The community will be looking to you, graduates from DGS, for leadership, in your various chosen careers, to help build a better tomorrow as your predecessors have. In speaking of leadership, one can think of Adolf Hitler, Richard Nixon, and Ferdinand Marcos on the one hand, and Winston Churchill, John Kennedy and Mohandas Gandhi on the other hand. They were all leaders who made their way into history, but they evoke different sensation when their names are mentioned. Particularly in public life, but also in private businesses, honesty and integrity are essential aspects of good character in a leader. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Leaders have a moral responsibility to their followers.
They must be able to conceive and articulate a vision that can lift people out of their preoccupations, and unite them in the pursuit of bigger goals worthy of their best efforts. The ability to lift and inspire requires a high degree of communications skills and personal commitment. To communicate effectively requires not only a high degree of language proficiency, but also passion and empathy. I was most impressed and pleased to hear Mrs Lau's recital of DGS girls' performance in English and Chinese this last year. You are therefore well prepared to be our future leaders.