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personally I think that you should write first of all what you feel, the words must go from your heart. I remember my school teacher �s last message of this kind, it is so soul-stirring.
You may write what they have taught you (it might be very interesting both for you while recalling and for them when they read it).
Your intention is really touching and great. I want your students to appreciate it.
I think this is a important period for your students.They are about to leave you. So you could teach something about their whole life.How to live and work for their motherland is a deep topic.They may recognize this message for long time .
I am just a college student,i have just graduated from senior school.I have never forget my last class .
I don �t know the age of your students. So I hope you will find my advice useful. I recommend that you check out this site, http://www.graduationwisdom.com . Here is a small sample of what you will find. This is from a commencement speech given by Michael Uslan a Hollywood movie producer (he made "Batman".) He was addressing the graduating class of 2006 at Indiana University...
Follow whatever your passion may be in life and do something you love. My father was a mason starting at age 16 when he left school to help his family survive the Depression, until he was 80. His whole life, he worked six days a week no matter how hot or how cold out it was. He was an old world artist� a craftsman who created magnificent fireplaces and homes out of bricks and stones. Every morning of my childhood, I saw my Dad hop out of bed before dawn, eager to get to work and do what he loved. Even then, I knew that was what I wanted in life� to be able to wake up on a rainy Monday morning and say, �I can�t wait to get to work!� I had to find my own bricks and stones. For me, that�s movies and comics. Today, I challenge you to find yours.
If there�s one quotation that sums up my journey through life and the choices I�ve made, it�s the closing lines of a poem by Robert Frost, which I now pass along to you:
�I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.�
Last time advanced students of mine left school I printed the following onto beautiful coloured cardboard for every one of them, added a sentence or two saying that I wished them ALL OF THESE and a deeply fulfilled life, signed it, rolled it up and put a couple of nice matching ribbons around them and gave one to every one as a goodbye present.
The following sentences appeal strongly to me both because of their wonderful deep meaning, because of the "character challenge" they are and because of their wit and linguistic sharpness (oops, three reasons here, not two ;-)) The title of the document is:
Inspirational definitions
Focus
Obstacles are
those frightful things you see when you fail to focus on your goals.
Competition
Whoever said �It �s
not whether you win or lose that counts�, probably lost.
Perseverance
The difference
between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack
of knowledge, but a matter of will.
Passion
There are many
things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart
... pursue those.
Risk
You can �t reach
your goals without occasionally taking some long shots.
Success
Some people
dream of success ... while others wake up and work hard at it
Opportunity
There is an
island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty.
Desire
Some people
want it to happen, some wish it to happen ... others make it happen.
Commitment
Commitment is a
line you cross ... it is the difference between dreaming and doing.
Diversity
Diversity is
the one true thing we all have in common ... celebrate it every day.
Imagination
A mind once
stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Courage
Do not follow
where the path may lead ... go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail.
Believe/Succeed
The key to
happiness is having dreams ... the key to success is making dreams come true.
