Universities are the fountain of moral and civil doubt train
it will firm believe in this forwards by Thomas Hobbes that I come here today.
In sixteen fifty one way before this country existed even as an idea they gave
us reason to ponder now that the founding ideals of these nation on their three it.
Might seem strange to apply the observation of an advocate
of English monarchical right to internal matters of American democracy
especially since in hopes that.
A university education was limited to US elect few.
What cannot be denied is the hops it directly address in the higher
order of our humanity that is our innate capacity
to deliberate about moral and civil matters.
This is why I am grateful to Professor Welton for
her invitation I am humbled and honored to be here today
in this great university one hundred fifty years after its foundation.
When I received the invitation by the College of Education.
I could not stop thinking yes how
was the possibility of address in a crowd like this.
After all this is not what I came here to do
when I first came to the United States I did so
with no luck at them illusions whatsoever I came here toward with my body
to invade the vigor of my youth on my knees scrubbing your toilets.
I knew that I was this thin to perform menial jobs and lead a clandestine life.
And I was OK with that.
My story begins one Sunday afternoon when I was nineteen years old.
I give my mother goodbye at the at the bus terminal and embarked on a sea
of asphalt at thirty six hour drive from while a to the one that.
I was on my way to meet my fate to celebrate my rite of passage
to assume the risks and obligations of adulthood right at the border.
The song of the siren had seduced me.
It was learning me away from a place of poverty and
into a a land of untold riches.
I arrived in the US expecting to find the America I grew up watching on T.V.
the big houses the wide lawns
I particularly wanted to see the Chicago skyline.
Back home the picture of a relative person with a Sears Tower in the background
continuously It filled my imagination with wild ideas of urban prosperity.
But what I found was so unlike the fantasy I had imagined
that it seemed to me that I had gone to live in a.
Superior in reality.
Instead of growing in around the skyscrapers I found myself live in
Him all the mail in basements in the south suburbs of Chicago
performing ungodly jobs and then able to do something I feel a mental
communicating with the general population and participating in the larger society.
I found myself confined to the company of father in the ground whose lives for
many years had been limited
to this same underground existence experience and there.
World that paradoxically seem to offer them marching to relieve.
All these suggested to me that it was only there in the dungeons
of society that the likes of me good fortune are me your dreams
but after many years of toil and sweat indulge Shelley world
after years of trying to learn a language I still struggle with.
Enough to finding out that I G.D.
diploma does not guarantee financial stability or
social mobility something unprecedented happened.
I discover you.
Because you did not exist.
You did not exist in my imagination I had left the school at thirteen years of age.
I'm a premature from formal education had not left any trace or need for you.
So I discover you late in life long after obtaining my GED
it worst on my first day of class
a community college in the Southwest suburb of Chicago.
They're surrounded by people some ten years my junior I was immediately
dazed confused on blinded by the light of players allegory.
It was my first encounter with the loss of three I am one of those people in the cave
I remember telling myself while Syrian at the desk I'm a desk mesmerized I filled.
A metal ring press in around my ankles and
the weight of invisible chains binding me to the darkness.
Plato's proposition had such an impact on me that when I went back toward
washing dishes I felt that my obligation as a thinking being was to question
the motives of the cooks when they demanded that I hurry up with the plates.
As do all my work or
scrubbing will make any difference in the great scheme of things.
Here and they know all that the essence of things was permanent and
unchangeable that motion is an impossibility because between one
point and an order there is always a middle point and from the middle point
to another middle point there are not an infinite number of middle points.
Or Gilels I felt like saying we're not going to get any were
you been deceived by your senses.
Or simply comply with the urgent request and remain aloof and
unaffected by a different theory that will hear our players
assured me that the person they were screaming at earlier and
the one doing the thinking were two completely different people
I felt compelled to engage the cook in Socratic dialogue
to try to prove whether the plate they demanded were actually of what they
thought him to be or if they'd been livin in a lie all along.
Jane in the cave they were pulled by the shallows.
An idea like that will certainly confound them.
But then anticipating their reply
they got to the US you have taken it has been just bloodless cover on.
I dropped the pursuit of my philosophical inquiry is on a scrap of place hardly or
my adult education might have started at something surreal but
over time it became clear to me that education could shape my everyday reality.
Before starting college
whenever I was asked to cover somebody else's shift on top of mine.
I would not hesitate however once in college my priorities began to change.
What was more important working overtime to buy a shiny new car or
spending those hours trying to improve my English.
I came to our juncture where my values began to change and
rather than anticipating the come forward and excitement of the new car
I occupied myself with the pages of my dictionary flipping
through to find the meaning of war like compost and swamp and
more very none of which I knew at the time and all of which I found in a book
called all then whose fascination and mystery I was trying to unravel.
Eventually it also became clear to me that more so
than material positions time was valuable and
would turn their lessons on ideas I can earn from the books I was presented with.
After all some of those ideas spoke directly to my experience
my readings challenge my assumptions about the world and the way I related to read.
Some of the values I grew up with it to run out my be wrong
they did way we Mexican men treat their women or raise our children.
My routines also and for me explanations of my social situation they spoke to me
about economic inequality social struggle under coercion power of capitalism and
globalization and responsible for the exploitation of humanity and
its mass movement across continents and centuries
so all the books I read in college show me the United States as the epicenter
of social and human change I learned that this was a country
capable of questioning itself of reinventing itself
even if this meant continues confrontation or maybe because of it.
I look closely into some of your darkest chapters America and
felt deeply shaken undisturbed.
But then I discovered the words of Frederick Douglass W.E.B. Dubois Ellison.
And this story of the African American spirit and
those who bring him out of generosity and
expressed in his musical tradition our tradition forward on their stream and
the birth Francis and all these gave me reason to believe
that the best of humanity was still the and on adversity.
Selves to grow and mature and reach for unprecedented heights
there is some deeply ironic about my presence here today.
Again to this country pursuing riches and
instead I found books i Phone libraries and universities.
But the fact that I'm here says more about this country more about the nature and
dusk of institution institutions like this then about me as a person
my presence here today serves us this morning to the impact of higher education
on the life of any individual regardless of who he is or were he comes from.
Perhaps this is why I think attacks on education and
especially on the humanities so personally.
After seeing my life completely transformed by the public university
system of this country specifically of these grades the of
Illinois It baffles me to learn that there are people in places like
Springfield and Washington D.C. who seem bent on destroying it
maybe because education has done so little for them.
To me the whole point of education is a possibility
during vent ourselves to uncover heathen territories
within that remain unseen to on unearned certain prejudices
we have grown up with to expand the horizon of our inner life and
see how it connects with that of all the others in other words
to be were of our capacity for moral and civil deliberation.
This is why in contemporary society our world ruled by email and
popularity and there are a lot of Twitter and
education in the humanity remains as essential as he has ever been.
Because as it is obvious by now a college degree is not enough to make you
a humane educated individual not even a decent human being.
In fact you can own a university have your name carved in big
golden shiny letters draw on the entrance and still be a complete idiot.
On that note.
I like to turn now to the particular ways in which how your education
has helped me to understand the complicated relationship that I
as a Mexican man have with American society.
What I have learned is that ours is a connection that goes beyond the village
of America of Mexican territory by the nascent American Empire
beyond the politics and economics to have shaped our bilateral trade and
beyond the toxic rhetoric in effect in public discourse right now
be you don't know that there is a deeply human component in
on the line in a relationship and
what is truly valuable in our relationship is not historic events or
our respective national narratives but the nuances that color and
reach our daily encounters higher education
has provided me with the opportunity to encounter many individuals
educators in particular who have led me to these realizations.
For those of you who are educators I would like to thank you for
having contributed to the person that I am today
even if none of you here has been involved in my personal education
I ignored that at some point you have impacted the life of someone like me.
My presence here today is proof that for
many people like me are not mere abstractions and
their lives are not that Thurman by a nine digit number or the lack thereof.
It was because of educators like you that I have that I have grown to realize how
my story is part of your society even when many will want to deny me a place in it.
I am now by the way the first some Mexican men to appreciate
the equality in American educator's.
While exiled in the US during the Mexican Revolution or
save us considerable one of the greatest minds Mexico has ever produced
came across a letter written by a grammar school teacher who wished to contribute
to the education of children in Mexico with a one dollar donation
he cited this as evidence of the altruism and seventies ness
of some American educators even early in the twentieth century.
But there is another reason I bring out the name but can sell at this juncture.
And this has to do with an important shift the house occurred in recent years
in which higher education institutions like Illinois have young people
with similar stories to mine just like me but concern those for
some Mexican national with an ambivalent relationship with the United States
however unlike me he came from my class of privilege.
In fact his position in society was such that
from an early age he knew that he is this to me was to played a leading
role in the nation to date to day to live and
work of us consider those is subject of a study in many universities
I chose what can sell us but
I could have chosen any other name from a very long list of people.
For over a century now American academia has become
this nation for the Mexican Illustrated class.
I am speaking of.
US catalyst for in this quest the young one B.
You are all going to.
Be a not very long list of all the years.
However the history of the Mexican intelligentsia
in American academia is a complete opposite of mine.
In fact my experience might be closer to that of many of the students here today.
Immigrants themselves or children of economic migrants
a class of people who have traditionally been denied access to higher education
be had because of economic hardship lack of proper preparation or legal status.
This is a story of social struggle and Gratian the story of a group
of people trying to abandon the margins of society and
move toward its center these topics I believe are of great
prevalence to American academia at this particular political moment.
As we see this country transform and
reach itself institutions like Illinois are becoming more and
more instrumental in this change by opening their doors to a population for
whom our college education has historically been.
A population who without any doubt will participate
fully in the shaping of America's future prosperity
but this is not to say that our college experience has been problem free.
If their journey through college resembles mine at all
then most likely it has been marked by a deep inside me.
Why would I do with expires some of you are probably wondering.
Right at this moment.
If they're genuine political will in Congress to move forward with
legalization How can I throw the word of a pathological liar
in the worst case scenario how will I survive if I am only sent back
to a country whose land which I no longer master whose culture I only have
to share are still rooted in the class system inequality and
injustice that expelled my parents from their own home in the first place
our country that is falling apart these are not easy questions but
they are questions and concerns that many of us are facing a sad reality
this brings me back to why the role of education is so essential in our lives.
It provides us guidance in times of uncertainty.
Intelligence in a world of ruled by the stupidity it is just to see our situation
as a complex social problem rather than as a black and white issue.
It gives us a chance to express our concerns and
to try to find creative solutions or
through political action or by building alliances with all the others.
What my experience may resonate with some of you I understand.
That there are other people in the audience who might be a roll in their eyes
right now thinking of just how much I had bought
into the narrative of the white savior.
All I can tell you speaking from personal experience alone is this.
In academia I have learned that the world is way richer and
far more complicated than I thought.
And the mentality God in the trap of oppression and victim is some will
only learn to see the world through the prism of oppression and victim is some.
While I am I have been singled out by bigotry and ignorance more than once
my presence here today suggests that the relationship my relationship
with this society cannot be reduced to Lost Episodes along
I can now add in good conscience throw away my volume of Emerson's essays
one of the main pillars of my education based on his opinion
that Mexicans will poison American society where strange and
exquisite poison so you Amerzone are welcome Orly and shit
of course I am not naive I understand that much of the toxic public discourse
playing out in American society right now has gone straight out of the Ivy League.
In the writings of the late Harvard professor.
For example one can find the prophecy of intolerance and.
In fact in our society today so
when I say that I'm here to honor higher education I am a word that
even in academia there are people broad vision and small minds.
There are dollars who have a dog in the humanities but
who have failed to call debate a humanity of their own.
Instead of thinking to understand the complexity and
richness of the world they promote a view that is brilliant and tribal.
In an age of power all will advance in science and
technology they hold views that are very scientific and really mentary.
Rather done and reach in their lives but you observe in their surroundings they
burry their heads in the sand like ostriches to prevent the natural light and
fresh air from reaching them lest by God.
Unclog their mortgage.
But what you mean they're right they are ready to come here and say that there
are some in academia whose thinking is in need of March clarification.
It is the lessons in critical thinking I learned in college
they believe if the universities are the natural place to the difficult issues.
And in particular doors that involved our sense of morality and civility.
Higher education helps to recall the capacity to listen and
then argue in a respectful manner to appreciate the advantages
of living in a society that's bluer all our society
where we all protect free speech I thought precious value.
And called it out when there is kidnapped by our right bigotry
for me personally higher education has meant counting in under tools and
the moral urgency to explore questions related to their essential but
unappreciated role of the undocumented in our society.
Because because this is not an issue that just disappears once
conversations within Ivory Tower and let's take a moment to contemplate it.
This thing for instance about the injustice the growth into the net did not
even basic human rights to the men and women who pick the berries we need for
breakfast who prepare our meals at some of the restaurants right here and
Green Street.
Who more.
Who clean our offices and who on top of providing services for
our essential Concord also contribute billions
of dollars every day to the Social Security Administration.
Money destined to God the chicks to current and future retirees
but not of the eleven million undocumented.
This country within your country
this nation of shallows has a population nearly the equal or.
Nearly equal to that of the entire state of Illinois
a population of all of third the size of Canada at.
Least think about the possibilities and that they're not city of a people
eager to achieve nothing although there are modest living.
Think of the young men and women so desperate to wash dishes for
seven dollars an hour allowing each one of us to leave comparably and
cheaply think about their journey how they are willing to put their lives on the line
to risk dying in the back of a truck to reach their destination.
Think about our domestic workers who care for children and
how tonight many of them may not make it back home to their own American born child
think about this child's future the relationship he will have with his country
of birth are double up and caught in a legal and emotional limbo.
Let's think about the current plight of the tired the poor the masses.
And now think about the degree of inhumanity required to maintain this war.
And also about what that this regard in the core values of those who
were really into deep too deep in the crisis or already break Arias condition
it is only because I used to observe these contradictions and
articulate them in a narrative of gratefulness and
deception that I have the chance and the honor to be here today.
But none of that will have been possible
if I hadn't sat in that classroom in my first day of college.
As I've already shared with you I was exposed to the ideas of Plato and
how he thought that the world we see is nothing more than
the shadow of reality because we're all prisoners in a cave
the world we see and the reality that life underneath these are contradictions
that not only individuals by entire nations must grapple with.
I represent one of those contradictions I am the equal product
of both the generosity and the hypocrisy of this country
I have been blessed by the greatness of this period and
doomed by the Perry ness of his politics God between red and
blue I have spent more of my life inhabiting in a marquee legal limbo
I am the result of a political system that knows exactly what it is
doing when he prolongs the agony of eleven million individuals
eleven million families on the verge of collapse.
Higher education has provided me with the tools they needed to articulate
arguments like the ones I've been trying to convey here today
it woken me in this classroom it's true sanctuaries of knowledge and
redemption I mean if you lose that point in the life that Dering have
march of our future today I am a very different person from
the young man who arrived in this country now this beacon a word of English and
with nothing more than an eighth grade education.
But the fact that I can stand in these very chamber
to speak to you in your own name which about matters of morality and
civility effect in your own society today is
a reflection of their success of this noble institution not mine.
It is proof that the inside of Thomas Hobbes
when well beyond his political loyalty and there is my be
one of those eternal truths that guide us like an inner compass.
After all an English morn arc my fall
an American fascist my rise and fall but
our human capacity for he for civil and moral deliberation will net.
Thank you all so much for your time.
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