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Blank Canvas Project (end) Previously the UPSR results were announced publicly. The top scorer or the A-students would receive prizes immediately after the announcement. The underachievers, on the other hand, got nothing more than a piece of paper. UPSR result which mainly comprised of E’s and D’s. I have always seen this as emotionally bias and unfair. In the light of this realization, I developed a tradition. A Motivational speech seemed like a correct thing to do. The bes t prize in the world a teacher could give? It doesn’t matter what grades they got. The amount of A’s or E’s in their UPSR result does not define them. It doesn’t shape them. It also doesn’t make them a more successful or less successful than the other. It doesn’t matter. Instead, the amount of HIT they have taken the way to achieve one DOES. It WILL make them better. The pain they endure WILL shape them, and the way they perceive the world WILL form their own ways of dealing things in their life. Mo