Speech delivered by Charles Handy for the Schools Curriculum Award. Handy relates how his particular academic upbringing inhibited his development and growth as an individual, and how the Schools Curriculum Award is a recognition that times have changed and that students are now encouraged to engage more with the world and to improve it. The speech goes on to discuss Handy's realization that there are all types of intelligences, and he describes seven of them, stating that they are all important. He concludes his speech with an anecdote about a man, unknown to most, whose deed planting acorns resulted in the successful flourish of several thousand trees and, therefore, an ecosystem change in France. Handy uses this anecdote to deliver his message that one doesn’t have to be famous or great to leave a mark on the world. People need only to believe in themselves and have faith in what is possible in the world.
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