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The Girls Hour peaks with her marvelous graduation speech in which she urges the graduates to «think about how you see yourself and not how everyone else thinks about you.»

CNN: Health secretary addresses health care, religious freedom in protested graduation speech In an anticipated and controversial address Friday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius delivered a speech that blended inspirational messages to graduates with a discussion of public policy's tough decisions, including health care and honoring religious freedom.

From Sheryl Sandberg to Stephen Colbert, here are some of the best graduation speeches in recent years.»

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It was «accounting software with no [traditional] accounting in it,» Cook explained during his graduation speech to Harvard Business School's Class of 2015.

In my last company wide email l referenced a part of Sheryl Sandberg's speech that she recently gave at the HBS graduation.

In his graduation speech at Harvard, the Facebook CEO said it is the next generation's responsibility to build a better world.

In 2005, Steve Jobs gave the graduation speech at Stanford University, and delivered one of the best commencement addresses of all time.

As Apple's Tim Cook said in his 2015 George Washington University graduation speech, «It's about finding your values and committing to them.

Blankfein spoke about his humble beginnings growing up in housing projects in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn at a graduation speech at LaGuardia Community College two years ago.

And so, with that in mind, below you will find some of our favorite quotes from college graduation speeches of 2017 — whether these speak directly to your career aspirations, or more broadly to your approach to life, we are confident that taking these quotes to heart can help all students and grads in their personal and professional lives.

I thanked him for coming and told him I enjoyed his speech, and in turn he thanked us for having him, and congratulated me on my graduation.

I imagined it was something that once hung on the walls of Cena's elementary school gymnasium, but when I Googled the quote, I found out that it's from a graduation speech Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan gave in Maharashtra, India, on May 30, 2016.

A handful of students protested Vice President Mike Pence's graduation speech at Notre Dame, while other students in attendance booed.

In a speech read on his behalf at the graduation of some...

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, gave the commendation in a speech read on his behalf by the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, at the graduation parade of the Special Medical Intake 4 held at the Ghana Military Academy and Training School in Accra, on Friday 27th April, 2018.

Graduation rates in New York City's public schools have risen 27 % during the past 5 years, Bloomberg said during his speech.

«We recently learned that America's high school graduation rate went up to 83 percent, which is the highest on record,» President Barack Obama said in a speech Monday to cheering students and faculty at a D.C. high school.

A typically busy schedule lay ahead: In the morning, a meeting was scheduled with his staff, followed by a speech to hundreds of youngsters at a graduation ceremony in a local middle high schooIn the morning, a meeting was scheduled with his staff, followed by a speech to hundreds of youngsters at a graduation ceremony in a local middle high schooin a local middle high school.

When a geeky high - school valedictorian throws caution to the wind by expressing his love for a popular cheerleader during his graduation speech, life finally starts to get interesting in this coming - of - age comedy adapted from the book by journalist / author / screenwriter Larry Doyle.

Fortunately, graduation ceremonies have advice built in, as community leaders offer speeches full of wisdom meant to ease the transition from schooling to «real life.»

So, whether you're hunting for the best advice to impart to your own soon - to - be-grads, or in search of a new direction of your own, these graduation speeches are sure to inspire and delight.

Like in his high school graduation speech, Ryan did focus on the discussion of time once again, but not through a series of quotes.

President Obama delivered a widely covered speech this fall to celebrate that the graduation rate had climbed to 83 % in 2014 - 15, up about four points from where it stood in 2010 - 11.

The first - term Democrat cited tougher graduation requirements, increases in school funding, and an expansion of early - childhood education as accomplishments, in his speech to Illinois lawmakers.

This means that, in a sense, by suggesting you that you lead with grace, which is difficult to define, I may be offering completely meaningless advice, which is unfortunate but perhaps fitting given that this is a graduation speech and I am a dean.

In 2010, the African - American valedictorian used his graduation speech to call out the school for its lack of diversity.

Most notable was a graduation speech she gave to a high school in Chicago in 2016 where she talked about growing up on the city's south side and later, at Princeton, being afraid to ask for help, feeling it was a sign of weakness.

So when Aguilar's homeroom teacher asked her to give the sixth - grade graduation speech, the 11 - year - old wrote it the way she had every other school assignment: in English.

This is my third graduation speech, if you don't count the one I gave in high school.

His vision, outlined in a speech to a Little Rock civic group earlier this month, calls for raising academic standards by requiring more rigorous course requirements for graduation, linking teacher pay raises to student performance, and restructuring the state's accountability system to include annual spring testing.

In his speech he said: «Firing teachers and closing schools if student test scores and graduation rates do not meet a certain bar is not an effective way to raise achievement across a district or a state... Linking student achievement to teacher appraisal, as sensible as it might seem on the surface, is a non-starter... It's a wrong policy [emphasis added]... [and] Its days are numbered.»

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's commencement speech at Bethune - Cookman University, a historically black institution in Daytona Beach, Florida, should've been a generally unremarkable affair, given little notice besides its mark as her first graduation address.

Most controversially, the RVAA requires schools to permit student speakers to engage in religious speech throughout the school day and at school - sponsored activities, which critics say could include anything from morning announcements to pep rallies to football games to graduation ceremonies.

President Obama celebrated the nation's highest - ever graduation rate of 82.3 percent in his 2016 state - of - the - union speech in January.

Less noticed but no less important is the fact that more than 19 governors specifically talked about graduation rates in their state - of - the - state speeches.

With their mix of advice, humor and encouragement, any entry in this quartet would make a thoughtful gift for those about to leap into the real world.YOUR FUTURE LIES AHEADAnyone who's delivered a graduation speech, or listened to one, or hopes to make one...

If order to make your graduation speech effective, you should bring in speech ideas that can make an impression on your audience.

Best - selling author Terry McMillan (Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back) fell asleep during her own high school commencement speech, so when she was asked to speak at her son's graduation in 2002, she wanted to make sure to say something original and inspiring.

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Graduation speeches are often rote recitations of lessons learned and advice for charting a successful path in the world.

Benjamin Strauss, the student commencement speaker at graduation this year, stated in his speech that Cooper Union's education model is one that «money could never buy.»

As Tom Mighell, past Chair of the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Section said in his 2010 IgniteLaw speech before the 2011 ABA TECHSHOW, No Lawyer Left Behind, most law schools do not provide practice management education, and this omission needs to be rectified by employing practicing lawyers to teach these subjects, making them requirements for graduation, and including a practical component.

Sunday's speech was the first commencement address delivered by an Apple CEO since Steve Jobs spoke at Stanford University's graduation in 2005.

She delivered the keynote speech at her NLEI graduation ceremony and also spoke about her experience with NLEI at the agency's Annual Dinner and Auction in 2012.