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"Imagine UBC Vancouver 6 September 2011 Professor Stephen J. Toope President and Vice-Chancellor The University of British Columbia  O Canada. It\u2019s a beautiful anthem, isn\u2019t it? I think it practically qualifies as a \u2018pop\u2019 song now, thanks to Mark Donnelly. Nobody sings it like him. No one else has ever made it cool for us all to sing along the way he has. And we do! Most of us know all the words \u2026 and you international students will soon learn them. Do you remember, by any chance, when you first learned the words to \u201CO Canada?\u201D Maybe you were actually living somewhere else in the world, and heard them on television, maybe even during the Olympics. Maybe you were in the process of becoming a Canadian citizen. Or maybe you were six years old when you first learned those words, sitting cross-legged on the floor of your elementary school gymnasium with what seemed like thousands of other kids, half excited, half scared, everything new, nothing familiar\u2014your very first student assembly. Words. They\u2019re funny things. Some words, the more you use them, the less they mean. Like \u201Cawesome,\u201D or \u201Csynergy,\u201D or \u201Clike, whatever.\u201D Other  \u000CImagine UBC Vancouver 6 September 2011 Page 2 of 6  words, like the lyrics to \u201CO Canada,\u201D take on new and deeper layers of meaning the longer you live with them. Two such words, words that I think may be among the most powerful in the English language, are IMAGINE and CREATE. Why? Simple answer, really: Because that\u2019s what we\u2019re here to do. And I don\u2019t just mean today; I mean for the whole of your university career. Some might even say it\u2019s what we\u2019re here to do with our lives. Imagination and creation may be the only two skills we\u2019re born with, that we don\u2019t need to be taught or trained how to use. Your parents unpack the new 22-inch TV, you spot the empty carton and see \u2026 a race car. They can\u2019t afford the Barbie Dream House\u00AE so you make one out of shoeboxes and toilet paper rolls. The park next to your school is a magic forest. Your back porch is a Broadway stage. You write stories, rehearse shows, play in a band, draft plans, build forts, train every morning at dawn, look at the world through a microscope, the universe through a telescope, build a car from the engine up, shoot movies, learn codes and languages, invent iPhone apps \u2026 all to get \u2026 here. To IMAGINE. To CREATE. We call this first day at UBC \u201CIMAGINE\u201D in Vancouver, and \u201CCREATE\u201D in the Okanagan. The names signify that here, at this extra-ordinary time in your  \u000CImagine UBC Vancouver 6 September 2011 Page 3 of 6  life, you\u2019re about to put your skills into practice at a whole new level. The two events have different names because you can\u2019t have one without the other. Picture it: Imagination without creation stays forever in the realm of fantasy. It leads to frustration. And creation without imagination lacks vision and forethought and power. It leads to mediocrity. But together, they are the foundation of every triumph, great or small, that humankind has ever achieved. So how do you get from IMAGINATION to CREATION? Well, for me, it\u2019s a short flight on a very small airplane. For you, the answer is \u2026 play. That\u2019s right: play. Surprised? You thought I was going to say \u201Chard work,\u201D didn\u2019t you? Well, that starts next week. Psychologist Carl Jung said, \u201CThe creative mind plays with the object it loves.\u201D Today is a reminder to follow your passions during these next few years\u2014in the classes you choose, the clubs you join, the questions you ask, the people you meet, and the new ideas and perspectives you make your own. To the degree that the hard work of the next few years becomes play, you will find yourself able to take what you imagine and make it real in the physical world. Let me say that again: You will be able to take what you imagine and make it real. It sounds like magic, doesn\u2019t it?  \u000CImagine UBC Vancouver 6 September 2011 Page 4 of 6  You might be wondering at this point what a university president is doing talking about play and imagination and creation and magic. Maybe you\u2019re asking yourself, Is this a West Coast thing? Should I have gone to U of T after all? But before the future engineers and physicists and commerce students get too worried, let me share just a few more powerful words from some other powerful voices: Physicist Albert Einstein said, \u201CImagination is more important than knowledge.\u201D Business leader Peter Drucker said, \u201CThe best way to predict the future is to create it.\u201D World-renowned educator Sir Ken Robinson said, \u201CCreativity is as important as literacy.\u201D And artist Pablo Picasso said, \u201CEverything you can imagine is real.\u201D What university is for, this university in particular, is to give your mind every opportunity to play with the objects it loves. Ideas, theories, questions, problems, philosophies, blueprints, equations, formulae, stories, symptoms, statistics, songs. We call UBC \u201Ca place of mind\u201D and a world of worlds is about to open up for your mind to play with. So dream big! Today is meant to give you a taste of what you might yet create if only you let your imagination loose. Look around you! This is your playground, and all of  \u000CImagine UBC Vancouver 6 September 2011 Page 5 of 6  us are your co-creators. These people will inform your ideas, challenge your ideals, and change your mind. You will do the same for us. When I was your age, a young man wrote a song about coming together to imagine a better world. All these decades later \uF04A it is still the anthem, the \u201CO Canada\u201D for all those of us who are committed to creating that world. You probably know the words: Imagine all the people Living life in peace ... Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world In whatever your chosen area of study, in whatever your chosen field of work \u2026 imagine that. Choose that. Create that. I wish you every success with your studies, and look forward to the day we\u2019re all together again, upon your graduation. Welcome to the University of British Columbia.  \u000CImagine UBC Vancouver 6 September 2011 Page 6 of 6  [pause for applause] And now, I am pleased to introduce to you your Alma Mater Society President, Mr. Jeremy McElroy.  "@en
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