教学素材 | 致大一新生——来自美国名校校长的新生寄语

本篇教学素材为耶鲁大学、布朗大学、哥伦比亚大学开学典礼校长致辞。三位校长阐释大学的意义与人生信念，并为新生送上祝福。素材包含视频及文本，适用于视听说、口语、演讲、英美文化等课程。

关键词：开学第一课，校长致辞，英美文化，视听说，口语，演讲

九月开学季，开学第一课。小编带大家一同聆听世界名校开学典礼上的校长致辞：耶鲁大学校长苏必德（Peter Salovey）鼓励学生用好奇心驱动无限可能；布朗大学校长克里斯蒂娜·派克森（Christina Hull Paxson）解读布朗大学的精神共识；哥伦比亚大学校长李·卡罗尔·布林格 （Lee Carroll Bollinger）呼吁学生牢记大学追求真知的本质。

耶鲁大学：保持好奇，探索未知

苏必德（Peter Salovey），耶鲁大学第23任校长，心理学家

2019年新生开学典礼上，耶鲁大学校长苏必德以“A Culture of Curiosity”为题寄语新生，鼓励他们永远保持对未知世界的好奇心，以开放的心态面对世界，在探索中培养问题意识与思辨能力；在提问中试错，收获世界真挚的回馈；勇于改变，积极走出舒适区，挑战自我，提升自我。

耶鲁大学2019年开学典礼校长致辞

寄语新生

• I want to encourage you to approach college unimpressed by how impressive you are; have more questions than answers; admit to being puzzled or confused; be willing to say, “I don’t know…but I want to find out” ; have the courage to say, “Perhaps I am wrong, and others are right.”

• We are here to ask questions—questions about one another and about the world around us.

• Be open to different viewpoints and experiences, and see them as opportunities to learn—even if sometimes you get your hand bit.

• Knowing we didn’t have all the answers and taking an inquisitive, curious attitude allowed us the opportunity to create something new.

布朗大学：坚守底线，重塑共识

克里斯蒂娜·派克森（Christina Hull Paxson），布朗大学第19任校长，美国经济学家、公共事务专家

布朗大学校长克里斯蒂娜•派克森在2018年开学典礼上解读布朗大学的精神内核：坚持求真、增进知识与互相理解、承诺尊重人之尊严，并鼓励学生坚持实践求真精神与人本主义，达成共识，为社会服务。

布朗大学2018年开学典礼校长致辞

寄语新生

Pursuit of truth; belief in the transformative power of knowledge; respect for the dignity of everyone. These are the values that unify all of us at Brown—the faculty, staff, medical students, graduate students, and undergraduates—including the great Class of 2022! 

These are the values that turn differences into opportunities;

That turn the unknown into adventure;

And that turn education into true learning.

哥伦比亚大学：追求真知，捍卫自由

李•卡罗尔•布林格 （Lee Carroll Bollinger），哥伦比亚大学第19任校长，法学教育家

哥伦比亚大学校长李•卡罗尔•布林格在2019年开学典礼上教导学生应坚守追求真理、探求真相；应保持好奇心，维护学术规范，承担社会责任，共同捍卫言论自由的环境。

寄语新生

• Universities are all about knowledge, about discovering truth, about unraveling the mysteries of life and the natural world we inhabit, about grasping and holding in one’s mind the complexities of existence.

• Our essence is in the sense of wonder, curiosity, and the steadfast pursuit of understanding things better than we know now.

• Every time you enter a Core Curriculum class, or any class, or feel the exhilaration of learning and thinking something new, or engage in the campus debates on the pressing issues of our time, I hope a part of your mind will remind you of these deeper principles at work and of where they came from.

素材来自耶鲁大学、布朗大学、哥伦比亚大学官方网站，可查看下列网址获取演讲原文：

耶鲁大学官方网站：

https://president.yale.edu/speeches-writings/speeches/culture-curiosity

布朗大学官方网站：

https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/president/statements/20180904-convocation

哥伦比亚大学官方网站：

https://president.columbia.edu/content/president-bollingers-2019-convocation-address

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