Occasionally, the (sometimes maligned) youth nail it!

Very insightful and unselfish...I think.

It may also speak to the nature of individuals. Did she realize this at the moment of graduation or did this form along the way without her being able to change her course? Is she, perhaps, performing a cathartic event to help ease the burden of being "The Best"?

I wish I had done a little less doodling and daydreaming in high school, it would have saved me the catch up work I had to do in college and beyond educationally. That being said, I did have a great time that I would be reluctant to trade in for a little better grades.

My guess from reading her well crafted speech is that she'll do great in college, grad school, med school and life. I'll also bet she'll get more comfortable with the nature of competition and winning.

I'm still trying to figure out what a pedagogic movement is. Oh well, another movement is motivating me. Later.

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I'm still trying to figure out what a pedagogic movement is. Oh well, another movement is motivating me. Later.

It is along the same lines as the Ecopedagogy movement. I hope that clears it up for you.

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It is along the same lines as the Ecopedagogy movement.

That's a bicycle, right?

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I'm still trying to figure out what a pedagogic movement is. Oh well, another movement is motivating me. Later.

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It is along the same lines as the Ecopedagogy movement. I hope that clears it up for you.

It's about "Freirean aims"... Geeze

"The ecopedagogy movement represents a recent transformation in critical pedagogy that seeks to interpolate quintessentially Freirean aims of humanization and social justice with a future-oriented ecological politics that radically opposes the globalization of neoliberalism and imperialism, on the one hand, and which attempts to foment collective ecoliteracy and realize culturally relevant forms of knowledge grounded in normative concepts such as sustainability, planetarity, and biophilia, on the other."

Isn't Google great

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Isn't Google great

Imagine having to sit through a symposium on this stuff.

Note to self: Look for an smilie that epitomizes putting ones self out of their misery. Sadly, beating ones head against the wall only satisfies their smugness... On the other hand, the opposite might actually get them to say... I wonder why he did that?

Symposium originally referred to a drinking party (the Greek verb sympotein means "to drink together")
~ Oh, for simpler times ~

 Thank you google 

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Symposium originally referred to a drinking party

Yeah, all for that! Then you get to "Sympotize" with yer mates.

I don't post often ...but in reading this thread this is why I love this site...thanks all!!!

It's 5 o'clock someplace... time for a symposium.

Doesn't seem to have the same ring about it.

Oh well, as long as we can put it on our expense account as a Symposium I guess it doesn't really matter if it rolls, or slurs, off the tongue.

I certainly hope somebody is planning a 5 pm Friday night symposium for the December GTG. I would hate to think that there was going to be no effort to enhance our intellectual standing.

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Oh well, as long as we can put it on our expense account as a Symposium I guess it doesn't really matter

If you write it off, then it becomes a Boondoggle!

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I don't post often ...but in reading this thread this is why I love this site...thanks all!!!

No, Thank You Herb!

I sometimes wonder if I'm the only one chuckling! I think I love this site for the same reason I love King Of The Hill and Family Guy, real people!!!!

I don't know if valdictorian speeches have to be pre-approved any more, but I'd be a nickle that the principal wouldn't have understood this if he/she read it.

One of my kids had to tone his down to get it approved. And, mikes would go dead on command of the principal. But, this might have gone right over his/her head.

Unfortunately, this type of authoritarianism led to tremendous innovation in commencement pranks. Some were hilarious, but things tended to get out of hand.

Here's what things sound like when you reach the highest level, Harvard.

Warning: rated R in a few spots.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llcCryKpjNE