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LisaM

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15. Said every commencement speaker to every graduating class ever (or at least the good ones).

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Jun 7, 2018, 07:58 PM

Jun 2018

I'm going to remove Trump from that equation because God knows what he would say - or has said - to recent grads, but I think everyone is fired up to make the world a better place when they graduate. Heck, I thought pollution would be solved, and then along came individual packaging.

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the problem is that there is also 5 times the amount of "fake facts" lapfog_1 Jun 2018 #1

Of course. But it a great sentiment. That we all have the power to know applegrove Jun 2018 #3

Education is suppose to make us into ''critical thinkers''.The ability to synthesize fact / fiction YOHABLO Jun 2018 #5

Many of us have developed techniques to weed out the disinformation and fake facts. It Nitram Jun 2018 #11

And there are easy ways to verify it with reputable sources IronLionZion Jun 2018 #12

yes, I know... but so many people don't... so this admonition should have been part of the address lapfog_1 Jun 2018 #14

I love him! BigmanPigman Jun 2018 #2

F-A-C-T-S. A good word. nt Honeycombe8 Jun 2018 #4

For all the eloquence of graduation speeches bucolic_frolic Jun 2018 #6

He said to "find the facts". That takes work. It also trickyguy Jun 2018 #7

It's really not that difficult samplegirl Jun 2018 #8

I've said before, the Democratic Party should be making a big push for media literacy education. Garrett78 Jun 2018 #9

When I was still teaching murielm99 Jun 2018 #10

GOP is against education in general because it makes people soft and weak IronLionZion Jun 2018 #13

Said every commencement speaker to every graduating class ever (or at least the good ones). LisaM Jun 2018 #15