Shadowing Practice: KenBurn 1 - Learn English Speaking with Video

Stanford University.

Please join me in warmly welcoming our commencement speaker, Ken Burns.

President Hennessy, members of the Board of Trustees, distinguished faculty and staff, proud and relieved parents,

calm and serene grandparents, distracted but secretly pleased siblings,

ladies and gentlemen, graduating students of the class of 2016, good morning.

I am deeply honored and privileged that you have asked me here to say a few words at so momentous an occasion,

that you might find what I have to say worthy of your attention on so important a day,

especially one with such historical significance.

125 years.

Wow.

Thank you, too, for that generous introduction, President Hennessey.

I always feel compelled, though, to inoculate myself against such praise by remembering

that I have on my refrigerator door at home an old and now faded cartoon that shows two men standing in hell,

flames licking up around them, and one guy says to the other, apparently my over 200 screen credits didn't mean a damn thing.

They don't, of course.

There is much more meaning in your accomplishments, which we memorialize today.

I am in the business of memorializing, of history.

It is not always a popular subject on college campuses today,

particularly when at times it may seem to some an anachronistic and irrelevant pursuit,

particularly with the ferocious urgency this moment seems to exert on us.

It is my job, however, to remind people with story,

memory, anecdote, feeling of the power our past also exerts to help us better understand what's going on now.

It is my job to try to discern patterns and themes from history,

to enable us to interpret our dizzying and sometimes dismaying present.

For nearly 40 years now,

I have diligently practiced and rigorously maintained a conscious neutrality in my work,

avoiding the advocacy of many of my colleagues trying to speak to all of my fellow citizens.

Over those decades of historical documentary filmmaking, I have also come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing,

a collection of precise dates, facts, and events that add up to a quantifiable, certain, confidently known truth.

History is a mysterious and malleable thing, constantly changing, not just as new information emerges,

but as our own interests, emotions, and inclinations change.

Each generation rediscovers and re-examines that part of the past which gives its present new meaning,

new possibility, and new power.

The question becomes for us now, for you especially, what will we choose as our inspiration?

Which distant events and long-dead figures will provide us with the greatest help,

the most coherent context, and the wisdom simply to go forward.

This is, in part, an existential question.

None of us get out of here alive.

An exception will not be made in your case, and you'll live forever.

You can't actually design your life.

If you want to make God laugh, the saying goes, Tell her your plans.

The hard times and vicissitudes of life will ultimately visit everyone.

You will come to realize that you are less defined by the good things that happen to you, your moments of happiness and apparent control,

than you are by those misfortunes and unexpected challenges

that in fact shape you more definitively and help to solidify your true character, the measure of any human value.

You, especially, know that the conversation that comes out of tragedy and injustice needs to be encouraged,

emphasis on courage.

It is through those conversations that we make progress.

A mentor of mine, the journalist Tom Brokaw, recently said to me, what we learn is more important than what we set out to do.

It's tough out there, but so beautiful too.

And history, memory, can prepare you.

I have a searing memory of the summer of 1962 when I was almost nine, joining our family dinner on a hot,

sweltering day in a tract house in a development in Newark, Delaware, and seeing my mother crying.

She had just learned, and my brother and I had just been told, that she would be dead of cancer within six months.

But that's not what was causing her tears.

Our inadequate health insurance had practically bankrupted us, and our neighbors, equally struggling working people,

had taken up a collection and presented my parents with six crisp twenty dollar bills, one hundred and twenty dollars in total,

enough to keep us solvent for more than a month.

In that moment, I understood something about community and courage, about constant struggle and little victories.

That hot June evening was a victory

and I have spent my entire professional life trying to resurrect small moments within the larger sweep of American history,

trying to find our better angels in the most difficult of circumstances,

trying to wake the dead to hear their stories.

But how do we keep that...

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