Graduation Speech Moves One Deeply
Last Saturday,we had the first-term commencement of Jacques(American university advanced course of talents compete) .The courses are taught in tirely English.Each of the students made a graduation speech. Some of them choked with sobs during speaking. Jason Wong's speech, a schoolteacher from Harvard, deeply moved everyone at present. Here is the chinese version of his speech.
Good morning,dear parents、friends and students:
First I am very grateful that all circles of friends can spend time in this special day with us! It's a significant moment to our students and their parents.So please allow me to express my sincere gratitude to the dishtinguished guests for your full supporting and presence here again.
It's my honor to congratulate you,every parent, for you bring up so good ,so knowledged ,so perfect child .Though I did not nurse a child ,I have even been a naughty boy who brought bother to my parents. I can imagine your feeling when your dream was interrupted by your baby's noises;I can imagine your feeling when you had to treat your child who was hurt by doing somethings that you asked him not to do again and again ;It's need a lot of time and patience to send and pick up your child for their taking part in activities of out class;you have to bear the disputes existing between you and your child,because both of us are ordinary people. Though there is close relations between you and your child,there is inevitable differences between you and your child for love.
you will soon send your child to go to university. You not only send your child to go to university but also send him/ her to go to American university. It's happy combines with bitter for you to send them to go to university after a lot of trials and crucifixions. But you had to send them to America. Because you deeply know it's a correct choice to send them to America ,which is helpful to their growth, success, perfection and happy . Parents are pround of seeing their children study, grow and get success . There is nothing can compare the relations between parents and their children in the world.
But it is the most important that I have great honor to make a speech to the students whom I taught during the past two weeks. In short several weeks we spent happy time together sharing our respective stories, good food and funny things. I can't help feeling surprised to ponder over the meaningful two short weeks. My goal is to make you prepare everything well for your university life ,eventually for American life through this period's studying as possible as I can. I managed to explore new methods and teach you knowledge and skills so that you are able to exceed others. Moreover,the most important thing is that I hope you can exert your full potential respectively.
It is my great pleasure and great pride as a teacher to see my students can recognize and challenges themselves as well as study,grow ,make progress constantly. Now I have seen these things happen. I have seen your contribution,energe and desire of study on or out of class. I deeply know you can do anything and reach all the targets .I deeply know you have realized this point.The American dream,in a sense,is also a chinese dream day after day .And that chinese dream is joined with America dream closer and closer. In this society that internationalization rapid developed, all of you will master two languages of two countries and possess of the advantages of the two powerful countries in the world. So you have infinite chances.
During the past two weeks ,we learned a lot. I'm sorry to say goodbye to you . However,you will enter the big American classroom ,which makes me incomparable pride! I will not be your teacher and you will not be my students,however, which dosen't mean that we can't be life frieds. Today we will say bye , also ,which doesn't mean we shall not see forever!
Perhaps we can see each other soon in the future, at that time ,I will be pride and grateful because I was ever acquainted with you during the summer which will soon end in 2008!