哈佛毕业大陆生代表演讲

第一篇：哈佛毕业大陆生代表演讲

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大陆第一位享最高殊荣在哈佛毕业典礼上的演讲

美国东部时间5月26日上午10点，哈佛大学毕业典礼上，在湖南农村长大、上大学才第一次进城的中国小伙儿何江作为哈佛研究生优秀毕业生代表发言。

长大大了解到，这相当于哈佛大学给予毕业生的最高荣誉——从全校数万名毕业生中各选出一名本科生和研究生，代表毕业生发言。

哈佛校方向中国青年报·中青在线记者确认该校生物系博士毕业生何江是第一位享此殊荣的中国大陆学生，与他同台演讲的特邀嘉宾是著名导演史蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格。

这位中国小伙儿在哈佛的毕业典礼上都说了些什么？何江第一时间给长大大传回了他的演讲稿件，让我们一起来看看吧！

蜘蛛咬伤轶事

想当初，在我读初中的时候，有一次，一只毒蜘蛛咬伤了我的右手。我问我妈妈该怎么处理——我妈妈并没有带我去看医生，而是决定用火疗的方法治疗我的伤口。

她在我的手上包了好几层棉花，棉花上喷撒了白酒，在我的嘴里放了一双筷子，然后打火点燃了棉花。热量逐渐渗透过棉花，开始炙烤我的右手。灼烧的疼痛让我忍不住想喊叫，可嘴里的筷子却让我发不出声来。我只能看着我的手被火烧着，一分钟，两分钟，直到妈妈熄灭了火苗。

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你看，我在中国的农村长大，在那个时候，我的村庄还是一个类似前工业时代的传统村落。在我出生的时候，我的村子里面没有汽车，没有电话，没有电，甚至也没有自来水。我们自然不能轻易的获得先进的现代医疗资源。那个时候也没有一个合适的医生可以来帮我处理蜘蛛咬伤的伤口。

在座的如果有生物背景的人，你们或许已经理解到了我妈妈使用的这个简单的治疗手段的基本原理：高热可以让蛋白质变性，而蜘蛛的毒液也是一种蛋白质。这样一种传统的土方法实际上有它一定的理论依据，想来也是挺有意思的。但是，作为哈佛大学生物化学的博士，我现在知道在我初中那个时候，已经有更好的，没有那么痛苦的，也没有那么有风险的治疗方法了。于是我便忍不住会问自己，为什么我在当时没有能够享用到这些更为先进的治疗方法呢？

蜘蛛咬伤的事故已经过去大概十五年了。我非常高兴的向在座的各位报告一下，我的手还是完好的。但是，我刚刚提到的这个问题这些年来一直停在我的脑海中，而我也时不时会因为先进科技知识在世界上不同地区的不平等分布而困扰。现如今，我们人类已经学会怎么进行人类基因编辑了，也研究清楚了很多个癌症发生发展的原因。我们甚至可以利用一束光来控制我们大脑内神经元的活动。每年生物医学的研究都会给我们带来不一样突破和进步---其中有不少令人振奋，也极具革命颠覆性的成果。然而，尽管我们人类已经在科研上有了无数的建树，在怎样把这些最前沿的科学研究带到世界最需要该技术的地区这件事情上，我们有时做的差强人意。世界银行的数据显示，世界上大约有12%的人口每天的生活水平仍然低于2美元。营养不良每年导致三百万儿童死亡。将近3亿人口仍然受到疟疾的干扰。在世界各地，我们经常看到类似的由贫穷，2 / 8

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疾病和自然匮乏导致的科学知识传播的受阻。现代社会里习以为常的那些救生常识经常在这些欠发达或不发达地区未能普及。于是，在世界上仍有很多地区，人们只能依赖于用火疗这一简单粗暴的方式来治理蜘蛛咬伤事故。

在哈佛读书期间，我有切身体会到先进的科技知识能够既简单又深远的帮助到社会上很多的人。本世纪初的时候，禽流感在亚洲多个国家肆虐。那个时候，村庄里的农民听到禽流感就像听到恶魔施咒一样，对其特别的恐惧。乡村的土医疗方法对这样一个疾病也是束手无策。农民对于普通感冒和流感的区别并不是很清楚，他们并不懂得流感比普通感冒可能更加致命。而且，大部分人对于科学家所发现的流感病毒能够跨不同物种传播这一事实并不清楚。

于是，在我意识到这些知识背景，及简单的将受感染的不同物种隔离开来以减缓疾病传播，并决定将这些知识传递到我的村庄时，我的心里第一次有了一种作为未来科学家的使命感。但这种使命感不只停在知识层面，它也是我个人道德发展的重要转折点，我自我理解的作为国际社会一员的责任感。

哈佛的教育教会我们学生敢于拥有自己的梦想，勇于立志改变世界。在毕业典礼这样一个特别的日子，我们在座的毕业生都会畅想我们未来的伟大征程和冒险。对我而言，我在此刻不可避免的还会想到我的家乡。我成长的经历教会了我作为一个科学家，积极的将我们所会的知识传递给那些急需这些知识的人是多么的重要。因为利用那些我们已经拥有的科技知识，我们能够轻而易举的帮助我的家乡，还有千千万万类似的村庄，让他们生活的世界变成一个我们现代社会看起来习以为常的场所，而这样一件事，是我们每一个毕业生都能够做的，也力所能及能够做到的。

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但问题是，我们愿意来做这样的努力吗？

比以往任何时候都多，我们的社会强调科学和创新。但我们社会同样需要注意的一个重心是分配知识到那些真正需要的地方。改变世界并不意味着每个人都要做一个大突破。改变世界可以非常简单。它可以简单得变成作为世界不同地区的沟通者，并找出更多创造性的方法将知识传递给像我母亲或农民这样的群体。同时，改变世界也意味着我们的社会，作为一个整体，能够更清醒的认识到科技知识的更加均衡的分布，是人类社会发展的一个关键环节，而我们也能够一起奋斗将此目标变成现实。

如果我们能够做到这些，或许，将来有一天，一个在农村被毒蜘蛛咬伤的少年或许不用火疗这样粗暴的方法来治疗伤口，而是去看医生得到更为先进的医疗护理。

一名在湖南农村长大、上大学才第一次进城的中国小伙儿，5月26日，将要站在哈佛大学毕业典礼的讲台上，作为哈佛研究生优秀毕业生代表发言。这相当于哈佛大学给予毕业生的最高荣誉——从全校数万名毕业生中各选出一名本科生和研究生，代表毕业生发言。

哈佛校方确认该校生物系博士毕业生何江是第一位享此殊荣的中国大陆学生。当天，与他同台演讲的特邀嘉宾将是著名导演史蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格。

这不是他第一次获得一所大学毕业生的最高荣誉。何江曾经获得中国科学技术大学本科生最高荣誉奖——郭沫若奖学金，并作为获奖代表发言。

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“现在乡村逐渐流行读书无用论，认为寒门很难再出贵子。这样的观点让我觉得挺无奈的。”何江在接受中国青年报·中青在线记者采访后，特地用短信方式再次补充自己的观点，“教育能够改变一个人的生活轨迹，能够把一个人从一个世界带到另一个不同的世界。我希望我的成长经历，能给那些还在路上的农村学生一点鼓励，让他们看到坚持的希望。”

再苦再穷也不让儿子成为“留守儿童”

上世纪80年代的湖南农村，像当时中国所有的农村一样，以土坯房为主，孩子的零食以糖水为主。新中国成立以后的第一代“留守儿童”就在那时诞生，越来越多的农村父母到上海、广州等经济发达城市打工，老人照顾几个年幼在家的孩子。

1988年，湖南省长沙市宁乡县南田坪乡停钟村的一户农民家中，何江呱呱坠地。与村里其他农户明显不同的是，虽然家里经济条件一般，但何江的父母却有个坚定的信念——不能为了打工挣钱，而让儿子成为“留守儿童”。

几年过去了，外出打工挣钱的人家，又是砌砖瓦房子，又是给孩子带礼物；但是何江的家，仍是一个土坯房子。何江印象最深的，是睡前故事。无论白天农活儿干得多累、多苦，何江的父亲都会在睡前给两个儿子讲故事。

几乎所有的故事，都是一个主题——好好学习。“我爸高中都没毕业，也不知道哪里找来那么多的中国传统故事。每天讲都讲不完。”何江上大学后，有一次问起父亲，哪里找来那么多睡前故事，父亲告诉他，很多故事都是自己瞎编的，目的只是想告诉孩子，只有读书才能有好的出路。

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除了给儿子讲睡前故事，何江的父亲还严格要求两个孩子的学习。放学后，何家的两个儿子通常是被关在屋里“自习”，作业做完了，继续自习；而这个时候，大多数农村男孩都在田间地头玩耍。

“那时觉得爸爸很‘霸蛮’。但现在想想，这是农村环境下的最佳选择。”何江后来考上了中国科学技术大学，又去哈佛大学硕博连读，而他的弟弟则成了电子科技大学的硕士毕业生，今年下半年就去上海工作了。

文化水平不高的母亲懂得鼓励孩子

支撑两个男孩保持学习兴趣的，是那个“文化水平不如爸爸”的母亲。在何江眼中，母亲是个温和派。父亲批评孩子学习不好时，母亲总会在一阵狂风暴雨后笑呵呵地跑过来，送上“和风细雨”。

在母亲那里，两个儿子总能找到自信。何江现在知道，母亲当年的做法，就和如今他所见到的美国人的做法一样——以鼓励孩子的方式，给予孩子最大的自信。

湖南农村的妇女，在农闲时通常喜欢聚集在一起唠家常。但何江的母亲更喜欢陪着两个儿子一起学习。

因为不识字，她总是要求两个儿子把课本里的故事念给自己听，遇到听不懂的地方，她还会跟两个儿子讨论。

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何江记得，自己和弟弟都喜欢给母亲“上课”。母亲的循循善诱与何江如今正在接触的美国文化有着异曲同工之妙。“我刚来美国时很不习惯，不管提什么建议，导师都说可以试试看。”何江说，美国有一种“鼓励文化”，无论是诺贝尔奖得主，还是那些名字被印在教科书上的“牛人”，都会习惯性地给予学生鼓励。他们会在跟你一起啃汉堡、喝咖啡、泡酒吧时，时不时地鼓励你一番，让你觉得“前途不错”。

就连这次申请哈佛典礼演讲，何江也是在美国教授Diana Eck的鼓励下进行的。

哈佛毕业典礼的演讲，每年只有极少数的中国学生敢于申请。何江想要发言，目的是让美国的大学生听听来自中国的声音。但他此前并不敢报名，“教授告诉我，你只要觉得可以，就去试试，没什么好丢脸的”。

“农村英语”变为纯正美语没有捷径

申请哈佛大学的毕业典礼演讲，总共有3轮测试。第一轮，递交个人学习、科研材料和演讲初稿；第二轮，从10名入选者中挑选4人，每个人都要拿着自己的演讲稿念稿；第三轮，从4人中选出1人，所有人都被要求脱稿模拟演讲。

对一个英语是母语的学生来说，这都有极大的难度。更何况何江从小在湖南农村长大，初中才开始接触英语，操着一口“农村英语”上了县城的高中。那是他第一次从农村走进城里。在宁乡县城，他第一次感受到自己的英语水平

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与城里孩子的巨大差距。“第一学期很受打击，考试没问题，就是开口说英语很困难”。

不怕“使苦劲”的何江，买了一本英文版的《乱世佳人》回宿舍“啃”，遇到读到不懂的地方，就在书本旁边进行大段大段的标注。

“学英语，跟任何一门学科的学习一样，没有捷径。”何江自认为自己有些“一根筋”。这一点，或许遗传自父亲——从来不懂得走捷径，家里的田地里，除了水稻，再也没有种过其他品种的农作物。

到了哈佛大学，何江又像刚上高中那会儿，焦虑不已。中国学生大多喜欢跟中国学生聚集在一起，这样的话，很难找到机会练习英语。

何江硬着头皮，申请给哈佛的本科生当辅导员，“也不知道自己哪里来的勇气，反正就是想多讲讲英语”。从入学第二年开始，何江给哈佛的本科生做辅导员，这种方法让他的英语表达方式很快从“中式”转到了“美式”。到了读博士期间，何江就可以给哈佛本科学生上课了。

何江透露，这次哈佛毕业典礼演讲的申请，自己的“农村故事”为整个演讲主题增色不少。他将在演讲中介绍中医在中国农村发挥的作用，进而推及到自己在哈佛大学所专注的生物光学、物理专业研究，“以一个理科生的角度，来反思科技知识和技术在社会上不均衡的分布，以及如何将自己研究的科技技术，更广泛地传递到世界不同地方”。据悉，哈佛毕业典礼的历届演讲代表多为文科生，何江是为数不多的一名理科生代表。哈佛博士毕业后，何江将赴麻省理工学院进行博士后研究。

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第二篇：比尔盖茨哈佛毕业演讲

Bill Gates鈥� Commencement address at Harvard University,2007(extract)

Members of the Harvard Family: Here in the Yard is one of the great

collections of intellectual talent in the world.What for?

There is no question that the faculty, the alumni, the students, and the

benefactors of Harvard have used their power to improve the lives of people here and around the world.But can we do more? Can Harvard dedicate its intellect to improving the lives of people who will never even hear its name?

Let me make a request of the deans and the professors鈥攖he

intellectual leaders here at Harvard: As you hire new faculty, award tenure, review curriculum, and determine degree requirements, please ask

yourselves:

Should our best minds be dedicated to solving our biggest problems?

Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world鈥檚 worst

inequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty鈥he prevalence of world hunger鈥he scarcity of clean water鈥he girls kept out of school鈥he children who die from diseases we can cure?

Should the world鈥檚 most privileged people learn about the lives of the world鈥檚 least privileged?

These are not rhetorical questions鈥攜ou will answer with your policies.When you consider what those of us here in this Yard have been given鈥攊n talent, privilege, and opportunity鈥攖here is almost no limit to what the world has a right to expect from us.In line with the promise of this age, I want to exhort each of the graduates here to take on an issue鈥攁 complex problem, a deep inequity, and become a specialist on it.If you make it the focus of your career, that would be

phenomenal.But you don鈥檛 have to do that to make an impact.For a few hours every week, you can use the growing power of the Internet to get

informed, find others with the same interests, see the barriers, and find ways to cut through them.Don鈥檛 let complexity stop you.Be activists.Take on the big inequities.It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time.As you leave

Harvard, you have technology that members of my class never had.You have awareness of global inequity, which we did not have.And with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment you if you

abandon these people whose lives you could change with very little effort.You have more than we had;you must start sooner, and carry on longer.Knowing what you know, how could you not?

And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy.I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world鈥檚 deepest inequities鈥n how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.Good luck.(words: 497)

第三篇：JKRowling哈佛毕业演讲

J.K.Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.Text as delivered follows.Copyright of JK Rowling, June 2008

President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates.The first thing I would like to say is „thank you.‟ Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I have endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight.A win-win situation!Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world‟s largest Gryffindor reunion.Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility;or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation.The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock.Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can‟t remember a single word she said.This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, the law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.You see? If all you remember in years to come is the „gay wizard‟ joke, I‟ve come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock.Achievable goals: the first step to self improvement.Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today.I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that have expired between that day and this.I have come up with two answers.On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure.And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called „real life‟, I want to extol the crucial importance of imagination.These may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with me.Looking back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become.Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of me.I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels.However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension.I know that the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, now.So they hoped that I would take a vocational degree;I wanted to study English Literature.A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages.Hardly had my parents‟ car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics;they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day.Of all the subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view.There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction;the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.What is more, I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty.They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience.Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression;it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories, and far too little time at lectures, I had a knack for passing examinations, and that, for years, had been the measure of success in my life and that of my peers.I am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and well-educated;you have never known hardship or heartbreak.Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates, and I do not for a moment suppose that everyone here has enjoyed an existence of unruffled privilege and contentment.However, the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure.You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success.Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person‟s idea of success, so high have you already flown.Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale.An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless.The fears that my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun.That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution.I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged.I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea.And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable.It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way.I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected;I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone‟s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so.Though I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense.Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation.In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books.This revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day jobs.Though I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the African research department at Amnesty International‟s headquarters in London.There in my little office I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them.I saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and friends.I read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their injuries.I opened handwritten, eye-witness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and rapes.Many of my co-workers were ex-political prisoners, people who had been displaced from their homes, or fled into exile, because they had the temerity to speak against their governments.Visitors to our offices included those who had come to give information, or to try and find out what had happened to those they had left behind.I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had become mentally ill after all he had endured in his homeland.He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon him.He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child.I was given the job of escorting him back to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished me future happiness.And as long as I live I shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as I have never heard since.The door opened, and the researcher poked out her head and told me to run and make a hot drink for the young man sitting with her.She had just had to give him the news that in retaliation for his own outspokenness against his country‟s regime, his mother had been seized and executed.Every day of my working week in my early 20s I was reminded how incredibly fortunate I was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of everyone.Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans, to gain or maintain power.I began to have nightmares, literal nightmares, about some of the things I saw, heard, and read.And yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known before.Amnesty mobilises thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have.The power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners.Ordinary people, whose personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never meet.My small participation in that process was one of the most humbling and inspiring experiences of my life.Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced.They can think themselves into other people‟s places.Of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral.One might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or sympathise.And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all.They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages;they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally;they can refuse to know.I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do.Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors.I think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters.They are often more afraid.What is more, those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters.For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives.It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people‟s lives simply by existing.But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people‟s lives? Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities.Even your nationality sets you apart.The great majority of you belong to the world‟s only remaining superpower.The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders.That is your privilege, and your burden.If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice;if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless;if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change.We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.I am nearly finished.I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21.The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life.They are my children‟s godparents, the people to whom I‟ve been able to turn in times of trouble, people who have been kind enough not to sue me when I took their names for Death Eaters.At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.So today, I wish you nothing better than similar friendships.And tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives.Thank you very much.

第四篇：哈佛校长2016毕业演讲

哈佛校长2016毕业演讲：谁来讲述你的故事? 只有你自己

当你告诉别人你的故事，是为了发现真正的你，而不是那个别人认为你应该成为的那个你!听别人的建议，但是做你自己的决定!——哈佛校长 Drew Gilpin Faust 去从事你真正关心的事业吧，无论是物理还是神经科学，无论是金融还是电影制片。如果你想好了目的地，就直接往那里去吧。这就是我的“停车位理论”：不要因为觉得肯定没有停车位了，就把车停在距离目的地10个街区远的地方。直接去你想去的地方，如果车位已满，你总可以再绕回来。

哈佛校长2016毕业演讲：谁来讲述你的故事? 只有你自己 人们也许会说哈佛是天堂，充满了各种难以想象的机遇和好运——确实，我们每个人都有幸在她漫长而成功的历史中占有一席之地。但这也对我们提出了要求：我们有责任走出自己的舒适区，寻找属于我们的挑战，践行哈佛奋斗不息的精神。

在我准备今天演讲的时候，我想到了音乐剧《汉密尔顿》中最后那首歌里的问题： 谁来讲述你的故事? 我想这个问题奠定了你们过去四年大学生活的基调，也将对你们未来作为哈佛毕业生和校友的生活产生深远的影响，无论是作为公民或是领袖—— 谁，来讲述你的故事? 是你，你要来讲述你的故事!这就是今天我要对你们说的话：讲你自己的故事，一个充满了无限可能性和新秩序的崭新故事，这是每一代人的任务，也是现在摆在你面前的任务。你在哈佛所接受的文理博雅教育，将会用以下三种重要方式，帮助你去完成这项任务。听别人的建议，做你自己的决定

讲述你的故事意味着发现你自己是谁——而不是成为别人认为你的谁。你要参考别人的意见，但要做出自己的决定。讲述一个别人定义好的或别人希望听到的故事，那太容易了。哈佛的传奇人物之

一、可敬的彼得·戈麦斯教授曾说：“不要让任何人替你把话说完。”戈麦斯教授自己经常“自相矛盾”，令人难以捉摸，但永远忠于他自己：他是一位剑桥市的共和党人(注：在哈佛所在的剑桥市，共和党是少数派);他是一位浸礼会的牧师，但同时是个同性恋(注：基督教大多不支持同性恋);他是朝圣者协会的会长，同时又是一位黑人(注：朝圣者协会白人居多)。

他对自己的信仰坚定不移，他不为外人的期望牵挂束缚。他说：“我的不同寻常，让开启新的对话变为可能。”

开启与他人的对话，倾听他人的故事

开启新的对话，这是我的下一个重点。讲述我们自己的故事并不意味着只关注我们自己。讲故事是与他人对话，借此探寻更远大的目标、探索其他的世界、探究不同的思维方式——你所受的教育不是一个真空的大泡沫。

如果我们只讲述单一的故事，那将是危险的，就像诺大的场地只有一个逃生口，令所有人变得异常脆弱。单一的故事不一定是假的，但它是不完整的。所有的故事都很重要，不能把单一角度的故事变成唯一的故事。

过去四年，你们感受到了倾听他人故事的益处，也体验到了忽略他人故事所带来的危险。只有意识到，世界上充满了各种各样的故事，我们才能想象一个不一样的未来。21世纪的医疗是什么样?能源是什么样?移民是什么样?城市将如何设计?面对这些问题，你要问的不是“我会成为什么样的人”，而是 我能解决什么问题? “在不安和不确定中，不断修正你的故事” 这也引出了最后一个重点：不断修正。每个故事其实都只是一个草稿，我们连最古老的传说都会不断拿来重提——不管是汉密尔顿将军的故事、美国独立战争的史诗、亦或是哈佛自己的历史。

好的教育之所以好，是因为它让你坐立不安，它强迫你不断重新认识我们自己和我们周遭的世界，并不断去改变。

斯蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格将在毕业典礼上为我们演讲，他就曾经这样解释他创作的基石：“恐惧是我的动力。当我濒临走投无路的时候，那也是我遇见最好的想法的时候。”

大学，不正是这样一个让每一个人都接受挑战、让每一个人都产生不确定性的地方吗? 就这样，大学四年间，你都一直在学习重新讲述你的故事：寻找你自己的声音，将自己放入一个故事中——无论是对气候变化采取反抗行动，发现你对统计学的热衷，还是发起了一项有意义的运动，你亲眼目睹故事不断被重新讲述。不要妥协，直奔你的目标

这些年，我一直在告诉大家：追随你所爱!去从事你真正关心的事业吧，无论是物理还是神经科学，无论是金融还是电影制片。如果你想好了目的地，就直接往那里去吧。这就是我的“停车位理论”：不要因为觉得肯定没有停车位了，就把车停在距离目的地10个街区远的地方。直接去你想去的地方，如果车位已满，你总可以再绕回来。

所以在这里，我想祝贺你们，2016届的哈佛毕业生们。别忘了你们来自何处，不断改变你的故事，不断重写你的故事。我相信这项任务除了你们自己，谁也无法替你们完成!

第五篇：毕业演讲，哈佛的“最后一课”

毕业演讲，哈佛的“最后一课”

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在美国几乎每一所大学，毕业典礼都是一场“重头戏”.它们讲究排场，大多还蕴含着历史与传统。这在哈佛这所美国最古老的大学里更是展露无遗。

我们的毕业典礼总是定点在“三百年剧场”,它位于哈佛纪念堂与怀德纳图书馆之间那片无边绿茵中。通常，哈佛每年会有两个演讲：一是毕业纪念日演讲，一是毕业典礼演讲。前者先于后者，并且专属于哈佛学院应届毕业生，演讲嘉宾由大四学生委员会物色。这种演讲一般被称作“搞笑演讲”,一些着名谐星和幽默作家在演讲中所讲的那些很有味道的笑话，让我们笑破了肚皮，也令家长脸红。

而使全体毕业生如沐春风的毕业典礼演讲，则几乎永远都是“严肃”的，它由哈佛校友会敲定演讲人选。校方行政管理人员做不了主，谁来演讲还得看学生、校友的意愿，得体现出他们的兴趣与价值取向。有人为此会说毕业典礼演讲是观测哈佛社群的“精神指标”.你脑海中浮现的演讲可能是一场劝诫毕业生去做未来领袖、主宰世界的说教，可是，哈佛毕业典礼演讲者最不可能鼓励我们去憧憬、去实现做人目标。

我XX年毕业时，毕业纪念日演讲嘉宾是前总统比尔·克林顿，毕业典礼演讲嘉宾是比尔·盖茨。一个曾是世界上最有权力的人，另一个是世界上最富有的人。此二人如果不讲权和钱，会讲什么呢？

克林顿提到一个概念：“ubuntu”.意为“我因你而成”.即人在世界上不是孤立的，而是社会的一分子。他亦谈及我们不应将自身视为个体去追逐个人的成功，而应为全世界兄弟姐妹的福祉奋斗。非洲的艾滋病不是只属于“非洲”,印度尼西亚的海啸不是只属于“印度尼西亚”——我们思考时不应将其看作“他们”,而应视为“我们”.他敦促我们“花尽可能多的时间、爱心与精力去考虑那99.9%的人”.比尔·盖茨讲了自己与妻子梅琳达如何扪心自问“以我们所拥有的资源，怎样能最大化地造福最多的人”这一历程。他致力于推进创新型资本主义。在其中，市场力量可以更好地服务于贫困者，极具说服力的阐释：如何利用纷繁复杂、让企业与政府获益的现代科技与创新，在发展中国家拯救生命、改善生活。

他向我们发出挑战：以你们过硬的文凭、才智和天赋，能否应对重大的全球问题，为更多人的幸福贡献力量。他也为我们送上离别的祝愿：“我希望，你们将来评价自己的标准，不单单是以职业上取得的成就，也包括你们为改变这个世界所作出的努力……以及你们如何善待那些远隔千山万水，除了同为人类之外与你们毫无共同之处的人们。”

两个截然不同的人，两场如出一辙的演讲。

你可能会问：为什么？但我会问：为什么不是这样？我们，作为稳拿“好工作”的顶尖大学毕业生，有年轻的活力，有社会的认可——我们没什么输不起的。我们也许以为自己所向披靡、高人一等，从而面临迷失自己谦逊与对全人类同理心的危险。但也恰恰由于这种优势，我们随时能以最佳准备状态服务于最富挑战性的愿景，投身于最具挫折性的目标。这不是要我们牺牲健康、财富或快乐去为其他人做牛做马，事实上，我们应该并且必须为了全人类的共同利益有所行动，这不只是借由个体层面的同情与怜悯，还包括在梦想和卓越层面上进行革新与创造。我们不必放弃自己的生活，恰恰相反，我们可以通过为更多人幸福的奋战来改善自己的生活。

我认为，像名校的毕业生，身处一个独特而资源丰富的位置，就该为我们现在身处的世界、为未来一代又一代人赖以生存的世界全力以赴。我盼望全世界毕业生们，同样接受这一挑战，放低身段并为此努力。