Commencement Address For THE PRESCHOOL CLASS OF 2014
Friends, family, and members of the graduating class of the Excelsior Preschool for the Gifted and Talented,
Im honored to be your commencement speaker today. Your teacher wanted me to read excerpts from Oh, The Places Youll Go! But Im not going to do thatyoure not babies anymore. If youre sitting here today, its because your mountains arent waiting for youyouve already been moving them.
As a fellow Excelsior alum, I see a preschool class that is uniquely equipped to solve the problems our world faces. I read some of your admissions essays to get a clearer sense of who you are, and wow. Its inspiring to see how many of you arent afraid to defy convention. The number of you who drew abstract representations of yourselves instead of submitting a boring personal statementthats the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that makes you exceptional.
You have all worked incredibly hard to get here. Just think: before preschool, you were still picking your nosenow youre carrying spare tissues. A lot of you are feeling anxious about your future. Will the curriculum in kindergarten be rigorous enough to prepare me for the LSAT? Will I connect with the right influencers?
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