i came out on a radio show not too long ago. an interviewer kept insisting being part of a gang like al-qaeda. that dehumanizes. i have spoken to so many of these students. when he shared that with me. i said, i refuse to go there. it perpet utes that paradigm. our paradigm changes ladies and gentlemen. what i would like to do is this. i want to pull the lens back to use that metaphor. what s feeding that monster. to think strategically. if anything, if you leave here today, you will leave with my accent. one last thing. i do speak to children an awful lot. i have a doctorate. education has meant more for me. i am under no illusion. i also know that having a doctorate doesn t confir wisdom. when people made fun of me. i remember me mom coming home. foreign long speaking. we had beans at breakfast, lunch and dinner. bean pudding. i stop counting them after a while. we even had american cuisine. we made rainbow bread. you remember that. i speak to children and listen to them.
adachi, say that. probably because of this, more one saying how is that. the only people who speak the truth are children and people who have had too much to drink. that s called wisdom. you think about it. i am going to share one more thing. i will speak briefly on the concepts of that. if i asked you right now, ladies and gentlemen, how many of you would have considered yourself at risk? could you raise your hands. and there was probably a lot of pain with that, huh. in the book i wrote. i interviewed 60 role models and all of them were at risk astronauts. it made us who we are. i have scars. i have a doctorate, but also scars. wisdom comes from making mistakes. i have made a lot of mistakes ladies and gentlemen. i am going to speak about collaboration. i am going to talk about the role of expectations. i will speak to the value of hope. because when you re in an ugly situation. hope means so much. it s a global concept. in the research i do with resilience of children. clo
they had money. funding. staffing. facilities and yet they died on the vine. you know why? because they couldn t collaborate. that s the elephant in the living room. they came from different paradigms. let me conclude with this. i talk about hope. growing up. seeing some of the things i saw. i learned a very important lesson and that was this. streets around here. selling newspapers on the border town. i saw things a young person shouldn t see. i learned an important lesson and it s this. in order not to get beat up. i am speaking to you the way my father talked to me. he was a doctorate from the field. you can tell i really value of the elders. he taught me a lesson. all the things i put up with. have hope. because i remember, coming home sometimes and i said, look what i bought you on special. people were making fun of me. do you know what color the shirt was? a bright yellow shirt. i looked like a light bulb. the role of the elders is important. when you talk about hope, l
someone. the work that i have done started with with a primitive of respecto. i expect something from you mihoe. because i respect, you are always angry. no it s the fire in me. the day i stop being angry is the day i stop caring. let s talk about collaboration. i did the best practices paper. sb 95. we have programs throughout the state. they had money. funding. staffing. facilities and yet they died on the vine. you know why? because they couldn t collaborate. that s the elephant in the living room. they came from different paradigms. let me conclude with this. i talk about hope. growing up. seeing some of the things i saw. i learned a very important lesson and that was this. streets around here. selling newspapers on the border town. i saw things a young person shouldn t see. i learned an important lesson and it s this. in order not to get beat up. i am speaking to you the way my father talked to me. he was a doctorate from the field. you can tell i really value of the eld
paradigms. let me conclude with this. i talk about hope. growing up. seeing some of the things i saw. i learned a very important lesson and that was this. streets around here. selling newspapers on the border town. i saw things a young person shouldn t see. i learned an important lesson and it s this. in order not to get beat up. i am speaking to you the way my father talked to me. he was a doctorate from the field. you can tell i really value of the elders. he taught me a lesson. all the things i put up with. have hope. because i remember, coming home sometimes and i said, look what i bought you on special. people were making fun of me. do you know what color the shirt was? a bright yellow shirt. i looked like a light bulb. the role of the elders is important. when you talk about hope, ladies and gentlemen. i want to remember the works of victor franco. he looked, he was one of the survivors of a/sweuts. this too shall pas. the best way to build hope is have a plan. when i t