical understanding of yourself and my certainty."

"As I tend to automatically decide the majority of the content automatically, after all, he adds," it's totally wrong and confusing. "

Wallace recalls his first argument that their education taught them how to think about them. Learn freely, how to adjust, consciously decide what is reasonable and what is not so. You have to decide what you worship. "

This video is actually a record of the graduation class of David Foster Wallace at the College of Arts and Sciences. His presentation has been visualized, summarized and shortened to achieve the best results. I always play this video at the end of the next graduation of high-level students. His main message is what you have chosen to focus on, you can control what is happening towards your heart, what you recognize this and determine your reality I will. If we default to our easy and automatic selfish natural environment then the rest of the world and the people inside it will seem that they are just going down the road

David Foster Wallace 's graduation speech at Kenyon University in 2005 gave acute practical advice on managing the lives of adults in daily life, so it was recognized nationwide. As this correct idea brings freedom and vitality, Wallace 's speech has stopped being the learning of the way the real value of liberal arts education thinks. His conversation style obscures the use of intentional opinions, various kinds of appeals, and frequent episodes. In addition, Wallace advocates his argument by resisting selfishness by consciously prioritizing attention. To defend.

David Foster Wallace started his graduation in 2005 in a story that two young fish encountered old fish. "This metaphor shows that it is usually the most obvious reality.The real world is often the most difficult to observe.The human instincts are more difficult to observe than the inner contents of the mind By giving more attention to attention, it is possible to cause ambushing imprisonment. When people become self-centered they become narrower and can only gain limited meaning from experience, often they However, Mr. Wallace pointed out that if people train consciousness, discipline, and have compassion for others, they can be released from such imprisonment .