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宾夕法尼亚大学校长古德曼在迎新大会上的演讲（2011年9月6日）
Make the Most of the Stars
“星星”照耀前行路
校长简介 ：
2011年9月6日，在宾夕法尼亚大学为新生举行了隆重的欢迎仪式，该校女校长古德曼在欢迎仪式上发表了演讲，为新生在未来4年的学习和生活提出了建议。
Thank you Dean Furda.This is a very good symbol.My warmest welcome to the gifted women and men of the great Cla of 2015!I put it down, so I don’t use it as a weapon.Equally warm greetings to transfers, as I always say you transfer from other colleges and universities, smart move!
Of course, I’m not surprised that all of you, every single one of you here this evening, made the smart move of coming to Penn.You’re, objectively speaking, the most talented and most diverse group of students we’ve ever enrolled...and that’s certainly saying something.Now I’ll soon see if you are also the most spirited cla we’ve ever enrolled!Remember where we are!
And up there in some corner there is somebody who is sitting in my seat in the Palestra.This is a great occasion for me to welcome you officially to your career at Penn.So let’s see how spirited you are.Students of the College of Arts and Sciences? Okay, this is a leon there: be careful what you are wishing for.Nursing students? Engineering students? Whartonites? At this Convocation all of you together officially join this great University community.Today, you begin your journeys at Penn.As on any journey, you’re going to be in need of a way to navigate.And your GPS systems aren’t going to help.So, I want to share with you some advice on navigating your Penn journey--especially if you want not only to graduate and not only to get a job, which you will, but also to live a great life that reflects your tremendous potential.So my advice to you is to make the most of the stars in front of you...the stars around you...and the stars within you.Now, I realize there’s some danger in advising you as I am about to do.Questioning and advising were two of the main occupations of somebody I admire greatly but never knew--Socrates.You may think I’m old enough to know him, but not quite.I’m a Socratic teacher at heart, and I remember an answer that a student once gave to an eay question on Socrates, who as you know spent considerable time questioning the youth of Athens.The student wrote as follows “Socrates was a famous teacher who went about trying to give people advice.They poisoned him.” For giving you advice on this occasion, I have the trust that you’ll forgive me… or at least you won’t poison me.Let’s begin with the stars in front of you.They are the tradition—and the spirit— of Penn which all of you today inherit as official members of this community.First and foremost, these Penn stars are our spirit of inquiry and inquisitivene—of
creativity and innovation.All made sweeter by Penn’s audacious and irrepreible community spirit.Holding Convocation here in the Palestra, filled with years of Penn’s winning spirit, makes for a fitting start.We didn’t order up the rain, but we are happy that it brought us all here to the Palestra.I recently told Philly Magazine that my favorite spot in our city is the Palestra on game night.Now I may have to change that answer to the Palestra at the Cla of 2015 Convocation!So let’s hear it for the Cla of 2015.The quest for meaningful knowledge and understanding lies at the heart of our University.But this quest means more than learning the right answers--or even asking the right questions.It means doing the work that allows you to come to know yourselves...what gives your life the most profound meaning, and joyful satisfaction.As you follow these stars in front of you, also here to guide you are the stars that surround you--your fellow students and the faculty of Penn.You make your journey alongside an amazing group of clamates.The SAT scores are grades, as Dean Furda said ,they are behind you.Ahead of you and all around you, you are surrounded by clamates who will challenge you and challenge each other to broaden your horizons...to think in new ways...and to see controversial iues from different perspectives.Don’t hesitate to argue with one another.And I also tell you food trucks offer the best deals.Some practical advice as well as some profound insights.So those are the stars around you.They of course include Penn’s fabulous faculty.Our faculty will test you.They will inspire you.They will allow you to undertake unique interdisciplinary work.And they will urge you to achieve more than you ever thought poible.I am proud to be a member of Penn’s faculty and I am also very proud that we ask far more of you than one of our sister colleges did in the 19th Century.It required all its applicants to be able to do three things:“Recite the multiplication tables, lay a fire--and mash potatoes’’ We of course expect more of you than mashed potatoes , but seriously speaking, and above all, Penn faculty will stretch your creative imaginations.The third stars to guide you are the major stars of Penn’s universe, those within you: Your dreams and your paions.Your talents and your capabilities.Your ambitions and, yes, your anxieties.The stars of our own destiny, as Schiller wrote,“are found within us.”Advance confidently in the direction of your dreams, as Thoreau wrote ,and “You will meet with a succe unexpected in common hours.”
I trust that you will use the stars within you not only for your own development---but also for the development of our Penn community, our West Philadelphia community, and our global community.In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin described his own life’s journey from Boston to Philadelphia, to allow the reader as he put it to “compare such unlikely beginnings ,with the figure I have since made...” Franklin arrived in Philadelphia with little more than three loaves of bread under his arms.Ours founder, the sage of the American Revolution---patriot, printer, and philosopher… statesman and scientist… inventor and innovator — Franklin would go on to live one of the most amazing lives
of any American.Today, you begin your own journey with destinations that — like those of the young Franklin---are yet unknown.My advice to you is deceptively simple: Guide yourselves by the stars in front of you… the stars around you… and above all, the stars inside you.And as your take your first — perhaps anxious — steps on your journeys, please remember that we’re here not just to challenge you, but most significantly to support you.One day, each of you will look back on your unique journeys here.You will find it to be totally different from Franklin’ s in where it takes you — but similarly amazing in what you have learned, who you have befriended, what you have created and contributed...and above all in the person you will have become.If you had asked me what I thought my own destination would be when I was beginning my college journey, I would have said teaching math.I wanted to be a math teacher.I loved math and I still love math.That’s what I set out to do in college.But here I am with you at Penn never having taught math.Truth be told, I’m even more excited about the journey you’re about to begin than I was about my own college journey, because on the top of how much you’ll create, how much you contribute, and how much you grow as a person, it’s just so much fun to be at Penn!
So to you, the members of great Cla of 2015, I say, welcome to the Penn community.Follow the stars, and really enjoy the journey and go Quakers!
Thank you!
谢谢你，福达主任，这是一个非常好的象征物。我向了不起的2015届男女才俊表示最热烈的欢迎！我把这个象征物放起来，这样我就不会把它当成武器了。我对转校生也同样表示欢迎，正如我常常说的那样，你们从别的院校转过来是明智之举！
当然，今晚在这里的所有人都选择来到了宾大，对于你们的这个明智之举我并不感到奇怪，客观的说，你们是我们所招过的学生中最有才华也是最多样化的一批，这当然说明了一些问题。不久，我将会看到你们是否也是我们招过的最斗志昂扬的一届学生！不要忘了我们是在哪里！
就在本体育馆上方某个角落里某个人正坐在我的座位上。今天对我来说是个正式欢迎你们开始宾大生活的大好时机。所以让我们看看你们有多么地斗志昂扬。文理学院的学生们在哪里？好了，这就是教训：要小心说出你的愿望。护理专业的学生们在哪里？工程专业的学生在哪里?矿业专业的学生们在哪里？在本次迎新大会上，你们所有人就正式地加入了这所出色的大学。今天，你们开始了在宾大的人生旅程。和开启一段任何旅程一样，你们也需要导航。你们的GPS系统在这里排不上用场。
因此，我想和你们分享几个建议，来指引你们的宾大之旅——特别是如果你们想到的不仅仅是毕业，也不仅仅是找到一份工作（你们当然会的），而是过一种能够发挥你们巨大潜能的辉煌人生的话。那么，我给你们的建议就是充分利用你们眼前的这些“星星”，你们周围的那些“星星”和你们内心的那些星星。
我知道给你们提建议要冒险，而我正打算这么做，质疑和劝戒是我及其崇拜但却从未谋面的一个人的最重要的两个职业——他就是苏格拉底。你们也许认为
我足够老，应该认识他，但还没老到那份上。我本质上是个具有苏格拉底风格的老师，我记得一个学生曾在回答有关苏格拉底的一个问题时给出了一个答案，你们知道苏格拉底花了大量时间质疑雅典的青年人。那位学生这样写道：“苏格拉底是一个著名的老师，他到处游走试图给人们提出建议，结果他们毒死了他”在这种场合给你们提建议，我有信心你们将会谅解我，至少你们不会给我下毒。
让我们从你们眼前的“星星”说起。他们是宾大传统和精神的化身，而你们今天作为这个集体的正式成员来继承宾大传统和宾大精神。最重要的是，这些宾大之星代表的是我们探求知识和锐意创新的精神。宾大无畏的和势不可挡的集体精神让这一切变得更加温馨。在这座满载着多年获胜精神的宾大体育馆里召开迎新大会预示着一个好的开端。我们没有让老天下这场雨，但我们很高兴是这场雨把我们带到了体育馆。
最近我告诉《费城杂志》说这个城市我最喜欢的地方就是比赛之夜的体育馆。现在我也许不得不把答案改成“2015届迎新大会的体育馆”了！因此，让我们为2015届新生鼓掌叫好吧。
对有意义知识和理解力的探求是我们大学的本义所在，但这种探求不仅仅意味着知道正确的答案——甚至也不意味着提出正确的问题。
它意味着去做那些让你认识自己、使你的人生具有深刻意义、使你在快乐中得到满足感的功课。
在你们追随着眼前这些“星星”的时候，那些在你们周围的“星星”也在这里指引着你们，他们是你们宾大的同学和老师。你们在旅程中和一群了不起的同学结伴而行。SAT分数只是学习成绩。正如福达主任说的那样，他们已成为过去。在你们前面和你们身边的是你们的同学，他们将向你们发起挑战，他们将相互挑战，因此你们必须拓宽视野，必须有新思维，必须站在不同角度看待有争议的问题。不要害怕相互辩论。同时，我还告诉你们食品卡车提供最美味的饭菜，所以，我给你们的既有实惠的建议，又有一些意味深长的见解。
那些就是你们身边的“星星”。他们当然也包括宾大出色的教师团。我们的教师团将会检验你们。他们将会激励你们。他们将会让你们承担独一无二的跨学科工作。他们将会敦促你们取得你们想不到的成就。
身为宾大教师团中的一员，我感到骄傲，同样让我深感骄傲的是我们对你们的要求远远超过了我们的一所姊妹院校在19世纪对学生们的要求。他要求所有的入学申请者能够做三件事：“背诵乘法口诀，生火以及切土豆丝。”我们对你们的期待当然不只是切土豆丝，不过严格地说，最重要的是宾大教师团将会扩展你们的创新想象力。
指导你们的第三类“星星”是最重要的宾大之星，他们来自于你们的内心：你们的梦想和激情，你们的才华和能力，你们的雄心，当然还有你们的焦虑。正如席勒写的那样，我们的命运之星“就在我们心里”。沿着自己梦想的方向奋勇前进，正如梭罗写的那样，“你将会在平常时间里和成功不期而遇。”
我相信你们将利用你们内心的那些“星星”，不仅仅为了你们自身的发展，还为了我们宾大的发展，为了我们西部费城的发展以及我们全球的发展。
本杰明富兰克林在自传中描述了他从波士顿到费城的那一段生活旅程，按他自己的说法他写那段的目的就是让读者“把这样一个毫无希望的开始和我从此所取得的成就做一个比较....”富兰克林到达费城的时候胳膊底下夹着3块面包，仅此而已。作为我们的开国元勋、美国革命的先哲、爱国者、印刷商、哲学家、政治家、科学家、发明家和革新家的富兰克林此后的人生是任何一个美国人所能过的最令人称奇的人生之一。
今天你们开始了自己的人生旅程，但正如当年年轻的富兰克林一样，你们的目标并不明确。我对你们的忠告简单的让人难以置信：“星星”、你们周围的“星星”、最重要的是你们内心的“星星“引导你们。
在你们迈出旅程的第一步——也许是焦虑不安的第一步——时，请记住我们在这里不仅仅是为了激励你们，更重要的是我们会给你们以支持。
将来有一天，你们每个人将会回顾你们在这里度过的独特的人生旅程。你们将会发现你们旅程的终点完全不同于富兰克林的旅程终点，但是在你们学到的、所帮助过的、所创造的、所贡献的，最重要的是你们所要成为的诸多方面，你们和富兰克林有着惊人的相似之处。
假如你们问我当初在开启大学生活旅程的时候我给自己定下的目标是什么，我的答案会是教数学。我曾想成为一名数学老师，我过去喜爱数学，现在依然喜爱数学。那就是我上大学时立志要做的事。但现在我在宾大和你们在一起，从来没有教过数学。说实话，你们即将开始的旅程带给我的兴奋程度甚至超过了当年我自己即将开始的大学旅程带给我的兴奋程度，因为除了你们在多大程度上有所创造、有所贡献、有所成长之外，单看到你们来到宾大就是一件非常有趣的事。
因此，我对你们这些出色的2015届成员们说：欢迎来到宾大。追随那些“星星”，真正享受你们的旅程。加油，宾大！
谢谢你们！
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