哈佛大学福斯特校长在清华大学演讲的启示

哈佛大学福斯特校长（2015年）3月17日在清华大学的演讲虽然题目是气候变化，但实际内容远远超出这一具体范畴。讲话中吸引我的是她开放的思想，长远的目光和宽阔的视野。她的讲话触及大学教育的本质，即大学应该是一个什么样的地方？大学生在学校里应该学习什么？她的讲话甚至触及全球性话题。

这里分享讲话中给我印象最深的some remarks:

1. Universities are especially good at thinking different.

2. Global problems require global partners.

3. Our variety supports our strength. United there little we cannot accomplish.

4. Knowledge emerges from debate, from disagreement, from questions, from doubt,from recognizing that every path must be open because any path might yield an answer.

5.Universities must be places where any and every topic can be broached, where any and every question can be asked.

6. Seeing beyond the horizon has been higher learning's special concern.

7. Universities must nurture such debate because discovery comes from the intellectual freedom to explore that rests at the heart of how we define our fundamental identity and values.

8. A third necessity is training students who will ask and answer big questions.

9. We expose students to diverse points of view.

10. The deepest knowledge joins with the freshest point of view.

如果觉得这些话比较抽象，推荐阅读全文，里面有许多具体例子说明这些观点。

作者：王立礼，1964年毕业于北京外国语大学英语系，留校任教至2003年退休。为《高级英语》编者，与朱永涛主编《英语国家社会与文化入门》，参与编写的书包括《欧洲文化入门》、《现代大学英语精读》第五和第六册、《美国文学名著精选》、《英语视听说教程》、《华裔美国作家研究》等。

作者：王立礼 特别致谢 

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