This Harvard Graduation Speech Is Going Viral
http://www.refinery29.com/2016/06/112493/donovan-livingston-harvard-graduation-speech
You may have heard some inspiring graduation speeches before, but you've never heard one like this.
Last Wednesday, Donovan Livingston spoke at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. Livingston, who was receiving his master's degree in education, presented a spoken word poem during his speech. A video of his address has gone viral, with more than 11 million views on Facebook.
Livingston, a North Carolina native, used his speech to address issues Black people face in the United States education system. He had entered a competition to speak at the ceremony, The Charlotte Observer explains, and school administrators quickly realized his speech was very different from those of the other competitors.
"I wanted people to understand both the legacy of inequalities in education, and how we often laud education as this thing that is the great equalizer in our society, and it's really not," Livingston told the Observer. "In many ways, some education systems work to reinforce inequalities in the country. Highlighting that was really important to me."
You can read Livingston's remarks on the Harvard Graduate School of Education website, and check out his speech in the above video.
Last Wednesday, Donovan Livingston spoke at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. Livingston, who was receiving his master's degree in education, presented a spoken word poem during his speech. A video of his address has gone viral, with more than 11 million views on Facebook.
Livingston, a North Carolina native, used his speech to address issues Black people face in the United States education system. He had entered a competition to speak at the ceremony, The Charlotte Observer explains, and school administrators quickly realized his speech was very different from those of the other competitors.
"I wanted people to understand both the legacy of inequalities in education, and how we often laud education as this thing that is the great equalizer in our society, and it's really not," Livingston told the Observer. "In many ways, some education systems work to reinforce inequalities in the country. Highlighting that was really important to me."
You can read Livingston's remarks on the Harvard Graduate School of Education website, and check out his speech in the above video.
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畢業演講可以「悶死人」，但在上周三哈佛教育學院畢業典禮上，非裔學生利文斯頓採取朗誦形式演講，視頻在短短幾日獲得800萬次點擊，超過13萬人轉發，包括民主黨總統選戰參選人希拉妮和小天王Justin Timberlake。
利文斯頓（Donovan Livingston）在中學時想以朗誦形式發表畢業演講，但遭到禁止，現在機會來了，哈佛沒有阻止，遂以口語詩（spoken-word poem）致辭，講述非裔接受教育面臨的歷史性障礙，以及新一代教育工作者如何能夠克服這個仍然存在的問題。
利文斯頓以《起飛》來講述教育制度中的種族不平等，希望能啟發他的同學，將來以教育者身份協助別人發揮潛能。
他說：「發自內心，我們中沒有一個人願意甘於平庸，我們生來就是彗星，飛越時空——在撞向一切時留下我們的印記。」
利文斯頓最後激昂的鼓勵台下學生，「團結起來，我們可以激發世世代代偉大的星系；天空不是極限，只是開始。起飛吧！」
希望有朝一日在大學執教鞭或當管理人員的利文斯頓表示，沒想到演講獲得全場起立致敬。學院翌日把他的演講視頻放到官方facebook上，並稱那是「你會聽到最強有力、發自內心」的演講，利文斯頓更因此成為大紅人。
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