Lady Gaga, Winfrey at Harvard

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/02/born_this_way/

Lady Gaga, Winfrey target bullying

BORN THIS WAY 

Foundation to empower youth launched during Sanders session

Pop sensation Lady Gaga launched her anti-bullying, youth-empowering Born This Way Foundation (BTWF) at Sanders Theatre on Wednesday during an Askwith Forum sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).

Winfrey took the stage to interview the singer about her plans. Gaga’s initiative, Winfrey said, speaks to the innate human desire for acceptance and validation that she saw time and again during her work as a television interviewer.

“I believe that every human being on the planet comes with the inherent divine right to be himself and herself,” Winfrey said. “That’s what we’re here to do: to fulfill the highest expression of ourselves as human beings.”

The nonprofit organization is partnering with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society to address issues of self-confidence, anti-bullying, mentoring, and career development through research, education, and advocacy, in large part by harnessing the power of the Internet.

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Gaga stressed that her new charity will try to inspire a major cultural shift.

“I can’t give you an answer. I can’t say I will solve problems,” said the singer. “It’s a transformative change in culture over time.”

An important part of that change, she said, includes the three pillars of the new initiative: skills, safety and opportunity. “I want everyone to feel safe in their community, school, home, whatever city you live in,” and to develop the skills needed to be a “loving, accepting, and tolerant” human being, Gaga told Winfrey.

watch the video:  SSO 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTCCVw9KCqY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsuK6hsBC0

Winfrey's Commencement Address - What impressed Me

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/05/winfreys-commencement-address/

I know you all understand better than most that real progress requires authentic — an authentic way of being, honesty, and above all empathy. I have to say that the single most important lesson I learned in 25 years talking every single day to people, was that there is a common denominator in our human experience. 

I have to say that the single most important lesson I learned in 25 years talking every single day to people, was that there is a common denominator in our human experience. Most of us, I tell you we don’t want to be divided. What we want, the common denominator that I found in every single interview, is we want to be validated. We want to be understood.

One of them Khadijah Williams, who came to Harvard four years ago. Khadijah had attended 12 schools in 12 years, living out of garbage bags amongst pimps and prostitutes and drug dealers; homeless, going in to department stores, Wal-Mart in the morning to bathe herself so that she wouldn’t smell in front of her classmates, and today she graduates as a member of the Harvard Class of 2013.

The Critical Thinking Society： How to Analyze the Logic of an Article, Essay, or Chapter

http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/how-to-study-and-learn-part-three/515

To analyze thinking, we focus on its parts. In other words, we focus on the purpose of thinking, the questions the thinking is pursuing, the information being used, the assumptions and inferences being made, the concepts and point of view guiding the thinking, and its implications.

To evaluate or assess thinking, we apply intellectual standards to the parts of thinking, standards such as clarity, accuracy, relevance, logic, precision, justifiability, significance, depth, and breadth. For example, we ask whether the purpose and question are clear, the information relevant and accurate, the inferences and implications logical, the assumptions and concepts justifiable, the point of view relevant.

How To Analyze The Logic of 
An Article, Essay, or Chapter

Oprah Winfrey Harvard Commencement Address

http://www.oprah.com/index.html
是否她目前頻道的走向如她所說：讓不同意見的人有機會發聲 
http://www.oprah.com/world/Oprah-Winfrey-Interviews-Barack-Obama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okvTHs7jbiA&feature=fvwp
Ellen and Portia Oprah 2009.11.09

女同性戀的成功故事，在Oprah 節目中出現

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrE55sPw89k
your true calling

  http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/05/winfreys-commencement-address/
 文

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMWFieBGR7c
  影音

如果各位先看，會決定挑出哪幾段--你認為值得分享的部分？
看看這篇報導，挑出了那幾段，比一比你所挑的部分

http://therealmissdrea.com/2013/05/30/oprah-recieves-honorary-law-degree-from-harvard-university-delivers-an-inspiring-commencement-speech/簡介Oprah
http://www.biography.com/print/profile/oprah-winfrey-9534419

http://www.speech-guru.com/graduation_speech.php

A graduation speech is a speech delivered by an academic institution graduate/an alumnus/a celebrity/a politician at a commencement ceremony in front of the class of graduates and the ceremony attendants.

Hillary Wellesley College Student Commencement Speech

1969 Student Commencement Speech
Hillary Rodham Clinton --
Wellesley College

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpLg1EFb1vs

http://www.sojust.net/speeches/hillaryclinton_commencement.html

We protested against the rigid academic distribution requirement. We worked for a pass-fail system. We worked for a say in some of the process of academic decision making. And luckily we were in a place where, when we questioned the meaning of a liberal arts education there were people with enough imagination to respond to that questioning. So we have made progress. We have achieved some of the things that initially saw as lacking in that gap between expectation and reality.

And it's also a very unique American experience. It's such a great adventure. If the experiment in human living doesn't work in this country, in this age, it's not going to work anywhere.
But we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation. A liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so as to be free to create within and around ourselves. To be educated to freedom must be evidenced in action, and here again is where we ask ourselves, as we have asked our parents and our teachers, questions about integrity, trust, and respect.

Getting the boys to read:

Getting boys to read:
http://gettingboystoread.com/

Redefining Literacy: being able to evaluate information... what is appropriate?


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男孩閱讀：
101 書單

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Our mission is to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers.

愛家協會

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怎樣讓小男生愛上閱讀？

文 / 布錫克 

你家的小男生是不是缺乏閱讀興趣？你是不是無奈地認爲，小男生天生就不愛讀書？其實不然。只要花點腦筋，用點智慧，就能引導他進入書中勝境。
你也許正爲10歲的兒子不願閱讀而氣餒，而你也沒法讓他明白閱讀能力在成人世界裏的重要性。送他一本書，他卻想踢球或者是去遛狗。他喜歡打遊戲和看動作片，遠勝于坐下來讀書。