t Lane Community College; I am the type of person who needs to have the lessons shown to me in a new way, when teachers express their ideas like this I begin to learn.We are a nation full of inspiration and yet we do nothing about it. We came to this new world to be free, to be different, to pull away from the old and create the new. The future of this country is in your hands, rise to the occasion pull together and become the leaders your fathers wanted you to become. I understand the importance of the above statement and how it needed to be said at that time. I can only hope that the children of today can rise to the occasion and keep this world moving in a positive direction.The citizens of today should keep the traditions of old sacred, respect the process and trust that knowledge is power, but in the same breath turn inward and let the inspiration be felt by everyone.Emerson suggested that we should pull away from the traditions of England and create a country distinctive to its people, and help form a culture that is unique to this nation. It seems that this little speech might have taken root in some of the men sitting in the room. It might have even moved through generations ending up with the current conditions of these United States.In closing: Emerson wanted to inspire the people who sat in the room that day, he felt that Americans needed to develop their own cultural tradition instead of depending on Europe. These men were the leaders of tomorrow but they possessed stagnant ideas, he wanted them to look inwards and be more than a Scholar more than a teacher. Emerson wanted them to start a revolutionary of inspirational proportions. This conclusion is reflective in respects to the way I want to live my life, I am one of those people who rarely take an opportunity and run with it. I do much better when I have a motivator, in a sense Emerson’s speech was just that, motivation....
