Oh, Michelle Obama, how I admire your grace and elegance, in all matters! What a lovely way you have of “keeping it real.” You gently suggested, in your local graduation address, that undergraduates need to become “hungry again” for a good education. You don’t say that many of our young people today expect to be “spoon-fed” an education. You don’t say that even the best of them expect their grades to be “bumped up” if they are “too stressed,” they worked “really hard,” or they “lowered themselves” to ask for a better grade than the one they earned. You don’t say that especially since 9/11, too many of them are over-rated, satiated, medicated and above all, placated.
No, in your exquisitely balanced way, you just said that they needed to get hungry, for the life-changing effect that a good education can bring to them. I sincerely hope that some of them might hear you, and “dig deep” to be successful. It isn’t hyperbole to say that our future depends on it.
