大学院大学至善館第二期生 学生代表卒業スピーチ (5分/日英全文)

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日本語スピーチ

大学院大学至善館2期生、田中美咲です。

この度は、このような場でここに立たせていただけていることをとても嬉しく思います。

まずは、これまで私たち学生を、学びの冒険へと導いてくださったファカルティーのみなさん、そして私たちの旅路を見守ってくださった事務局のみなさんに心からお礼を申し上げます。

私自身は、奨学生として、十分な蓄えもないままに学びたいと声を上げ、そんな何者でもない若者に、チャンスを与えてくださったみなさまには心からお礼を申し上げます。

ありがとうございます。

そして20ヶ月共に、想像していた以上の予習と復習と課題の嵐の中を渡り歩きながら熟議を交わした同級生のみんなに、心からの感謝を伝えさせてください。本当にありがとう。

改めて振り返ってみると、この20ヶ月の学生生活では、想定外のことがたくさんありました。

初めの「COMPANY」の講義の時は、知らない言葉が飛び交い、なんとかついていくために、アーカイブされる動画を1分ずつ止めては知らない単語を調べては繰り返し。あのとき、果たしてわたしはこのまま2年間やっていけるだろうかとずっと不安でした。

そして最も悲鳴をあげたのが「FINANCE」の講義。これはまさに、全てが全くわからず、完全にお手上げでした。この講義を理解するために、別のビジネススクールに通おうかと思ったくらいです（笑

また、同級生たちとの視点や価値観の違いは、私にとって驚きの連続でした。「社会」「世界」「利益」といった言葉の捉えるその意味合いが違うなど、それは新しい発見が多くとても勉強になりました。

そしてなにより、哲学・宗教・社会学・東洋思想といった、これまで触れる機会の少なかった視点や世界との出会いは、とても刺激的でした。この20ヶ月は講義を終えるごとに、これまでみてきた日常が音を立てながら変わって様が手にとるようにわかりました。

そして一番想定外だったのは、また起業することになったことです。

私は、入学前に8年間非営利団体を運営し、解散させていたので、もう次はないだろうとおもっていたのですが…

20ヶ月前の私に言ってやりたいです、あんたまた相変わらず起業するんやでって。

私は「ENVISION」の講義の中でふつふつを沸き上がった構想を具現化し、
「CORE」・「LEADERSHIP」といった講義の中で自分自身を見つめ直し、その後受けていく講義・ゼミで、グループワークで同じチームになった仲間やゼミメンバーに何度も助けてもらいながら、形にしていきました。

そして最後は、人生を通して実現したいことをみつけ、在学中に事業をたちあげました。

至善館の講義一つ一つで学んだこと全てが私にとって宝石のようで、そしてそれを一人だけでは単なる石にしてしまっていただろうところを、磨き方を教えてくれ、一緒に磨く楽しみを教えてくれた仲間たちがいたから、かがやいたのだとおもいます。

我々はどこから来たのか 我々は何者か 我々はどこへ行くのか

この問いは、入学したその日に野田教授が私たち学生一同問うていただいた言葉です。

私は思います。

我々は、この想像の及ばない、広く深く、多くの歴史と文化が折り重なり、
常に変化し続けるこの世界からここに来て、

我々は、失敗と成功を繰り返し、思考停止せず学び続ける存在として、

我々は、ネガティブにもポジティブにも転びうる、脆くて儚い未来に向けて、

いつまでも走り続けるのだと思います。

それは終わりのない長い長い人生になるとおもいますが、
それでも至善館での学びは、
この人生の意味合いを大きく変えたと思います。

これからの至善館と、同級生と、自分自身の未来が、楽しみでしかたありません。

田中美咲

英語スピーチ

Introduction
I’m Misaki Tanaka, and I am a second-year student of the Japanese class at Shizenkan University. I’m glad to be here on this occasion.
First of all, I would like to express my thanks to all of the faculty members who have led us students on this adventure of learning, and to all the administrators who have helped us on our journey. As for me, as a recipient of a scholarship, I’d like to say thanks to all of you for giving me the chance to become a student. Thank you so much.

I would also like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all of my classmates, with whom I have spent the last 20 months discussing and debating through a storm of preparation, review, and assignments that I had never imagined. Thank you so much.

Reflections
Looking back, there have been many unexpected things that have happened in the past 20 months of my student life.

In the first lecture “COMPANY”, the lecture and group conversations were full of unfamiliar words, and in order to keep up, I had to stop the session recordings one minute at a time, look up the unfamiliar words, and then watch the video again. At that time, actually, I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to make it through the next two years.

And the thing that made me scream the most was “FINANCE”. I had no idea what was going on, and I was completely out of my mind. No matter how many times I stopped the video, I still couldn’t understand it. I even thought about going to another business school for understanding this lecture. Hehe

It was also surprising to see how different the perspectives and values were from those of my classmates. Perhaps because I myself have been in the social sector for most of my working life, I learned a lot of new things from them, such as the different connotations of words like “society,” “world,” and “profit”.

Above all, it was stimulating to encounter perspectives and worlds that I had never had the opportunity to come into contact with before, such as philosophy, religion, sociology, and Eastern thought. In the last 20 months, as I finished each lecture, I could see how my daily life was changing with each passing sound.

And the most unexpected thing was that I started my own business again.

I had run a non-profit organization for eight years before enrolling in the program and dissolved it, so I thought I wouldn’t have another chance...I wish I could say to myself 20 months ago, “you’re still going to start another business”.

In the ENVISION lectures, I was able to materialize the idea that came to me, and in the CORE and LEADERSHIP lectures, I was able to reflect on myself, and in the subsequent lectures and seminars, I was able to give shape to it with the help of my fellow students and seminar members who were on the same team in the group work. In the lectures and seminars that I took afterward, I was helped many times by my fellow students and seminar members who were on the same team as me in group work. And then I found what I wanted to achieve in life and started my business.

Everything I learned in each lecture at Shizenkan was like a jewel to me.
If I had been alone, I would have been reduced to a mere stone.
I would have been reduced to a mere stone on my own, but thanks to my friends who taught me how to polish it and how to enjoy polishing it together, it finally took shape. I can’t thank you enough, and it’s been a dream come true for the past two years.

Where did we come from, who are we, where are we going?

These questions were asked by Professor Noda-san to all of us students on the day we entered the school. It gave us a chance to rethink ourselves at every turn.

I think,

We have come here from this unimaginable, wide, and deep world, where many histories and cultures overlap and are constantly changing.

We are here as beings who repeatedly fail and succeed, who never stop thinking and learning.

I believe that we will always be running towards a fragile and fleeting future that can turn out to be both negative and positive.

It is a long and endless life.
It will be a long, long life with no end in sight.

Even so, I believe that the lessons I learned at the Shizenkan have greatly changed the meaning of this life.

I can’t help but look forward to the future of Shizenkan, my classmates, and myself.

Misaki