毕业季如约而至，承载了太多人的梦想与情感，小伙伴们对老师、同学、学校都依依不舍。

毕业典礼作为给学生上的“最后一课”，校长的话不仅代表了这所大学的气质和独特的精神品质，更代表其教育观、思想层次，指导学生走向社会。

海外高校的毕业典礼上，校长们给了学生们什么启迪？我们一起来看看吧！

耶鲁大学校长

Kingman Brewster, Jr

Make sure your circles are truly large.

确保你画的圈足够大

"Today, perhaps more than ever, it is easy to know what you're against. Far more difficult to say what you're for."

“今天，可能比以往任何时代，都更容易知道你反对什么，也比任何时代都更难以说出你追求什么。”

"Draw many circles; make them large in all kinds of ways. You will find life richer, fuller, and more meaningful, and you will bring to the world the empathy and understanding we so desperately need."

“尽可能画许多圈，并且让它们足够大。你会发现生活更加丰富、充实、有意义。你将为世界带来我们亟需的同情和理解。”

"The work of inclusion is difficult, but the rewards are great."

“要实现兼容并包很难，但未来的回报巨大。”

密歇根大学校长

Mark Schlissel

Our society is yours to change.

我们的社会将由你们改变

"We live in an era of accelerating change, where often as a society and as individuals we seem to be struggling to keep up...it's about the changes you will contribute to in society."

“我们生活在一个加速变革的时代，在这里，作为社会中的独立个体，我们都在努力争取跟上时代的步伐...不仅仅意味着你们个人的改变，而是你们将为社会做出贡献的改变。”

"Purposefully contributing to change, requires courage, trust and the willingness to listen and consider many voices. It works best when trust is built by finding common ground.

“有目的性的促成革新，需要勇气、信任，并乐于倾听各界的声音。当信任能通过找寻共同点而建立的时候，才能发挥最好的作用。”

"Seek out new evidence, develop new methods, and consider many points of view. And choose the path that will make ours a better world."

“寻找新的证据，研究新的方法，并考虑许多观点。选择一条能让世界变得更加美好的道路。”

"Go discover, Go achieve, Go serve, and Go Blue!"

“去发现，去实现，去服务，去创造吧！”

哥伦比亚大学校长

Lee Bollinger

70 to learn, 70 to do, and 70 to teach the next generation.

70年学习，70年实践，70年教育下一代

"Over time, our great research universities drive human progress, they lay the foundation of life as it can be, more than capitalism or government policy. In life, personal and social, ideas are everything, or almost everything, and universities are all about ideas."

“在历史上，相较于资本或政策，我们伟大的研究型大学更能驱动人类的进步，为人类生活打下根基。无论是在个人还是社交生活中，思想都是最重要的——或者说思想才是全部，而大学本身即关乎思想。”

"The best side of human nature includes the desire to learn and to live by the truth, and to acquire and create knowledge. And, while our natural negative instincts...a life worth living will only follow from a determined effort to engage with ideas at the most profound levels. "

“人性的最优面包括了对学习，对依靠真理而生活，对获取和创造知识的渴望...只有坚定不移地在最深刻的层面上交流思想，有价值的生活才能实现。”

"A good life always has the feeling that we are learning more and more as we go and that we could do even better if we just learned a bit more."

“美好的生活总是让我们学到越来越多的东西，多学一点，我们或许就可以做得更好。”