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C O N C O R D A C A D E M Y M A G A Z I N E F A L L 2 0 0 934takes roughly a lifetime to change the world.Changing the world often requires not justchanging minds, but replacing them with freshnew minds—without preconceived notions,whether about scientific possibility or humanpotential. In that respect, in your openness,you—the next generation—are our most preciousresource.What will be the projects of your generation?The ways you will, working together, changethe world? The causes larger than yourselves? Icannot wait to see.But I would be remiss if I left you with theimpression that all of the important projects of alifetime are played out on a large stage. Theprojects of a lifetime come in all sizes—and sizeand importance are often not correlated.To my mind, the single greatest project ofa lifetime is having children. It is the most powerfulway to change the world. This life projectobeys the same rules that I have been talkingabout. It takes an entire lifetime to fulfill thejob. Its sublime satisfaction is being part ofsomething greater than yourself. And it isutterly impossible to plan in advance how itwill all turn out.Tomorrow you are bound for college—and beyond that, for life. Today, you are stillour children.What we all wish for you—and here I knowI speak for all the parents—is that you willsomeday know the same joys that we havefound in our roles, the same joys and satisfactionsthat we feel on days like today.To the Concord Academy graduatingclass of 2009, we love you, we congratulateyou, and we wish you well on your journeysahead.