Commencement Speech You'll Never Hear, Jacob Neusner: A Response

Name: Lecturer: Course: Date: Commencement Speech You’ll Never Hear, Jacob Neusner: A Response In your “The Commencement Speech You’ll Never Hear,” article, you argue that we are made to believe that according to our college experiences, “failure leaves no record” and you further affirm that things can still be achieved easily. Why does it see m to you that graduate school is not a good a preparatory educational center for life’s long challenges and purpose? You seem to have that in mind when you say that school only prepares us ‘for a world that does not exist.” You appear to have completely abandoned the principles you have been imparted with while in the same schooling system because it appears that you should have taken a closer look at college and the purposes of its existence before formulations such shallow opinions about it. It is a good thing, however, that you shall bash the same system that taught you with the same knowledge and skills and mind that has been imparted in you by the very system. Is this irony? The pressures that college students should not go unnoticed and neither are the hard times irrelevant. It would be a disservice for someone of the stature of a distinguished professor to blatantly ignore these very efforts. What are the possible effects of such allegations and statement? We can only guess. However, I have identified that you are trying to pass a very important message to those on campus at the moment, not only at your University but to the millions of studen...