Never Heard, Never Forgot

Never Heard, Never Forgot

ЎЄЎЄReview on The Commencement Speech YouЎЇll Never Hear

Normally speaking, in order to leave the graduates a flawless impression of their college lives, probably 99 percent of the universities across the world, I assume, would pay great attention to the annual commencement ceremony. Usually they would invite some recognized scholars to deliver a superb speech, which presents some inspiring words so that the students would be highly motivated to throw themselves into society. However, it seems that Jacob Neusner is brave enough to enjoy the tiny 1% part. In his The Commencement Speech YouЎЇll Never Hear, Jacob argues that college prepares us a forgiving world that does not exist. As far as his understanding, whatever the professors say is all lies and whatever they do is all pretense, for what they care about is all about education, not popularity. Hence, after entering the outside world, the students are not supposed to act as self-centered as they have acted in the school.

Personally speaking, I very much agree what Jacob believes. Universities are indeed the so-called ÐŽoIvory TowerÐŽ±, whose inside world is totally different from the outside. Education is wildly regarded as a kind of service, thus when you enter the college and receive education, you are actually being served there. ItЎЇs the duty of the school faculty to make the greatest effort and provide their students with service as quantifiable and qualified as possible. Whatever the teachers do should be student-oriented instead of school-oriented, for the sake of education. Consequently, professors pretend their students are smart when they are actually dull, since they are responsible for encouraging students to keep on striving; professors listen as if to new and wonderful things when students are actually unimaginative and routine, since they are responsible for inspiring students to expand their idea bank; professors create a seemingly forgiving world, in which whatever slight effort students give is all that is demanded, since they are responsible for instructing students to be well-informed enough so as to get prepared for the world outside the ÐŽoIvory TowerÐŽ±.

Indeed, students deserve whatever the school serves, for they are at present still enjoying the process of reception rather than production, which means that during this period of time, as far as knowledge is concerned, input is paid much more importance than output. Learners are required to accumulate sufficient knowledge for the purpose that they will be able to survive when get out of the college and step into the real world. However, here the troublesome problem comes: how can the students apply what they have obtained at school to their genuine lives. As is known, what they need is a variety of experiences, which can be viewed as a sort of accelerator to the successful application. The more they have experienced, the clearer they know about the ÐŽohowÐŽ±.

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