I liked your post very much, Karolinke! As an ACS alumna, I also asked myself the question why Berbatov, and I also answered it with 1) ok he's a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF so he must have something to say and 2) if his speech is not that good, who cares - it's all about the graduates anyway...

But I think that's perhaps just not good enough. Words can be tremendously powerful, especially when someone delivers them in the right way.  A speaker can - if he/she is minded - give a sense, or a hint, of what's ahead, of all the exciting and daunting paths these students will walk in the next years. They need these words of encouragement and warning, and perhaps they need to hear them from someone they genuinely respect, or like, or find provocative...at least, that's how I have always thought of graduation speeches. So it is perhaps not that important that Berbatov has (or not) a degree from high school or college. But perhaps it is important that an opportunity was missed, to find those words that resonate with many of the hopes and anxieties of this year's ACS graduates.