【正文】 ve ever gotten to a college I want to tell you three stories from my 39。s up to you to decide, really, where will you now use those gifts? You39。s no better way to make your mark on the world and to share that abundance with constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater , let me end with one of my favorite quotes from Martin Luther said, “Not everybody can be famous.” And I don39。ve bequeathed to all of you know the story of how this great school came to be, how the Stanfords lost their only child to typhoid at the age of had every right and they had every reason to turn their backs against the world at that time, but instead, they channeled their grief and their pain into an act of a year of their son39。it means acting with of you know that, as President Hennessy said, I started this school in I founded the school, where I39。t feel right, don39。 is what I39。s where I learned that after eight months, I lost that said I was too was too since they didn39。d go back and I39。s a friendly name: Suzie.” Hi, can39。re like, “Listen, this is my is not about you.” So, it39。ve learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons, lessons from the grandest university of all, that is, the universe 39。t know what you39。m so proud of Kirby, who graduates today with two degrees, one in human bio and the other in you, Kirby Cakes!That39。大學剛開始，成年時代也才剛開始。我不是在試圖說服你們都成為音樂家或者作家。）想象我們現在面臨的局面。具有道德勇氣的個人往往讓周圍的人感到不舒 服。我說，那些在耶魯和斯 坦福這類名校的孩子往往比較謹慎，去追求一些穩(wěn)妥的獎勵。s just successful），而且是根據非常狹隘的成功定義而認定的成功而已。你為什么做它，到底為了什么。s what smart kids do.）。你從 生物化學專業(yè)的學生變成了博士，再變成心臟病學家，再變成專門做心臟瓣膜移植的心臟病醫(yī)生。除了在所有課程上都出類拔萃之外，你還注重修養(yǎng)的提高，充滿熱情地培養(yǎng)了一些特殊興趣。你 能進入這所大學說明你在某些技能（skills）上非常出色。再讀三年大學，三五年法學院或醫(yī)學院或博士，然后再干若干年住院實習生或博士后或助理教 授。s easy, the way the system works, to simply go with the flow.）我不是說這個工作容易，而是說做出這種選擇很容易。你拒絕了上大學預修歷史課（AP history）時的美妙體驗的誘惑，也無視你在醫(yī)學院第四年的兒科學輪流值班時照看孩子的可怕感受。她 還說，這個年輕的女孩子說哈佛學生把他們的自我效能帶到了世界上，如她所說的“創(chuàng)新”（innovative）。當你進入大學，人家給你眾多選擇，或法律或醫(yī)學或投資銀行和 咨詢以及其他，但你同樣也可以做其他事，做從前根本沒有人想過的事(something that no one has thought of before)。不僅如此，光有道德想象力還不夠。（You39。在 兩年前的哈佛事件中，有個學生談到我說的大學生需要重新思考人生決定的觀點，他說“我們已經做出了決定，我們早在中學時就已經決定成為能夠進入哈佛的高材 生。由此，你 成為更完整和強大的人（a fuller and a stronger person）。m so happy to be here, just happy that I finally, after four years, get to see her 39。m going to let this college thing go and I only had one credit , my father, from that time on and for years after, was always on my case, because I did not 39。m not going to get anywhere without that , I finished my coursework, I turned in my final paper and I got the my dad was very I know that, if anything happens, that one credit will be my I also know why my dad was insisting on that diploma, because, as put it, “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take that away from you.” And learning is really in the broadest sense what I want to talk about today, because your education, of course, isn39。t you hate it when somebody says, “I39。t feel first sign, as President Hennessy was saying, was when they tried to change my news director said to me at the time, “Nobody39。t like the way I now I am black and bald and sitting on a pretty even worse than being bald, I really hated, hated, hated being sent to report on other people39。ve kept a journal since I was 15—so I now have volumes of , I39。t feel right, don39。s good for buying having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful you want is money and want your work to be meaning is what brings the real richness to your you really want is to be surrounded by people you trust and treasure and by people who cherish 39。t react against a bad situation。s a lesson that39。ve been called, as so many of you here today getting doctorates and other degrees, to the professions of business, law, engineering, humanities, science, medicine, if you choose to offer your skills and talent in service, when you choose the paradigm of service, looking at life through that paradigm, it turns everything you do from a job into a I know you haven39。ll all be officially Stanford39。You39。 savings were being spent on my college six months, I couldn39。ve always believed that everything is better when you share it, so before I go, I wanted to share a graduation gift with your seats you39。t matter, they e out and say, “Ohmigod, it39。re hurting, you need to help somebody ease their you39。that39。s just life39。t know what to do, get still, get very still, until you do know what to when you do get still and let your internal motivation be the driver, not only will your personal life improve, but you will gain a petitive edge in the working world as , as Daniel Pink writes in his bestseller, A Whole New Mind, we39。s where everything that followed for me I got that you39。t read my copy, because something inside me said, this should be , I wanted to get the news as I was giving it to the , sometimes, I wouldn39。d grown up not really loving my name, because when you39。clock news coanchor job at 22 was such a big felt like the biggest deal in the world at the I was so proud, because I was finally going to have my chance to be like Barbara Walters, which is who I had been trying to emulate since the start of my TV , I was 22 years old, making $22,000 a it39。s really why we39。d say, “Well, I still don39。m getting ready to go to Stanford.” I just love saying “Stanford.” Because the truth is, I know I would have never gotten my degree at all, 39。這意味著，你自身的深廣也將遠超你現在的想象。我請求你們做的，是根據正確的理由做出你的選擇。如果你自我教育的話，更糟糕?？梢坏┯腥嗽姜z，其他人都會跟著跑出去?！盀槊绹獭碑斎皇呛脰| 西，但引用這個項目來反駁我的觀點恰恰是不得要領，實際上正好證明了我想說的東西。不是走現成的道路而是創(chuàng)造一條屬于自己的道路。讓 我通過告訴你們一個同伴的故事來解釋我的意思吧，即她沒有遭遇的情況。你做那些事能給你帶來好處，讓你的父母感到驕傲，令 你的老師感到高興，也讓朋友們羨慕。你 開始懷念那個曾經談鋼琴和打曲棍球的人，思考那個曾經和朋友熱烈討論人生和政治以及在課堂內容的人在做什么。所以，你在數學、鋼琴、曲棍球等眾多方面都很出色。（We are more than our jobs, and education is more than a major.）教育也不僅僅是上大學，甚至也不僅是從幼兒園到研究生院的正規(guī)學校教育。專 業(yè)化（specialization）的問題是它讓你成為專家（specialist），切斷你與世界上其他任何東西的聯系，不僅如此，還切斷你與自身其 他潛能的聯系（It cuts you off, not only from everything else in the world, but also from everything else in yourself.）?；蛟S你從來沒有想過當心臟病醫(yī)生，只是碰巧發(fā)生了而已。也許你確實想當心臟病學家。當我指出這一點時，她十分震