第一篇：我要去哈佛 演讲稿
I’m going to Harvard
Hello, everyone!My name is 陈乐颜, I’m 9 years old.I like reading books.Today I’m very glad to stand here to give you a speech.Now I want to talk about my dream.I have a dream since I was very little: I want to go to Harvard.As you know, Harvard is an excellent university;it’s located in the United States.And it has educated a lot of famous people.I think I can meet a lot of good teachers and make new friends at Harvard.So I can learn much from them.I study hard every day, and I watch English programs and go to English corner every week, I want to improve my English.I believe that one day I can go to Harvard.That’s all.Thank you!
第二篇：《我要去春游》
大班社会活动《我要去春游》教案
大四班
廖琼梅
一、活动目标
1．能够运用符号、绘画、标志等方式制作春游计划,并用比较清楚连贯的语言介绍春游计划。2．掌握春游计划图包含的几大要素。
3．在制定春游计划的过程中，提高协商合作能力，体验运用非文字手段进行表达的乐趣。
二、活动准备
1.熟悉歌曲《去郊游》。
2.多媒体教学课件；幼儿绘画用纸和笔；双面胶 3.教师事先制作春游计划图范例一幅。
三、活动过程
（一）情景导入，展示春游图片
1．教师：今天老师带来了一些有趣的图片，我们一起来欣赏一下！2．教师播放春游轻松音乐并配上春游PPT,幼儿欣赏。3．谈话引出活动
A．教师：一年有春夏秋冬四个季节，图片中是那个季节呢？刚才他们去了哪里？带了什么东西？做了什么事情呀？
B．教师：刚才他们是春天去外面游玩的，我们给它起个名字，叫做“春游”。C．教师：你们想不想去春游呢？
（二）讨论：春游计划内容及要素
1．教师：大家都想去春游，那我们可以去桂平哪里春游呀？（西山、江边……）2．教师：刚才大家说的春游地点都很棒！我们老师也要去春游，老师选一个近点的地方，去桂平的银兔楼春游吧。
3．教师：去春游，需要准备一些什么东西呢，我们边说边记下来，做成一份春游计划图，那样才能玩得更开心！
4．A．教师：咦，上次我们班去外面大草坪玩可开心了，是不是呀？那这次我们去春游可以带些什么东西呢？（幼儿举手发言）
B．教师：这么多东西，太乱了，我们可以分类说。填报肚子最重要了，先说食物，可以带哪些好吃好喝的东西去呀？（食物：蛋糕、水果，饮料：水、果汁；教师让幼儿举手发言，幼儿说不出来了，教师再展示图片提示）
5．教师：小朋友们说的东西真多，这是我们老师准备的食物！
6．教师：我们还需要准备哪些有用的东西呢？（幼儿举手发言，若回答不出，教师提示：毛巾、雨伞、纸巾、杯子…….）
7．教师：这些就是我们老师需要用到的东西了。
5．A．教师：吃的用的东西都准备好了，真开心！但是玩的东西还没准备哟，我们可以准备什么东西玩什么有趣的游戏呢？（幼儿发言，如回答不出来，教师提示比如：拔河比赛需要准备拔河绳）
B．教师：你们说的真棒！我们看看还可以带些什么东西呀？ C．教师：东西真多，这是老师带的东西，还有玩的游戏！
D．教师：东西都准备好了，我们怎么去呢？需要什么交通工具呢？
6．教师：春游要准备这么多东西，真麻烦！这些东西都让一个人准备，可以吗？ 7．教师：那我们该怎么办？（请个别幼儿提出办法）原来，我们需要分组讨论，协商好谁带哪些东西！
（三）讲解春游计划图
1．教师：在你们的好主意下，我们老师做出了一份春游计划图出来了！图里有些什么内容，一起来看看吧！
2．教师讲解春游计划图，帮助幼儿理解。（这个图分成6个部分，表示有6位老师一起完成，X老师准备好吃好喝的，X老师准备有用的东西，X老师准备游戏需要玩的一些东西，X老师准备了交通工具，东西都放上车，可以出发咯！到了目的地，2位老师组织我们玩游戏，真开心！这些游戏跟我们带的东西都是相对应的，发现了没有呀！游玩中，需要注意什么呀？玩累了，我们收拾东西回家咯）
3．教师小结：这个春游计划图清楚的告诉了我们需要准备些什么东西，怎样去怎样回来，玩什么游戏，什么时候回来。
（四）制作春游计划图
1．教师：这是老师们设计的春游计划图，那你们的呢？ 7个小朋友一组协商讨论、以最快的速度完成它，然后去制作春游计划图好不好？
2．教师：老师从刚才小朋友说的地点中选出6个地点，谁要去东塔？那你们协商一下谁带食物，谁带用的，谁带玩的，谁安排交通工具，谁组织游戏，谁组织回家。（将幼儿分成6组，每组7人，幼儿协商合作，教师巡回指导）
（五）展示春游计划图
1．请2位代表向大家介绍本组的计划。
2．教师：你们设计的春游计划真有趣，现在我们就按照第X组的计划去春游吧！
2（教师播放歌曲《去郊游》，幼儿在欢快的音乐中结束活动。）
第三篇：毕业后,我要去
毕业后，我要去
从踏出校园开始，我们不再是“大学生”，而前路依然未知。不管是焦虑茫然，还是顺风得意，在真正获得一个明确而稳定的社会身份前，我们被统称为“社会新人”。近年来就业形势日益严峻，城市与大学生、人才供求间的紧张关系着实让大学毕业生承受着巨大的压力。
一、个人期望
毕业后，我打算一方面参加地方的教师招聘考试，一方面准备专升本的统一考试。对于这两次重要的考试，我会认真对待。如果我工作了，我不会给自己多么高的期望，我现在知道自己的能力有限，不会期望自己升职有多快工资多高，有些事情让我明白了自我定位是多么的重要，只要有一个明确的目的，就是只要能锻炼自己。
如果我升学了，我会戒浮戒躁，继续努力。其实学习和工作一样，都是一个不断锻炼的的过程，在学习中我们也会遇到许多的困难。但是我相信风雨是短暂的，彩虹正在为我们招手。总而言之，无论去工作还是学习，只要能锻炼自己，只要能学到有价值的东西，我觉得一切都是值得的，二、自我分析
在做事方面，我能够吃苦耐劳，做事耐心细致，懂得运用科学方法提高做事效率，但是做事有时会三分钟热度；在心态方面，我有一颗进取的心，乐观的心态，敢于拼搏，但是有时又避免不了自大的坏习惯；在学习方面，我的思维较为活跃，品学兼优，爱好广泛，虽然貌似全面发展，但又发展不全面；在交际方面，我沟通表达能力、组织协调能力一般，但我有极好的团队协作精神。
我至今为止还没有工作过，一直也狠不下心去做兼职，所以缺乏一些社会经验，因此我希望毕业后可以有机会先磨练一下自己，薪水倒不太在意，只希望有好的机会提升自己，适应社会。看了很多关于就业的讲座，我也知道社会是残酷的，像我这种没什么经验的少不了要碰壁，我也做好了很多心理准备坚持到底、永不气馁。
三、环境分析
2012年6月毕业的600多万大学生中，却至少300万还没有找到工作;而已经找到工作的大学生中至少160万的工作职位相当于中学生直接就业的职位，也就是至少460万大学生陷入了就业十分艰难的状态。根据前几年招生数据推算，今后几年，普通高校毕业生将持续大幅度的增长。由于今后几年社会对高校毕业生的需求增加幅度不会有大的变化，可以预计，大学生就业竞争将更加激烈。
四、存在的困难和诱惑
缺乏社会工作经验的我面对一个竞争高度激烈的社会，我的压力实在很大。将来极大可能会找不到自己喜欢的、适合自己的工作，工资也估计只够基本的生活开支，那些房子、车子更是遥不可及的说法。更别说我为社会做贡献了。
五、解决问题的思考
在就业指导课上，我了解到毕业生在选择职业的过程中，首先要针对自己的实际情况，做好自己的职业定位，规划自己的职业生涯。毕业生还要排除各种外界干扰，如果自己和用人单位彼此都很满意，就应该早做决断。还要根据自己的专业、技能、综合能力和社会用人单位的要求，确定自己的职业定位。就业过程是一个复杂的过程，往往会遇到这样或那样的困难，这就要求我们要努力培养良好的心理承受能力，勇敢地迎接选择未来生活的种种挑战。对此，我有自己的一些看法：、放低心态，先找份工作积累经验。首先，应当做好各方面的准备，即在学校期间要认真学习自己的专业课程，努力提高自身的业务素质和道德品质素质。其次，在求职招聘前要做好自身的定位，不要过高的估计自己的能力，也不要妄自菲薄，要实事求是的分析自己的兴趣爱好和能力水品。2、当积累到一定经验和资金后，可以考虑自己创业，好好运用市场营销学这门知识为自己的以后打算。总而言之，要以一颗良好的心态去面对、现实，面对社会，面对挫折要永不气馁，俗话说的好，坚持就是胜利；毕业后我们先要想到的是就业，而非事业，只有积累了经验和资金，还有在社会的为人处事之道后方能谈自己的事业。
第四篇：比尔盖茨哈佛演讲稿
idn’t care, but because we didn’t know what to do.if we had known how to help, we would have acted.此刻在这个院子里的所有人，生命中总有这样或那样的时刻，目睹人类的悲剧，感到万分伤心。但是我们什么也没做，并非我们无动于衷，而是因为我们不知道做什么和怎么做。如果我们知道如何做是有效的，那么我们就会采取行动。
the barrier to change is not too little caring;it is too much complexity.改变世界的阻碍，并非人类的冷漠，而是世界实在太复杂。
to turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact.but complexity blocks all three steps.为了将关心转变为行动，我们需要找到问题，发现解决办法的方法，评估后果。但是世界的复杂性使得所有这些步骤都难于做到。
even with the advent of the internet and 24-hour news, it is still a complex enterprise to get people to truly see the problems.when an airplane crashes, officials immediately call a press conference.they promise to investigate, determine the cause, and prevent similar crashes in the future.即使有了互联网和24小时直播的新闻台，让人们真正发现问题所在，仍然十分困难。当一架飞机坠毁了，官员们会立刻召开新闻发布会，他们承诺进行调查、找到原因、防止将来再次发生类似事故。
but if the officials were brutally honest, they would say: “of all the people in the world who died today from preventable causes, one half of one percent of them were on this plane.we’re determined to do everything possible to solve the problem that took the lives of the one half of one percent.”
但是如果那些官员敢说真话，他们就会说：“在今天这一天，全世界所有可以避免的死亡之中，只有0.5%的死者来自于这次空难。我们决心尽一切努力，调查这个0.5%的死亡原因。”
the bigger problem is not the plane crash, but the millions of preventable deaths.显然，更重要的问题不是这次空难，而是其他几百万可以预防的死亡事件。
we don’t read much about these deaths.the media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new.so it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore.but even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem.it’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help.and so we look away.我们并没有很多机会了解那些死亡事件。媒体总是报告新闻，几百万人将要死去并非新闻。如果没有人报道，那么这些事件就很容易被忽视。另一方面，即使 我们确实目睹了事件本身或者看到了相关报道，我们也很难持续关注这些事件。看着他人受苦是令人痛苦的，何况问题又如此复杂，我们根本不知道如何去帮助他 人。所以我们会将脸转过去。
if we can really see a problem, which is the first step, we come to the second step: cutting through the complexity to find a solution.就算我们真正发现了问题所在，也不过是迈出了第一步，接着还有第二步：那就是从复杂的事件中找到解决办法。
finding solutions is essential if we want to make the most of our caring.if we have clear and proven answers anytime an organization or individual asks “how can i help?,” then we can get action – and we can make sure that none of the caring in the world is wasted.but complexity makes it hard to mark a path of action for everyone who cares — and that makes it hard for their caring to matter.如果我们要让关心落到实处，我们就必须找到解决办法。如果我们有一个清晰的和可靠的答案，那么当任何组织和个人发出疑问“如何我能提供帮助”的时 候，我们就能采取行动。我们就能够保证不浪费一丁点全世界人类对他人的关心。但是，世界的复杂性使得很难找到对全世界每一个有爱心的人都有效的行动方法，因此人类对他人的关心往往很难产生实际效果。
cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have — whether it’s something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.从这个复杂的世界中找到解决办法，可以分为四个步骤：确定目标，找到最高效的方法，发现适用于这个方法的新技术，同时最聪明地利用现有的技术，不管它是复杂的药物，还是最简单的蚊帐。
the aids epidemic offers an example.the broad goal, of course, is to end the disease.the highest-leverage approach is prevention.the ideal technology would be a vaccine that gives lifetime immunity with a single dose.so governments, drug companies, and foundations fund vaccine research.but their work is likely to take more than a decade, so in the meantime, we have to work with what we have in hand – and the best prevention approach we have now is getting people to avoid risky behavior.艾滋病就是一个例子。总的目标，毫无疑问是消灭这种疾病。最高效的方法是预防。最理想的技术是发明一种疫苗，只要注射一次，就可以终生免疫。所以，政府、制药公司、基金会应该资助疫苗研究。但是，这样研究工作很可能十年之内都无法完成。因此，与此同时，我们必须使用现有的技术，目前最有效的预防方法 就是设法让人们避免那些危险的行为。
pursuing that goal starts the four-step cycle again.this is the pattern.the crucial thing is to never stop thinking and working – and never do what we did with malaria and tuberculosis in the 20th century – which is to surrender to complexity and quit.要实现这个新的目标，又可以采用新的四步循环。这是一种模式。关键的东西是永远不要停止思考和行动。我们千万不能再犯上个世纪在疟疾和肺结核上犯过的错误，那时我们因为它们太复杂，而放弃了采取行动。
the final step – after seeing the problem and finding an approach – is to measure the impact of your work and share your successes and failures so that others learn from your efforts.在发现问题和找到解决方法之后，就是最后一步——评估工作结果，将你的成功经验或者失败经验传播出去，这样其他人就可以从你的努力中有所收获。
you have to have the statistics, of course.you have to be able to show that a program is vaccinating millions more children.you have to be able to show a decline in the number of children dying from these diseases.this is essential not just to improve the program, but also to help draw more investment from business and government.当然，你必须有一些统计数字。你必须让他人知道，你的项目为几百万儿童新接种了疫苗。你也必须让他人知道，儿童死亡人数下降了多少。这些都是很关键的，不仅有利于改善项目效果，也有利于从商界和政府得到更多的帮助。
but if you want to inspire people to participate, you have to show more than numbers;you have to convey the human impact of the work – so people can feel what saving a life means to the families affected.但是，这些还不够，如果你想激励其他人参加你的项目，你就必须拿出更多的统计数字；你必须展示你的项目的人性因素，这样其他人就会感到拯救一个生命，对那些处在困境中的家庭到底意味着什么。
i remember going to davos some years back and sitting on a global health panel that was discussing ways to save millions of lives.millions!think of the thrill of saving just one person’s life – then multiply that by millions.… yet this was the most boring panel i’ve ever been on – ever.so boring even i couldn’t bear it.几年前，我去瑞士达沃斯旁听一个全球健康问题论坛，会议的内容有关于如何拯救几百万条生命。天哪，是几百万！想一想吧，拯救一个人的生命已经让人何等激动，现在你要把这种激动再乘上几百万倍……但是，不幸的是，这是我参加过的最最乏味的论坛，乏味到我无法强迫自己听下去。
what made that experience especially striking was that i had just come from an event where we were introducing version 13 of some piece of software, and we had people jumping and shouting with excitement.i love getting people excited about software – but why can’t we generate even more excitement for saving lives?
那次经历之所以让我难忘，是因为之前我们刚刚发布了一个软件的第13个版本，我们让观众激动得跳了起来，喊出了声。我喜欢人们因为软件而感到激动，那么我们为什么不能够让人们因为能够拯救生命而感到更加激动呢？
you can’t get people excited unless you can help them see and feel the impact.and how you do that – is a complex question.除非你能够让人们看到或者感受到行动的影响力，否则你无法让人们激动。如何做到这一点，并不是一件简单的事。
still, i’m optimistic.yes, inequity has been with us forever, but the new tools we have to cut through complexity have not been with us forever.they are new – they can help us make the most of our caring – and that’s why the future can be different from the past.同前面一样，在这个问题上，我依然是乐观的。不错，人类的不平等有史以来一直存在，但是那些能够化繁为简的新工具，却是最近才出现的。这些新工具可以帮助我们，将人类的同情心发挥最大的作用，这就是为什么将来同过去是不一样的。
the defining and ongoing innovations of this age – biotechnology, the computer, the internet – give us a chance we’ve never had before to end extreme poverty and end death from preventable disease.这个时代无时无刻不在涌现出新的革新——生物技术，计算机，互联网——它们给了我们一个从未有过的机会，去终结那些极端的贫穷和非恶性疾病的死亡。
sixty years ago, george marshall came to this commencement and announced a plan to assist the nations of post-war europe.he said: “i think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation.it is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation.”
六十年前，乔治•马歇尔也是在这个地方的毕业典礼上，宣布了一个计划，帮助那些欧洲国家的战后建设。他说：“我认为，困难的一点是这个问题太复杂，报纸和电台向公众源源不断地提供各种事实，使得大街上的普通人极端难于清晰地判断形势。事实上，经过层层传播，想要真正地把握形势，是根本不可能的。”
thirty years after marshall made his address, as my class graduated without me, technology was emerging that would make the world smaller, more open, more visible, less distant.马歇尔发表这个演讲之后的三十年，我那一届学生毕业，当然我不在其中。那时，新技术刚刚开始萌芽，它们将使得这个世界变得更小、更开放、更容易看到、距离更近。
the emergence of low-cost personal computers gave rise to a powerful network that has transformed opportunities for learning and communicating.低成本的个人电脑的出现，使得一个强大的互联网有机会诞生，它为学习和交流提供了巨大的机会。
the magical thing about this network is not just that it collapses distance and makes everyone your neighbor.it also dramatically increases the number of brilliant minds we can have working together on the same problem – and that scales up the rate of innovation to a staggering degree.网络的神奇之处，不仅仅是它缩短了物理距离，使得天涯若比邻。它还极大地增加了怀有共同想法的人们聚集在一起的机会，我们可以为了解决同一个问题，一起共同工作。这就大大加快了革新的进程，发展速度简直快得让人震惊。
at the same time, for every person in the world who has access to this technology, five people don’t.that means many creative minds are left out of this discussion---smart people with practical intelligence and relevant experience who don’t have the technology to hone their talents or contribute their ideas to the world.与此同时，世界上有条件上网的人，只是全部人口的六分之一。这意味着，还有许多具有创造性的人们，没有加入到我们的讨论中来。那些有着实际的操作经验和相关经历的聪明人，却没有技术来帮助他们，将他们的天赋或者想法与全世界分享。
we need as many people as possible to have access to this technology, because these advances are triggering a revolution in what human beings can do for one another.they are making it possible not just for national governments, but for universities, corporations, smaller organizations, and even individuals to see problems, see approaches, and measure the impact of their efforts to address the hunger, poverty, and desperation george marshall spoke of 60 years ago.我们需要尽可能地让更多的人有机会使用新技术，因为这些新技术正在引发一场革命，人类将因此可以互相帮助。新技术正在创造一种可能，不仅是政府，还 包括大学、公司、小机构、甚至个人，能够发现问题所在、能够找到解决办法、能够评估他们努力的效果，去改变那些马歇尔六十年前就说到过的问题——饥饿、贫 穷和绝望。
members of the harvard family: here in the yard is one of the great collections of intellectual talent in the world.
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President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates: I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.”
I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor.I'll be changing my job next year…and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees.For my part, I'm just happy that the Crimson has called me “Harvard's most successful dropout.” I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class…I did the best of everyone who failed.But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school.I'm a bad influence.That's why I was invited to speak at your graduation.If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me.Academic life was fascinating.I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn't even signed up for.And dorm life was terrific.I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House.There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew I didn't worry about getting up in the morning.That's how I came to be the leader of the anti-social group.We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.Radcliffe was a great place to live.There were more women up there, and most of the guys were science-math types.That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean.This is Where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn't guarantee success.One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call From Currier House to a company in Albuquerque that had begun making the world's first personal computers.I offered to sell them software.I worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on me.Instead they said: “We're not quite ready, come see us in a month,” which was a good thing, because we hadn't written the software yet.From that moment, I worked day and night on this little extra credit project that marked the end of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journey with Microsoft.What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence.It could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging.It was an amazing privilege…and though I left early, I was transformed by my years at Harvard, the friendships I made, and the ideas I worked on.But taking a serious look back…I do have one big regret.I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world--the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.I left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country.And I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries.It took me decades to find out.You graduates came to Harvard at a different time.You know more about the world's inequities than the classes that came before.In your years here, I hope you've had a chance to think about how--in this age of accelerating technology--we can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve them.Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause--and you wanted to spend that time and money Where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives.Where would you spend it?
For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have.During our discussions on this question, Melinda and I read an article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries From diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this country.Measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis B, yellow fever.One disease I had never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year ? none of them in the United States.We were shocked.We had just assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved, the world would make it a priority to discover and deliver the medicines to save them.But it did not.For under a dollar, there were interventions that could save lives that just weren't being delivered.If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not.We said to ourselves: “This can't be true.But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.””So we began our work in the same way anyone here would begin it.We asked: “How could the world let these children die?”
The answer is simple, and harsh.The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it.So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.But you and I have both.We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism ? if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who aresuffering From the worst inequities.We also can press governments around the world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of the people who pay the taxes.If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world.This task is open-ended.It can never be finished.But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.I am optimistic that we can do this, but I talk to skeptics who claim there is no hope.They say: “Inequity has been with us since the beginning, and will be with us till the end ? because people just…don't…care.” I completely disagree.I believe we have more caring than we know what to do with.All of us here in this Yard, at one time or another, have seen human tragedies that broke our hearts, and yet we did nothing--not because we didn't care, but because we didn't know what to do.If we had known how to help, we would have acted.The barrier to change is not too little caring;it is too much complexity.To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact.But complexity blocks all three steps.If we can really see a problem, which is the first step, we come to the second step: cutting through the complexity to find a solution.Finding solutions is essential if we want to make the most of our caring.If we have clear and proven answers anytime an organization or individual asks “How can I help?,” then we can get action--and we can make sure that none of the caring in the world is wasted.But complexity makes it hard to mark a path ofaction for everyone who cares--and that makes it hard for their caring to matter.Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have--whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.The AIDS epidemic offers an example.The broad goal, of course, is to end the disease.The highest-leverage approach is prevention.The ideal technology would be a vaccine that gives lifetime immunity with a single dose.So governments, drug companies, and foundations fund vaccine research.But their work is likely to take more than a decade, so in the meantime, we have to work with what we have in hand--and the best prevention approach we have now is getting people to avoid risky behavior.Pursuing that goal starts the four-step cycle again.This is the pattern.The crucial thing is to never stop thinking and working--and never do what we did with malaria and tuberculosis in the 20th century--which is to surrender to complexity and quit.The final step--after seeing the problem and finding an approach--is to measure the impact of your work and share your successes and failures so that others learn From your efforts.You have to have the statistics, of course.You have to be able to show that a program is vaccinating millions more children.You have to be able to show a decline in the number of children dying From these diseases.This is essential not just to improve the program, but also to help draw more investment From business and government.But if you want to inspire people to participate, you have to show more thannumbers;you have to convey the human impact of the work ? so people can feel what saving a life means to the families affected.The defining and ongoing innovations of this age--biotechnology, the computer, the Internet--give us a chance we've never had before to end extreme poverty and end death From preventable disease.The emergence of low-cost personal computers gave rise to a powerful network that has transformed
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and communicating.The magical thing about this network is not just that it collapses distance and makes everyone your neighbor.It also dramatically increases the number of brilliant minds we can have working together on the same problem--and that scales up the rate of innovation to a staggering degree.At the same time, for every person in the world who has access to this technology, five people don't.That means many creative minds are left out of this discussion--smart people with practical intelligence and relevant experience who don't have the technology to hone their talents or contribute their ideas to the world.We need as many people as possible to have access to this technology, because these advances are triggering a revolution in what human beings can do for one another.They are making it possible not just for national governments, but for universities, corporations, smaller organizations, and even individuals to see problems, see approaches, and measure the impact of their efforts to address the hunger, poverty, and desperation George Marshall spoke of 60 years ago.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--the 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's worst inequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty…the prevalence of world hunger…the scarcity of clean water…the girls kept out of school…the children who die From diseases we can cure? Should the world's most privileged people learn about the lives of the world's least privileged?
These are not rhetorical questions--you will answer with your policies.When you consider what those of us here in this Yard have been given--in talent, privilege, and opportunity--there 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--a 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't 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't 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's deepest inequities…on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.
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