Convocation Speech Seeing The Invisible By Traci Gourdine Summary
As a successful writer and professor of English, Traci Gourdine expresses the significance of “being seen” and having the confidence from your mentors in “Convocation Speech: Seeing the Invisible,” by sharing stories of dear friends and her experience as well. The passage that I believe is best considered as her thesis is, “Before I can teach I must see the individual before me. Too many have been told they cannot achieve, that they are weak and hopeless with math, science, reading or writing. That the best they can do is hide or feign competence. I’m not saying that I have to be a social worker or a therapist in order to teach. I’m simply saying that there is an innate common need within all of us to be seen, truly seen as individual with