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    "content": "We know that Alliance Boys High School has been the epitome of excellence in this country for decades. However, excelling academically is just one aspect of what helps you to excel in life. You can get all the As and when you face the real life situations, still find it difficult to excel. You need academic qualification, yes, but it just forms about 20 per cent or even less of what makes you become a better citizen and to excel in life. What you need most as a human being is the strength of character to deal with real life situations where you only need your academic qualifications as an input to help you with some information. What you also need most is personal discipline – how you carry yourself when nobody is supervising you; when the headmaster, principal, house teacher or prefects are not there and you are alone somewhere in one part of this world facing a real life challenge. How you will carry yourself in that situation, personal integrity and everything else brings out the success that you need. Sustained hard work not just in class --- You cannot believe that once you get straight As in your academic qualifications, that you have worked hard. No. That just gives you the platform to now work hard. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when you graduate, then you are faced with that reality when it is announced that you have now been given authority to read. If you go to any graduation ceremony, you will hear the graduands being told that they have been given power to read. In the last graduation that I attended, the lady who was with me had brought along her grandmother.When that pronouncement was made that: “We now give you authority to read”, this old woman was so shocked. She had come all the way from some part of this world to witness the graduation of her grandchild thinking that now her granddaughter had done it all. Only to be told that it is now after you get your first degree that that is actually when you are officially given authority to now read. Now, you see how far we all come. I thank you one more time, not just for the sustained good academic qualifications but for the discipline that comes from Alliance Boys High School, Alliance Girls High School and other institutions that you represent. Thank you and welcome as you visit the Senate."
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