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__________________________________________________________________________________________ VALEDICTORY ADDRESS

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ALJO M. MADAHAN
Class Valedictorian, Batch 2012 Rupina Andrada Santos Memorial School

Our guest speaker for this years Commencement Exercises( STATE THE ORDINAL NAME OF THE CELEBATION OF COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM, e.g. 12TH COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES), honorable and distinguished guests, (local officials of this municipality-ACKNOWLEDGE IF ANYONE PRESENT DURING THE CEREMONY), our beloved principal(STATE HIS/HER NAME) of Rupino Andrada Santos Memorial School, the district supervisor (STATE HIS/HER NAME), the ever dynamic faculty and staff of this school, my beloved teachers present in whom I have been under their tutelage and instruction since grade 1 up to grade 6, ever supportive parents and/or guardians and to my parents most especially, my fellow graduates, friends, ladies and gentlemen. A great morning to all!!! This very day marks the great jubilation of our parents and our teachers whose relentless and major roles and functions in shaping up our physical, intellectual, moral, and spiritual aspects of our life have never faltered, since the day one of our setting foot in the elementary as grade 1 pupils up to this very moment that we are to complete our elementary education and are about to embark in the next chapter of our journey in high school does then and there their guidance and wisdom they imparted to us continue to abide in us extending to our future endeavors. And with profound gratitude we take our hats off to our beloved parents and teachers for their commendable job! On this very day such important people who are behind our success today will be given due honor and appreciation as they celebrate with us this special day which is actually and directly dedicated to them as sweet fruits of their labor, in that finally their earnest efforts in affording us the best education we could have, have come into fruition and further harvest. Yes! Our completion and success of our elementary education is deemed as the SWEETEST FRUIT as graduates in the elementary that we could ever bear. Fruits from the toils, hardships and industry of our ever loving parents and quality elementary education

as the output or the result of our teachers selfless efforts and love in effecting learning to us. Soonest, we will be leaving the portals of Rupina Andrada Santos Memorial School, yet the great memories we experienced here had formed part as milestones in our lives as elementary pupils and the great learning experience we will treasure in our hearts forever during our lifetime. Every person we meet every day in this institution, if not directly may have indirectly affected and contributed something in our character as we communed with them. From manong guard of this school, janitors, clerks in the canteen and all those not mentioned but with deep appreciation from the bottom of our hearts and soul we salute to you! Kudos to you all! Your gift of learning, our tool for nation building is the theme given by Dep Ed for this years commencement exercises. This theme encapsulates EDUCATION as a determinate legacy of our parents that will serve as the very tool for us to prepare for LIFE. For some parents belonging to the impoverished, EDUCATION is a thing of great worth they could afford to give to their children in order for them to alleviate from dire poverty and escalate their socio-economic status or social strata. Education, nowadays may be deemed as the be-all and end-all of any endeavour in order to succeed in life. Education through the years has become an asset, and the continuous acquisition and accumulation of which can never be a liability since you always get your ROI or the return on investment as what it is termed in the business and commerce world. In constant education, you will always obtain profits, profits that are definitely not just capable of pecuniary realization but profits of perennial benefits to proliferate to generation after generation. What am I talking about here... this does not insinuate that I will take a business course in college or be a businessman after I finish college What am I saying is that what we sow is what we reap. What we conceive is what our body will achieve. As the famous quotation by Ralph Waldo Emerson puts it, Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny. Indeed we are the ones designing our destiny. And it starts from a simple thought up to being ones character. God gave us the free will to always exercise our volition and make good choices. Intellect is what separates us from animals and brutes. Thats why we are superior to other creatures because we have what they call in Psychology as id, ego and superego. These days the popular saying that goes, Knowledge is power is indeed very true and actually prevailing since if one person has knowledge about many essential and complex things he becomes someone in the society and can definitely speak life to his dreams, goals and aspirations in life. The continuous search for the truth in many ways will usher us to the brighter tomorrow and converge all our philosophy, vision and dreams in life that will definitely affect our eternity. Thats why our present shall be perceivable and reflected in our future. It is for that note that parents invest much on their childrens

education and as partners teachers do much of educating the young minds, touching their lives and transforming them. To effect learning is the ultimate end of every teacher in transferring every information to become knowledge, and every insights, foresights and even hindsights to form part of the wisdom. Being a youth, this a challenge to all of us and we must act on the call of pursuing higher and further knowledge in the future and advocate for the right and truthful things. We must pledge that this gift of learning that originates from the Divine Provident who selflessly bestowed upon us such ability will not stop with us, but will continue to spread and multiply all throughout the country today, and tomorrow to conquer the world. We should always bear in mind WHO the giver of such gift is which also includes our parents and teachers who personally realized such will of God the gift is just a gift and it is futile should there be no giver. There is a saying that it is better to give than to receive and when you receive you acknowledge the giver. Today, we receive the gift of Tomorrow, we give back in order to contribute in the nation building. learning.

Once again my warmest felicitations to my fellow graduates and their parents. More power to one and all!!! you!

Thank Thank you to all of you!