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Commencement address time again (but can the grads read?)
(Copyright 05-03-2025) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan)  “IT WILL COME AS NO SURPRISE to anyone who has listened to a commencement speech in the last ten years to know that a spirit of elitism has been fostered among students – and deliberately – by politicians. Not so well known is the fact that many professors pander this same line to their classes, telling them how smart, how well-educated they are. “The words of politician and professor combine to reinforce the usual late-teenage ignorance; students of that age already assert their self-superiority. In short, too many professors pander to their audience and […]
The year the tree trimmer gave the commencement address at Yale
(Copyright 05-12-2025) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan)  Y’ALL probably wonder what I’m doing up here, eh? Well, all the invited speakers got rejected by the cancel culture, and I said I could fill in today and Yale was really hard up for a speaker, so here we are. I want to open with a quotation by Al McGuire, coach of the Marquette Warriors (if I can say that): “I think everyone should go to college . . . and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cab driver. Then they would really be educated.” Ironically, many of […]
The commencement address you didn’t get to hear this year — YET
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan)  “Welcome to the real world.” — someone once said EVER SINCE THE FIRST DAY YOU ENTERED 4-YEAR-OLD KINDERGARTEN, you have been given the impression that you are the world’s Hope for the Future. HA! You guys have been told that you are the most intelligent, the best-educated — the most highly evolved — generation in American history. WHAT A CROCK! What would your teachers know about American history? They’ve never heard of such a thing. You guys wouldn’t even be able to pass an eighth-grade graduation test from a one-room country school in the 1880s! Half […]