Today, I would like to reflect on what we have accomplished together in this time. Yesterday, at Class Day, I shared with the graduands some of my memories of these past four years. And while we will continue our journeys separately, we will maintain our links to the mothership that is the College.
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It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.” To offer a naval version of this image, the class of 2017 is like a flotilla of small boats-canoes, kayaks, skiffs, dinghies, perhaps the occasional jetski or windsurfer. Burke writes that “To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. This conundrum led me to think of the statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke’s metaphor for society. But this underestimates the fact that we will all remain part of the broader Yale-NUS community. In a sense, we are like those visitors who spend some time on board the ship just before it heads out on an oceanic voyage, and we will now all row our hundred and twenty little boats back to shore before setting out on other journeys of our own to new destinations-while Yale-NUS will sail onwards. You could say that we have steered the ship of Yale-NUS College into harbour, but in fact the ship is in fact fully afloat and headed out on a journey whose final destination we still cannot foresee. I have been trying to think of the right nautical metaphor for this current stage of our travels together. Some of you will have noticed over the past four years that I have often compared our involvement in Yale-NUS College to a sea voyage. Now, nearly four years later, most of the class of 2017 is graduating-some will graduate next year. We did indeed all take a risk together when we started out on this journey. Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me įor we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,Īnd we will risk the ship, ourselves and all. Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only! On that occasion, I quoted Walt Whitman’s poem “A Passage to India”: I vividly remember the freshman assembly of Jand the excitement of witnessing the first day of a new college after four years of planning. I bet you’d like to rise and show them your appreciation. To you parents especially, I want to say that I can imagine the pride and pleasure that you are experiencing, and the many memories that such an occasion conjures up.Īnd I also know that what you would like to do right now is to join those of us on the stage in offering warm congratulations to the Yale-NUS College Class of 2017.Īnd now I would like to ask the class of 2017 in turn to reflect for one moment on how you came to reach this milestone.ĭuring that moment of reflection, one of the things that may have occurred to you is that there are many people here today – your parents, siblings, relatives, and friends – whose support and encouragement made your achievements here possible. I want to begin by welcoming all the parents, relatives, and friends of our graduates to this celebratory occasion. Mr Ong Ye Kung, Minister for Education (Higher Education & Skills) and Second Minister for Defence,Ĭhairpersons and Members of the NUS Board of Trustees, Yale Corporation
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