优秀女校长事迹演讲--红烛的情怀

第一篇：优秀女校长事迹演讲--红烛的情怀

材料，为了节省运费，他们搭了一家工厂的顺路车，等人家的货卸完送他们回校卸货时，已是晚上十点钟了！

就这样，经过四年的时间，原先的垃圾场变成了柳树成荫的绿化带，原先的臭水塘变成了荷花盛开的清水池，原先坑坑洼洼的荒地变成了绿草萋萋的足球场……

人们常说“人和万事兴”“天时不如地利，地利不如人和”，徐校长深深懂得，教育管理要以人为本！她努力营造优良的人文环境，激发教师的工作热情。

高桥地处江北，要让青年教师尤其是外地教师安心留在高桥工作，谈何容易！徐校长觉得，只有留住了心才能真正留住人。于是，她尽一切可能给教师提供施展才华的机会，同时，努力改善教职工的生活条件，帮他们解决实际困难。青年教师朱彩云，是ＸＸ县(学生无忧网)从陕西引进的外语教师，她爱人原来在大港中学教英语，到了婚龄却苦于没有房子结婚，小两口非常着急，徐校长了解了这一情况后，毅然决定让出两间办公室，并亲自出面为他们装修，这对青年夫妇感动得不知说什么是好。第二年，男方主动申请从大港中学调到了高桥中学工作。

1998年，在徐校长的多方努力下，桥中的教师安居工程楼建成了，又一大批教师解决了住房问题。

人心齐，泰山移。面对学校和党组织的关心，面对高桥人民的期望，面对莘莘学子的求知热情，在徐校长奋斗精神的鼓舞下，高桥中学的教师开始奋发了！同样的教师，同样的生源，当年的中考，高桥中学就打了个漂亮的翻身仗，一举进入了ＸＸ县的上游学校行列。望着中考的成绩统计表，徐校长流下了幸福的热泪。

滔滔长江水，滚滚向东流。徐校长没有陶醉在一次的成功之中，她清醒地认识到，高桥这个江北的沙洲，经济发展落后的根源就在于人才的匮乏，要改变家乡贫穷落后的面貌，必须要加快教育的发展，不断提高学校的教育教学质量。

这四年多来，为了工作，徐校长没有睡过一个安稳觉；为了工作，她没时间顾及自己的家庭，常常是先生把午饭做好了送到学校；为了工作，她没时间过问自己唯一的女儿，当年，她送走一届届学生时，她自己的女儿却没能考上一所如愿的大学，如今，女儿即将毕业，作为母亲的她又无暇去为女儿落实工作。每当谈起这些，徐校长总是觉得十分内疚，她欠家庭，欠女儿太多太多了！

有人说，教师是蜡烛，燃烧自己，照亮别人。是啊，ＸＸＸ校长不正是一支烈烈燃烧的红烛吗？“把热心献给教师，把爱心献给学生，把忠心献给事业”——这就是一名优秀的女共产党员、一位优秀的女校长、一支默默燃烧的“红烛”的情怀！

第二篇：哈佛大学女校长毕业典礼演讲全文2011

哈佛大学女校长毕业典礼演讲全文（组图）作者：涂攀

2011年5月哈佛大学迎来了第360届毕业典礼。哈佛大学女校长福斯特（Drew Gilpin Faust，1947

年9月18日－，美国历史学家）在毕业典礼上发表了演讲。福斯特是哈佛大学历史上第一位女校长，也是自1672年以来第一位没有哈佛学习经历的哈佛校长。福斯特1947年出生于纽约，1964年毕业于马萨诸塞州的私立寄宿中学 Concord Academy，后就读于位于宾州费城郊外的一所女子文理学院 Bryn Mawr College；文理学院毕业后福斯特进入宾夕法利亚大学攻读历史学硕士，攻读历史硕士学位，1975年获得了宾大美洲文明专业的博士学位，同年起留校担任美洲文明专业的助教授。后由于出色的研究成果和教学，她获任历史学系教授。福斯特是一位研究美国南方战前历史和美国内战历史的专家，在美国内战时期反映南方阵营思想的意识形态和南方女性生活方面都卓有成就，并出版了5本相关书籍，其中最著名的一本《创造之母：美国内战南方蓄奴州妇女》在1997年获得美国历史学会美国题材非小说类最佳著作奖。

2001年，福斯特进入哈佛大学，并担任拉德克里夫高等研究院（Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study）的首任正式院长，该学院的前身是拉德克利夫学院。2007年就任哈佛大学校长。

2011年福斯特就任哈佛大学校长届满四年，四年也是本科生完成学业的时间跨度，所以Class of 2011对于福斯特来说，有着不一样的意义。在这篇演讲中谈到了她这四年的心路历程，同时对美国教育的未来发展提出了自己的观点，其中多次提到中国的教育发展。

Commencement Address Tercentenary Theatre, Cambridge, MA May 26, 2011

Distinguished guests.Harvard faculty, alumni, students, staff, friends.As we celebrate the Class of 2011 and welcome them to our alumni ranks, I feel a special sense of connection to those who just received their “first degrees,” to use the words with which I officially greeted them this morning.I began as president when they arrived as freshmen, and we have shared the past four years here together.Four world-changing years.From the global financial crisis, to a historic presidential election, to the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring — not to mention earthquakes, tsunamis and tornadoes.The choices and circumstances these new alumni face are likely to be quite different from the ones they expected when they moved into Harvard Yard in September 2007.And I hope and trust that they too are transformed — shaped by all they have learned and experienced as Harvard College undergraduates.Their departure marks a milestone for me as well.One that prompts me, as Harvard enters its 375th year, to reflect on what these four years have meant for universities, and what universities must do in this time of worldwide challenges when knowledge is becoming ever more vital to our economies, our societies and to us all.Education has never mattered more to individual lives.In the midst of the Great Recession, the unemployment rate for college graduates in the United States was less than half that for those with just a high school diploma.Those with bachelor degrees earn half again as much as high school graduates.Doctoral or professional degrees nearly double, on average, earnings again.And education of course brings far more than economic benefits.We believe that the graduates of institutions like Harvard are instilled with analytic and creative habits of mind, with a capacity for judgment and discernment that can guide them through a lifetime that promises an abundance of change.But education is not just about individuals.Education has never mattered more to human progress and the common good.Much of what we have undertaken at Harvard in these past four years reflects our fundamental sense of that responsibility: to educate individuals who will understand the difference between information and wisdom, who will pose the questions, and create the knowledge that can address the world’s problems, who can situate today’s realities in the context of the past even as we prepare for the future.Yet universities have been deeply affected, as events have reshaped the educational landscape in the United States and abroad.The cost of higher education has become the source of even greater anxiety for American families.At a time when college matters more than ever, it seems increasingly less affordable.Access to higher education is a national priority, and at Harvard we have significantly enhanced our financial aid policies to make sure that Harvard is attainable for talented students regardless of their financial circumstances.This is fundamental to sustaining Harvard’s excellence.More than 60% of undergraduates received financial aid from Harvard this year;their families paid an average of $11,500 for tuition and room and board.The composition of our student body has changed as a result, and we have reached out to students who previously would not have imagined they could attend.This past year, for example, nearly 20% of the freshman class came from families with incomes below $60,000.We want to attract and invest in the most talented students, those likely to take fullest advantage of their experience at Harvard College.（一名头顶阿拉伯-英语词典的阿拉伯学生）

Our graduate and professional schools recognize a similar imperative and seek to ensure that graduates are able to choose careers based on their aspirations rather than on the need to repay educational debt.The Kennedy School, for example, has made increasing financial aid its highest priority;Harvard Medical School’s enhanced financial aid policies now assist over 70% of its student body.Like American families, institutions of higher education face intensified financial challenges as well.At our distinguished public universities, pressures on state funding threaten fundamental purposes.The governor of Pennsylvania, for example, proposes cutting state appropriations for higher education by half.Leaders of the University of California system warned last week of a possible tuition increase of 32% in response to reduced state support.Some in Congress are threatening to reduce aid for needy students, and to constrain the federal funding that fuels scientific research at Harvard and at America’s other distinguished universities.By contrast, support for higher education and research is exploding in other parts of the globe.In China, for example, undergraduate student numbers have more than quadrupled in little over a decade;India has more than doubled its college attendance rate and plans to do so again by 2020.Higher education, these nations recognize, is a critical part of building their futures.As battles rage in Washington over national priorities and deficit reduction, we need to make that case for America as well.Universities are an essential part of the solution—providing economic opportunity and mobility, producing discoveries that build prosperity, create jobs and improve human lives.And American higher education—in its dedication to knowledge in breadth and depth, beyond instrumental or narrow technical focus — has proved a generator of imagination, wisdom and creativity, the capacities that serve as foundations for building our common future.When I met last year with university presidents in China, they wanted to talk not about science or technology, where we all know they have such strength, but instead about the liberal arts and how to introduce them in their country.They believed those principles of broad learning had yielded the most highly regarded educational system in the world.This year, Tsinghua University in Beijing introduced a new required course called “Moral Reasoning and Critical Thinking.” It is modeled on Professor Michael Sandel’s famous Harvard undergraduate class, “Justice,” and he lectured in that course last week.This is a time for us to convince Americans of what these Chinese educational leaders affirmed to me: that we in the United States have developed a model of higher education that is unsurpassed in its achievements and distinction, in the knowledge it has created and in the students it has produced.It must be both supported and adapted to help secure the future in which our children and their children will live.（这位老先生George Barner 是哈佛在世的最老的校友之一，1929届毕业生。按推算，老先生已经90岁以上高龄）

That future encompasses a second powerful force shaping higher education.When Thomas Friedman famously proclaimed that the world was “flat” in 2005, he drew attention to the ways in which ideas and economies no longer respect boundaries;knowledge, he emphasized, is global.Yet societies, cultures and beliefs vary in ways that affect us ever more deeply.If the world is flat, it is far from homogeneous.Universities must embrace the breadth of ideas and opportunities unfolding across the world, and at the same time advance understanding of the differences among distinctive cultures, histories and languages.（另一位年逾古稀的哈佛校友Donald Brown；1930届毕业生）

I am repeatedly struck when I meet with undergraduates at the intensity of their interest in language courses, which at Harvard now include nearly 80 languages.These undergraduates understand the kind of world they will live in, and they want to be prepared.One member of the class of 2011, who will be a Marshall scholar next year, told me about how she took up the study of Chinese at Harvard and when she traveled abroad recognized how speaking the language transformed her relationship to those she met.“When you learn a language,” she said, “you get goggles.My Chinese goggles.You have different kinds of conversations with people in their own language … we’re going to grow up in the world together in countries with such intertwined futures.We are,” she concluded, “an international generation.”

In these past four years, Harvard has reached into the world, and the world has reached into Harvard as never before.I have traveled as Harvard president on five continents.I have met with thousands of the more than 50,000 Harvard alumni who live outside the United States, and I have visited Harvard initiatives that address issues from AIDS in Botswana to preschool education in Chile to Renaissance studies in Italy to disaster response in China.Our new Harvard Center Shanghai joins 15 offices supporting Harvard faculty and student research and engagement abroad.We have over the past several years launched the university-wide China Fund, the South Asia Initiative, and an enhanced African Studies effort that recently received a coveted Title VI recognition as a National Resource Center.Undergraduate experiences abroad have more than doubled since 2003.Design School field studios reach from the favelas of Sao Paolo to the townships of Mumbai, and Harvard’s clinical and research opportunities in medicine and public health range from tuberculosis in Siberia to adolescent health in Fiji.Here in Cambridge, teaching incorporates an enhanced global perspective, from newly required international legal studies at the Law School to an international immersion experience beginning next year for all MBA students at the Business School, where 40% of case studies now have a significant international component.And we benefit from an increasingly international faculty and student body — 20% of our degree students overall.But it is not just knowledge that knows no boundaries.The world’s most critical challenges are most often borderless as well, and it is these pressing problems that attract the interest and talents of so many in our community.Universities are critical resources in addressing issues from economic growth to global health, to sustainable cities, to privacy and security, to therapeutics.To borrow a phrase from the Business School mission statement, Harvard faculty and students want to “make a difference in the world” by creating and disseminating critical knowledge.And we increasingly understand how to bring the elements of knowledge-creation together by crossing intellectual and disciplinary boundaries just as we cross international ones.I speak often of “one university,” for it is clear that we work most effectively when we unite Harvard’s unparalleled strengths across its schools and fields — and do so at every stage of the educational process, from College freshmen through our most accomplished senior faculty members.The new Harvard Global Health Institute is a case in point, engaging more than 250 faculty from across the university in addressing issues that range from post-earthquake response in Haiti and Chile to reducing cardiovascular disease in the developing world.We have established an undergraduate secondary field in Global Health, and over 1,000 College students are involved in courses, internships and related activities.Similarly, the Harvard Center for the Environment draws on graduate and undergraduate students and more than a hundred faculty, in law, engineering, history, earth sciences, medicine, health policy and business — to look comprehensively at problems like carbon capture and sequestration, or the implications of the Gulf oil spill for structures of environmental regulation.This brings us finally to innovation, a third powerful force in higher education — and in the wider world in which higher education plays such an important part.Students and faculty working together in new ways and across disciplines, are developing wondrous things — from inhalable chocolate to inhalable tuberculosis vaccine.Our undergraduates have invented a soccer ball that can generate enough power to light villages;Business School students are launching more and more start-ups;Medical School experiments have reversed the signs of aging — in mice at least.The Dean of our School of Education has been named one of the region’s foremost innovators for inventing a new degree, a doctorate in educational leadership — the Ed.L.D.— whose graduates, trained by faculty from the Business, Kennedy and Education schools, will be ready to lead change in America’s schools.New ideas and new ways of enabling those ideas to reach a wider world.That is the essence of what we are about.And we as an institution have some new ideas about how we do our own work as well.We have innovated after 350 years with governance, expanding and enhancing the Corporation.We are innovating(after almost as long)with the organization of our libraries — at the heart of how we learn and teach.We are in the second successful year of a new undergraduate curriculum.We created a new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.We are exploring new ways of teaching, with new technologies and new partners.We are integrating the arts into our teaching across fields, recognizing that the act of “making” — whether in the arts or, perhaps, engineering — is an essential part of creative learning.In the fall we will open a new Innovation Lab, to foster team-based invention that connects students across disciplines and with local entrepreneurs.Perhaps every generation believes that it lives in special times and perhaps every cohort of graduates is told just that at ceremonies like these.But both the depth of the challenges we face and the power of knowledge — and thus of universities--to address them is unprecedented.Harvard must embrace this responsibility, for it is accountable to you, its alumni, and to the wider world.Universities are among humanity’s greatest innovations and among humanity’s greatest innovators.Through universities we find a better future, where our graduates and their children and the greater global community may lead lives of peace, prosperity and purpose in the centuries to come.Thank you very much.互联网界的读者文摘

第三篇：哈佛大学女校长毕业典礼演讲全文

哈佛大学女校长毕业典礼演讲全文

Universities nurture the hopes of the world: in solving challenges that cross borders;in unlocking and harnessing new knowledge;in building cultural and political understanding;and in modeling environments that promote dialogue and debate...The ideal and breadth of liberal education that embraces the humanities and arts as well as the social and natural sciences is at the core of

Harvard’s philosophy.2011年5月哈佛大学迎来了第360届毕业典礼。哈佛大学女校长福斯特（Drew Gilpin Faust，1947年9月18日－，美国历史学家）在毕业典礼上发表了演讲。福斯特是哈佛大学历史上第一位女校长，也是自1672年以来第一位没有哈佛学习经历的哈佛校长。福斯特1947年出生于纽约，1964年毕业于马萨诸塞州的私立寄宿中学 Concord Academy，后就读于位于宾州费城郊外的一所女子文理学院 Bryn Mawr College；文理学院毕业后福斯特进入宾夕法利亚大学攻读历史学硕士，攻读历史硕士学位，1975年获得了宾大美洲文明专业的博士学位，同年起留校担任美洲文明专业的助教授。后由于出色的研究成果和教学，她获任历史学系教授。福斯特是一位研究美国南方战前历史和美国内战历史的专家，在美国内战时期反映南方阵营思想的意识形态和南方女性生活方面都卓有成就，并出版了5本相关书籍，其中最著名的一本《创造之母：美国内战南方蓄奴州妇女》在1997年获得美国历史学会美国题材非小说类最佳著

作奖。

2001年，福斯特进入哈佛大学，并担任拉德克里夫高等研究院（Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study）的首任正式院长，该学院的前身是拉德克利夫学院。2007年就任哈佛大学校长。

2011年福斯特就任哈佛大学校长届满四年，四年也是本科生完成学业的时间跨度，所以Class of 2011对于福斯特来说，有着不一样的意义。在这篇演讲中谈到了她这四年的心路历程，同时对美国教育的未来发展提出了自己的观点，其中多次提到中国的教育发展。Commencement Address

Tercentenary Theatre, Cambridge, MA May 26, 2011

Distinguished guests.Harvard faculty, alumni, students, staff, friends.As we celebrate the Class of 2011 and welcome them to our alumni ranks, I feel a special sense of connection to those who just received their “first degrees,” to use the words with which I officially greeted them this morning.I began as president when they arrived as freshmen, and we have shared the past four years here together.Four world-changing years.From the global financial crisis, to a historic presidential election, to the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring — not to mention earthquakes, tsunamis and tornadoes.The choices and circumstances these new alumni face are likely to be quite different from the ones they expected when they moved into Harvard Yard in September 2007.And I hope and trust that they too are transformed — shaped by all they have learned and experienced as Harvard College undergraduates.Their departure marks a milestone for me as well.One that prompts me, as Harvard enters its 375th year, to reflect on what these four years have meant for universities, and what universities must do in this time of worldwide challenges when knowledge is becoming ever more vital to our economies, our societies and to us all.Education has never mattered more to individual lives.In the midst of the Great Recession, the unemployment rate for college graduates in the United States was less than half that for those with just a high school diploma.Those with bachelor degrees earn half again as much as high school graduates.Doctoral or professional degrees nearly double, on average, earnings again.And education of course brings far more than economic benefits.We believe that the graduates of institutions like Harvard are instilled with analytic and creative habits of mind, with a capacity for judgment and discernment that can guide them through a lifetime that promises an abundance of change.But education is not just about individuals.Education has never mattered more to human progress and the common good.Much of what we have undertaken at Harvard in these past four years reflects our fundamental sense of that responsibility: to educate individuals who will understand the difference between information and wisdom, who will pose the questions, and create the knowledge that can address the world’s problems, who can situate today’s realities in the context of the past even as we prepare for the future.Yet universities have been deeply affected, as events have reshaped the educational landscape in the United States and abroad.The cost of higher education has become the source of even greater anxiety for American families.At a time when college matters more than ever, it seems increasingly less affordable.Access to higher education is a national priority, and at Harvard we have significantly enhanced our financial aid policies to make sure that Harvard is attainable for talented students regardless of their financial circumstances.This is fundamental to sustaining Harvard’s excellence.More than 60% of undergraduates received financial aid from Harvard this year;their families paid an average of $11,500 for tuition and room and board.The composition of our student body has changed as a result, and we have reached out to students who previously would not have imagined they could attend.This past year, for example, nearly 20% of the freshman class came from families with incomes below $60,000.We want to attract and invest in the most talented students, those likely to take fullest advantage of their experience at Harvard College.Our graduate and professional schools recognize a similar imperative and seek to ensure that graduates are able to choose careers based on their aspirations rather than on the need to repay educational debt.The Kennedy School, for example, has made increasing financial aid its highest priority;Harvard Medical School’s enhanced financial aid policies now assist over 70% of its student body.Like American families, institutions of higher education face intensified financial challenges as well.At our distinguished public universities, pressures on state funding threaten fundamental purposes.The governor of Pennsylvania, for example, proposes cutting state appropriations for higher education by half.Leaders of the University of California system warned last week of a possible tuition increase of 32% in response to reduced state support.Some in Congress are threatening to reduce aid for needy students, and to constrain the federal funding that fuels scientific research at Harvard and at America’s other distinguished universities.By contrast, support for higher education and research is exploding in other parts of the globe.In China, for example, undergraduate student numbers have more than quadrupled in little over a decade;India has more than doubled its college attendance rate and plans to do so again by 2020.Higher education, these nations recognize, is a critical part of building their futures.As battles rage in Washington over national priorities and deficit reduction, we need to make that case for America as well.Universities are an essential part of the solution—providing economic opportunity and mobility, producing discoveries that build prosperity, create jobs and improve human lives.And American higher education—in its dedication to knowledge in breadth and depth, beyond instrumental or narrow technical focus — has proved a generator of imagination, wisdom and creativity, the capacities that serve as foundations for building our common future.When I met last year with university presidents in China, they wanted to talk not about science or technology, where we all know they have such strength, but instead about the liberal arts and how to introduce them in their country.They believed those principles of broad learning had yielded the most highly regarded educational system in the world.This year, Tsinghua University in Beijing introduced a new required course called “Moral Reasoning and Critical Thinking.” It is modeled on Professor Michael Sandel’s famous Harvard undergraduate class, “Justice,” and he lectured in that course last week.This is a time for us to convince Americans of what these Chinese educational leaders affirmed to me: that we in the United States have developed a model of higher education that is unsurpassed in its achievements and distinction, in the knowledge it has created and in the students it has produced.It must be both supported and adapted to help secure the future in which our children and their children will live.That future encompasses a second powerful force shaping higher education.When Thomas Friedman famously proclaimed that the world was “flat” in 2005, he drew attention to the ways in which ideas and economies no longer respect boundaries;knowledge, he emphasized, is global.Yet societies, cultures and beliefs vary in ways that affect us ever more deeply.If the world is flat, it is far from homogeneous.Universities must embrace the breadth of ideas and opportunities unfolding across the world, and at the same time advance understanding of the differences among distinctive cultures, histories and languages.I am repeatedly struck when I meet with undergraduates at the intensity of their interest in language courses, which at Harvard now include nearly 80 languages.These undergraduates understand the kind of world they will live in, and they want to be prepared.One member of the class of 2011, who will be a Marshall scholar next year, told me about how she took up the study of Chinese at Harvard and when she traveled abroad recognized how speaking the language transformed her relationship to those she met.“When you learn a language,” she said, “you get goggles.My Chinese goggles.You have different kinds of conversations with people in their own language … we’re going to grow up in the world together in countries with such intertwined futures.We are,” she concluded, “an international generation.”

In these past four years, Harvard has reached into the world, and the world has reached into Harvard as never before.I have traveled as Harvard president on five continents.I have met with thousands of the more than 50,000 Harvard alumni who live outside the United States, and I have visited Harvard initiatives that address issues from AIDS in Botswana to preschool education in Chile to Renaissance studies in Italy to disaster response in China.Our new Harvard Center Shanghai joins 15 offices supporting Harvard faculty and student research and engagement abroad.We have over the past several years launched the university-wide China Fund, the South Asia Initiative, and an enhanced African Studies effort that recently received a coveted Title VI recognition as a National Resource Center.Undergraduate experiences abroad have more than doubled since 2003.Design School field studios reach from the favelas of Sao Paolo to the townships of Mumbai, and Harvard’s clinical and research opportunities in medicine and public health range from tuberculosis in Siberia to adolescent health in Fiji.Here in Cambridge, teaching incorporates an enhanced global perspective, from newly required international legal studies at the Law School to an international immersion experience beginning next year for all MBA students at the Business School, where 40% of case studies now have a significant international component.And we benefit from an increasingly international faculty and student body — 20% of our degree students overall.But it is not just knowledge that knows no boundaries.The world’s most critical challenges are most often borderless as well, and it is these pressing problems that attract the interest and talents of so many in our community.Universities are critical resources in addressing issues from economic growth to global health, to sustainable cities, to privacy and security, to therapeutics.To borrow a phrase from the Business School mission statement, Harvard faculty and students want to “make a difference in the world” by creating and disseminating critical knowledge.And we increasingly understand how to bring the elements of knowledge-creation together by crossing intellectual and disciplinary boundaries just as we cross international ones.I speak often of “one university,” for it is clear that we work most effectively when we unite Harvard’s unparalleled strengths across its schools and fields — and do so at every stage of the educational process, from College freshmen through our most accomplished senior faculty members.The new Harvard Global Health Institute is a case in point, engaging more than 250 faculty from across the university in addressing issues that range from post-earthquake response in Haiti and Chile to reducing cardiovascular disease in the developing world.We have established an undergraduate secondary field in Global Health, and over 1,000 College students are involved in courses, internships and related activities.Similarly, the Harvard Center for the Environment draws on graduate and undergraduate students and more than a hundred faculty, in law, engineering, history, earth sciences, medicine, health policy and business — to look comprehensively at problems like carbon capture and sequestration, or the implications of the Gulf oil spill for structures of environmental regulation.This brings us finally to innovation, a third powerful force in higher education — and in the wider world in which higher education plays such an important part.Students and faculty working together in new ways and across disciplines, are developing wondrous things — from inhalable chocolate to inhalable tuberculosis vaccine.Our undergraduates have invented a soccer ball that can generate enough power to light villages;Business School students are launching more and more start-ups;Medical School experiments have reversed the signs of aging — in mice at least.The Dean of our School of Education has been named one of the region’s foremost innovators for inventing a new degree, a doctorate in educational leadership — the Ed.L.D.— whose graduates, trained by faculty from the Business, Kennedy and Education schools, will be ready to lead change in America’s schools.New ideas and new ways of enabling those ideas to reach a wider world.That is the essence of what we are about.And we as an institution have some new ideas about how we do our own work as well.We have innovated after 350 years with governance, expanding and enhancing the Corporation.We are innovating(after almost as long)with the organization of our libraries — at the heart of how we learn and teach.We are in the second successful year of a new undergraduate curriculum.We created a new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.We are exploring new ways of teaching, with new technologies and new partners.We are integrating the arts into our teaching across fields, recognizing that the act of “making” — whether in the arts or, perhaps, engineering — is an essential part of creative learning.In the fall we will open a new Innovation Lab, to foster team-based invention that connects students across disciplines and with local entrepreneurs.Perhaps every generation believes that it lives in special times and perhaps every cohort of graduates is told just that at ceremonies like these.But both the depth of the challenges we face and the power of knowledge — and thus of universities--to address them is unprecedented.Harvard must embrace this responsibility, for it is accountable to you, its alumni, and to the wider world.Universities are among humanity’s greatest innovations and among humanity’s greatest innovators.Through universities we find a better future, where our graduates and their children and the greater global community may lead lives of peace, prosperity and purpose in the centuries to come.Thank you very much.-Drew Gilpin Faust

第四篇：哈佛女校长的演讲感言

先到你想去的地方，然后再到你应该去的地方

我把这个叫做职业选择中的停车位理论，几十年来我一直在和哈佛毕业的学生说这些。不要因为你觉得会没有停车位，就把车停在离目的地20个街区远的地方。先到你想去的地方，然后再到你应该去的地方。

你们选择了一条路，也就选择了一份挑战。你知道自己想要什么样的生活，只是不知道该怎样到达那儿。这是好事。

关注你的生活，思考怎样才能把它过好，怎样才能把事情做对：这些也许是教育给你最宝贵的东西。通识教育让你自觉地生活，让你在你所做的一切中寻找、定义价值。它也让你成为一个自我的分析家和批评家，让你从最高水平上掌握你生活的展示方式。从这个意义上讲，博雅教育让你自由。它们赋予你行动、发现价值和作出选择的能力。不要静止不动，要随时准备接受改变。牢记那些我们告诉你们的远大理想，就算你觉得它们永远不可能实现，也要记住：它们可以指引你们，让你们到达那个对自己和世界都有意义的彼岸。你们的未来在自己手中。

是的，大家有时候会这么做，但是中外教育是有差距的，需要我们在差异中，做出正确的抉择，真的有些痛苦，这需要很大的决心和为此付出的代价。

第五篇：一位女校长的开学演讲火了

一位女校长的开学演讲火了！她的话，竟点醒不少成年人！2016-2-23 8:47:21

湖北随州二中王桂兰校长在新年开学之际，给在校中学生们上了一场生动的课，句句经典。更令人注意的是，这次讲话虽然是针对在校学生，但是内容同样也适用于每一个成年人，振聋发聩，疯转朋友圈！看看她到底说了些啥？

不读书、不吃苦，你要青春干嘛

老师们、同学们：

大家新年好！

按照惯例，新学期的第一讲由我来给大家讲点什么，以前给大家讲的诸如《什么是你生命中的核桃》、《爱国请从改变自己做好自己开始》等等不知道大家是否还有印象，是否对大家有些启示和影响。

今天，我要给大家讲的主题是《不读书、不吃苦，你要青春干嘛》。

短暂的寒假结束了，新的学期开始了。回忆十来天的假期，你是否有值得回味的事情和经历呢？

我想，不同的人肯定有不同的收获和感受：

有的同学“收获”的是胡吃海睡，做的是“低头追剧”一族，并且生活的节奏全部被打乱——该睡的时候不睡，该起的时候不起，该吃的时候不吃；

而有的同学选择了认真完成寒假作业之余适当放松；

有的同学选择了放下包袱，在旅途中放松身心，增长见识；

也有的同学撇开喧嚣纷扰，选择了一本好书，与伟大的心灵对话，让自己的精神旅行；

有的同学会利用丰富的网络资源来强化自己的薄弱学科，实现弯道超越；

还有的同学会和自己的良师益友促膝谈心，获取前进的动力，感悟人生的真谛！

规划不同，过法不同，寒假对于我们的意义就不同。有的同学可能难以理解，假期有必要这么拼，这么苦，这么累吗？我的回答是大有必要。

这就是今天我要告诉大家的，怕吃苦，苦一辈子，不怕苦，苦一阵子。

2015年热播了一部电视剧，叫《芈月传》。芈月作为一个女人吃了多少的苦头，付出了多大的代价才登上权力之巅，奠定秦国一统六合的基业！而作为主演，孙俪成为“荧屏霸主”何尝不是如此呢？

孙俪面对媒体采访时这样说道：“除了《玉观音》后歇了三个月，十年来，我几乎再没有休息过一天，这比小时候练舞，比在部队里种地、赶猪、掏阴沟要累得多。”

她十年的付出，换来的是身价暴涨。拍摄《玉观音》时，片酬为5000元一集，《甄嬛传》时30万一集，《芈月传》时片酬涨到了85万……出道10年，身价暴涨了170倍。需要知道的是，这十年孙俪没休息过一天。

在完全可以拼“颜值”的时代，孙俪却在拼实力，拼吃苦精神。人生有两条道路可以选择：要么像孙俪那样吃苦十年，精彩五十年；要么安逸十年，吃苦五十年。

现在有些同学谈到读书，谈到吃苦，犹如谈虎色变，避之唯恐不及。

一帮不学无术的女孩聚在一起，号称所谓的姐妹，以为有了姐妹就有了全世界。她们在一起聊好吃的、聊穿的、聊化妆品、想的是网上购物、刷微信、刷微博，追韩剧；

而一帮无所事事的男孩聚在一起，号称所谓的哥们，以为有了哥们就有了天下。他们在一起逃课、抽烟、打扑克、玩游戏、看玄幻甚至约架……以为这就是疯狂，这就是该有的青春。

他们看不起那些不会化妆、不会打扮、一天到晚只知道读书的好学生，还骂那些好学生是书呆子，骂他们傻，只知道读书。殊不知，两三年后，好学生上一本，上211，上985，甚至上清华北大，而他们却要考虑去三本，去高职高专甚至考虑要不要南下打工。

有的人可能会说，读书有什么用，现在好多没读大学的也混得非常好。其实，你们忘记了一个词语，这个词语叫做比例。而那些占极小比例的没读书就成功的人，那是他们自身具备了成功的一些素质，而你们是否具备呢？

每个不想念书的学生，都会不约而同地找一个不读书就能成功的案例来作为他放纵的最后心理安慰。那么我很遗憾地告诉你们，这是改革开放三十多年后的中国，这里再也没有素质低下而钻了政策的空子就能一夜暴富的奇迹。这里优胜劣汰，这里适者生存。

叛逆和疯狂的青春当然可以，但几年的放纵，换来的可能就是一生的卑微和底层！

有一段父子之间经典的对话，告诉了我们努力读书和不读书的大不同。

儿子刚上学不久就问当农民的父亲，人为什么要读书。父亲说，一棵小树长1年的话，只能用来做篱笆，或当柴烧。10年的树可以做檩条。20年的树用处就大了，可以做粱，可以做柱子，可以做家具；一个小孩子如果不上学，他7岁就可以放羊，长大了能放一大群羊，但他除了放羊，基本干不了别的。

如果小学毕业，在农村他可以用一些新技术种地，在城市可以到建筑工地打工，做保安，也可以当个小商小贩，小学的知识够用了；如果初中毕业，他就可以学习一些机械的操作了；如果高中毕业，他就可以学习很多机械的修理了；如果大学毕业，他就可以设计高楼大厦、铁路桥梁了；如果他硕士博士毕业，他就可能发明创造出一些我们原来没有的东西。

“知道了吗？”

儿子说，知道了。

爸爸又问：放羊、种地、当保安，丢人不丢人？

儿子说，丢人。

爸爸说：儿子，不丢人。他们不偷不抢，干活赚钱，养活自己的孩子和父母，一点也不丢人。

不是说不上学，或上学少就没用。就像一年的小树一样，有用，但用处不如大树多。不读书或读书少也有用，但对社会的贡献少，他们赚的钱就少。读书多，花的钱也多，用的时间也多，但是贡献大，自己赚的钱也多，地位就高。

那次谈话给儿子留下了极深的印象，从此儿子在学习上不需要威逼更不需要利诱，就会做出最好的选择。

马云在《不吃苦，你要青春干嘛》这篇演讲中这样说到，“当你不去拼一份奖学金，不去过没试过的生活，整天挂着QQ，刷着微博，逛着淘宝，玩着网游，干着我80岁都能做的事，你要青春干嘛？”

恰同学少年的你们，在最能学习的时候你选择恋爱，在最能吃苦的时候你选择安逸，自恃年少，却韶华倾负，却不知道青春易逝，再无少年之时。

同学们，什么叫吃苦？

当你抱怨自己已经很辛苦的时候，请看看在西部的那些穷孩子，他们饭吃不饱，衣穿不暖，冻着脚丫，啃着窝窝头的情形；请想一想几十年如一日起早贪黑的我们的老师们；请你对比一下那些透支着体力却依旧食不果腹的打工者！

在有空调的、有热水喝的教室里学习能算吃苦？在有空调、能洗热水澡的寝室里休息算是吃苦？有爸妈当“太子伴读”，衣来伸手饭来张口的你能算吃苦？

风雨中这点痛算什么？你来这儿就是来刻苦学习的，就是来拼个好前程的，不是来荒废时日挥洒青春的。

去年考上清华的张甜柳寒假回母校来看望老师的时候说，没有高中三年拼命的我，今天我怎么能够和来自北上广深的优秀学生坐在同一间教室，聆听中国最优秀的教授讲课；怎么能够有资格和他们一道徜徉在水木清华园指点江山，激扬文字，想来这三年的苦真没有白吃，这三年的努力没有白费。

同学们，若想成为非常之人，必须学会吃非常之苦。要知道，青春最好的营养就是刻苦！

著名作家龙应台在给儿子安德烈的一封信中这样写到：我要求你读书用功，不是因为我要你跟别人比成就，而是因为，我希望你将来拥有更多选择的权利，选择有意义、有时间的工作，而不是被迫谋生。

是啊，如果你优秀，你便拥有了大把的选择机会，否则你只能被迫谋生。

李嘉诚也这样说：“读书虽然不能给我们带来更多的财富，但它可以给我们带来更多机会。”

同学们，有机会，才会成功，才会有未来啊！

可能有的同学会问，我现在努力，还来得及吗？我的回答是：“我说来不及，你就不学了吗？”我们应该把重心从问“来不来得及”转到用功学习上来。有时候你想的越多，越什么事都干不成。认准目标就静下心来干，总会有结果。

所以接下来的时间，无论是高

一、高二的，还是高三的同学们，不要问什么时间够不够，什么基础行不行。这些都是次要的，最主要的你要从现在开始吃苦，开始用功。

40岁的柳传志不问来不来得及，最终他缔造了联想集团；高考三次落榜的俞敏洪不问来不来得及，最终考上北大并打造了“教育航母”——新东方；经过两次创业失败的马云不问来不来得及，最终他书写了电商传奇，改变了世界。

亲爱的同学们，如果老天善待你，给了你优越的生活，请不要收敛了自己的斗志；如果老天对你百般设障，更请不要磨灭了对自己的信心和奋斗的勇气。

当你想要放弃了，一定要想想那些睡得比你晚、起得比你早、跑得比你卖力、天赋还比你高的牛人，他们早已在晨光中跑向那个你永远只能眺望的远方。

所以，请不要在最能吃苦的时候选择安逸，没有谁的青春是在红地毯上走过。既然梦想成为那个别人无法企及的自我，就应该选择一条属于自己的道路，付出别人无法企及的努力！

将来的你，一定会感谢现在拼命的自己！

最后希望大家新的一年奋力拼搏，不负春光，不负自己！同时也祝我们二中猴年吉祥、高考大捷！谢谢大家！

随州二中校长 王桂兰

2016.2.15

听听校长怎么说，或许更有启发！

以下是记者对王桂兰校长的采访内容：

湖北女校长成网红，她最担心良苦用心养壮的是别人家的娃！

文|长江日报记者耿尕卓玛

2月15日，新学期伊始，湖北随州二中校长王桂兰在该校做了开学国旗下的第一次讲话。长报君昨天一推，24小时，就突破了20万阅读，这位女校长的讲话火了！长报君辗转与这个在网络上少有新闻的女校长联系上了。

春节前就开始酝酿的讲话

长报君：您知道自己的讲话已经火了吗？

王桂兰：知道了，因为最近接到了太多校友和身在全国各地过去学生的电话。除此之外，学生家长、政府工作人员都有与我联系的，表示从中受益。还有知名企业老总来电话，说分发给员工学习，这是我远远没有预料到的。

长报君：这个讲话是怎么在网上流传的呢？

王桂兰：在我的多次促成下，我们随州二中有了自己的微信公众平台，我们会把我们定期举办的活动内容发布在上面，也包括我的一些讲话。这其中就包括我这次开学的国旗下讲话，我们微信号发了之后，首先是老师纷纷自发转到了自己的朋友圈，接着家长很大反响，跟着随州网也转载了，似乎就一步步在网上传开。（注：目前，在随州二中的官微中，讲稿篇也突破10万+）

长报君：为了这个讲话，您准备了多久？

王桂兰：从春节放假前就开始酝酿了，真正形成是在初七晚上，当天学生都下了晚自习，我才完成。可我不小心关错页面，把写的东西删的一点不剩。没办法，只能回家坐在床上重新回忆。

怕吃苦，苦一辈子，不怕苦，苦一阵子

长报君：您的讲话中很核心的一点是，怕吃苦，苦一辈子，不怕苦，苦一阵子。为什么要选择这个点，与学生分享？

王桂兰：在做校长之前，我有20多年的从教经历。这些年，我的学生陆续回来参加班级的20年聚会，也邀请我去。在他们身上我发现，当年不怎么努力的学生，生活水平还是要差些，那些爱学习的学生上了好大学，去了更高的平台，辛苦得值。

而现在我和多数老师的感觉是现在的学生普遍怕吃苦。比如，前段时间气温很低，很多学生喊苦。

长报君：在您自己的学习经历中，是不是也是吃苦过来的？

王桂兰：我是在小山村里成长的，经历了很多，从广水调来随州，一步步走到现在。

作为我自己，既是教育工作者，也是家长，我很清楚，人的一生奋斗都要吃苦，学生尤其高中的学生是最苦的，他们压力确实大，所有时间都要用到了学习。

不讲他们懂的语言怎么行？

长报君：您的那种字字珠玑的讲话风格是怎么形成的？

王桂兰：学校之前有些状况，我是2013年“临危受命”，来到随州二中的。这所学校老师年纪整体偏大，我来后，开始引进年轻教师。老教师们常常抱怨现在的学生怎么这样那样，我总告诉他们要俯下身子，研究学生，适应学生，了解学生。

我很清楚，学生不喜欢空洞大道理，所以我的讲话一定要基于他们听得进去，所以我要跟他们讲故事，用他们能接受的人、事，比如电视剧《芈月传》、马云、柳传志等等。

每次讲话，我都力争讲到学生心里去。去年9月的开学第一讲，正好赶上反法西斯战争胜利70周年阅兵式之后。怎么在这个时候真正激励学生的爱国之心，我做了《爱国请从改变自己做好自己开始》的演讲，我不希望学生茫然地参加这些爱国活动，在和平年代90后孩子怎么爱国？我引用了那句，你所站立的地方，就是你的中国，你有光明，中国便不再黑暗。

长报君：您在讲话开头有段对学生假期的描述，不只学生，连成人都深以为然，那确实是多数人比较放纵的假期生活。

王桂兰：这段假期的描述其实都来自于我的生活。初六左右，我和一个朋友去汗蒸，期间我问她春节过得怎么样，她说像打乱仗一样，每天该吃饭的时候不吃，吃了一肚子乱七八糟的东西。她的话点醒了我，不只学生，其实大家的假期都是很散漫放纵的。

长报君：从讲话来看，您的阅读涉猎范围很广？

王桂兰：有些时间，我都会读些东西。我为自己也定下一个计划，不仅要教育学生，还要引导家长。现在，很多学生不上进，是因为家庭责任没担起来，让人很痛心。

看到什么好的东西，我都会记录下来。我的电脑里有三个文件夹，不同的文件夹里是不同的内容推荐给家长、学生和老师。需要时，我就会从中调用。

打鸡血是有必要的！

长报君：您在讲话中，提到学生称姐妹、哥们的现象。

王桂兰：现在，包括周边一些学校，学生爱化妆，还公开地谈恋爱。你说他们懂感情似乎啥都不懂，说不懂又好像啥都知道，过去学生谈恋爱还躲藏，现在很多学生谈恋爱不羞愧，很让人头疼。

长报君：我注意到，自从您2013年到了随州二中，学校开始有了成人礼，2014年的时候，1300名学生鞠躬谢父母。

王桂兰：是的，这是我提倡并一手办起来的。高三，到了学生最累最苦的时候，人在疲惫的时候是很需要激励的。我想用这种方式，励志一下，让他们明确自己肩负的责任。活动会铺红地毯，挂幕布，有大蛋糕，会让孩子写下20年后自己可能的样子。我认为，这种仪式感很必要，也是在为他们打造记忆故事。

长报君：有观点质疑，在这种鸡血刺激中成长的孩子，以吃苦一阵子享福一辈子的观念，将来很难成为社会的栋梁，您怎么看？

王桂兰：教育孩子并不是靠一次讲话就行的，也许过段时间，一阵风过去，这些孩子就又忘了这个讲话。但能影响一个月是一个月，我觉得，孩子是要不断警醒的。

比如，小时候学走路，走偏了，家长会把小孩步子拧回来，再走偏，就再拧正。这是一个一系列的过程，不是打了鸡血就算了，也不是吃苦这么笼统的教育理念。

我现在最怕的是这次的讲话养壮了别人的娃，没滋养自己的娃。我知道包括襄阳五中的一些周边学校，都印发了我的讲话给学生，人手一份。下周我们学校也会要学生读这个讲话，让他们来讲体会，下下周再请家长来讨论。