Keynote Speakers And Graduation Events At University
After a number of years studying at university, when you attend your graduation ceremony both the graduates and their parents will be full of pride. Working towards a degree will bring you the chance to have a successful career, brighter job prospects and a life changing time away from home. The keynote speakers that are chosen to talk at the event should thus be chosen to reflect this achievement.
I do not think that a university life is for everyone, and I do not mean to sound like a snob, but picking a keynote speaker who has not been to university is the wrong decision for ceremony organisers to make. Without knowing what it is like to be at university, keynote speakers cannot relate to their audience because life at university is completely different to life when you choose to go into a job straight from leaving school.
You become a more independent person faster when you go to university. You often move far from home with no one that you know, have to budget your loan and get a part time job on top of your studies to help with living costs and deal with people that you might not get along with. These are things that you do not deal with when you stay at home.
When you decide to go into a proper job straight after leaving school, most people still live with their parents for a few months, even years and they have their washing done for them and meals cooked, you have a stable wage which university students do not have and if you do move out you choose the people you are living with. Because unlike the many preconceptions about university students, the majority do not have financial help from their parents, they do it by themselves.
And so when graduation ceremonies are being planned, the keynote speakers should be chosen on their experiences, including attending university themselves. Otherwise their audience will be given a speech that has not resonance with their own lives for the past three years.
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