【田家炳国际】毕业典礼校长寄语
时间： 2019-06-13
来源： 田家炳国际
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上海田家炳中学校长 王曙先生
尊敬的威廉姆·亨利先生、刘校长、老师们、同学们：
大家好！今天是我校国际课程班2019届学生即将毕业的特殊日子，首先我谨代表学校党政向所有的毕业生表示热烈祝贺，也借此机会，向一直以来关心和陪伴你们成长的家长们表示衷心的感谢，更要向为了同学们走向世界、走向未来作出不懈努力的全体老师们表示最诚挚的谢意，你们辛苦了！
高中四年中外融合国际课程的学习，在中外教师们的友好协作和共同努力下，为每位学生继承中华民族优秀文化传统、开拓国际视野、确定强烈责任感奠定了厚实的基础。虽然景凤路185号将在你的生命中渐行渐远，但我衷心希望田家炳中学为你们打下的基础能成为你们永远的精神家园，伴随着你们的人生旅途。
在你们即将离开母校之际，我向大家提几点希望：
一、不论身处何地，都要恪守为人之道
同学们即将开启异国他乡的求学之路。然为学之道也是为人之道，希望同学们在大学的学习生活中，要把立人放在首要位置。与不同国家的同学交往要注意“周而不比”，合群又不偏私；要做到“言必行，行必果”；要追求“知行合一”的崇高境界。中华民族几千年的文化，滋养出坚毅、宽宏、勇敢的民族性格，希望同学们都能成为中华文化的代言人。
二、不论知识深浅，都要锤炼思维品格
多元文化环境中的学习，对于我们开阔视野、锻炼思考问题、分析问题的能力是一个不可多得的机遇。中西文化的碰撞，一定会给同学们带来更多思想上的启迪。汪曾祺晚年在一篇文章中曾写到这样一件事：“有一位曾在西南联大任教的作家教授在美国讲学。美国人问他，西南联大八年，设备条件那样差，教授、学生生活那样苦，而培养的人才比北大、清华、南开三十年培养的人才都多，这是为什么？这位作家回答了两个字：自由。”从这个意义上来说，同学们海外求学就已拥有了学术自由和选择自由的条件，这对于我们思想的锤炼弥足珍贵。有了非凡的思考力，你就是一个强大的人。
三、不论艰难险阻，都要拥有阳光心态
在异国他乡，同学们在学习和生活中必定会碰到不少的挫折和困难，也会面临各种压力，然而生活如果都是一帆风顺，你将在哪里挥洒奋斗的汗水？成长如果波澜不惊，你又如何体会“我含着泪一读再读，却不得不承认，青春是一本太仓促的书”？因而挫折失败并不可怕，只要心中永远有着灿烂的阳光，那勇气和快乐就会永远伴随着你。
最后，衷心希望同学们珍惜美好的青春岁月，志存高远，不负韶华，成才成人！
我的发言完了，谢谢！
美国Chapel Field学校校监 William先生
Congratulations class of 2019!
It is an honor to be standing here before you today. I bring greetings from your sister school in New York, Chapel Field Christian School. It is wonderful not only to visit your country, but to visit your school and to witness your amazing accomplishments.
You are at the end of your High School career and I am sure that it seems as if time went by very quickly. Just yesterday you were beginning and now here you are graduating and preparing to go to university. Many exciting things await you at the university and beyond, new studies, new career, marriage and families of your own. It is an exciting time. But it is also a good time to reflect back on what has brought you to this point and what you have gained from your time here. I am sure you are thankful to your parents who supported your attendance at this school. I am sure that you are thankful for faithful teachers and an administration who gave you the education you have received. They have all cooperated in making you who you are today, but what exactly have you received?
What is the purpose of it all? What is the purpose of an education? To get into the perfect university? To get the perfect job? Certainly life is more than university or career and so must our education be. Education must be about shaping us into healthy, thriving people, people who have learned what things are important, true, good, and beautiful. I often tell our students back in New York that their education is like a treasure hunt. They should approach their studies not merely to pass tests, but in order to discover gold and silver in the truths of their subjects. They are to search with all their hearts for wisdom and seek with all their hearts to become virtuous.
The reality is that you have been led to truth and wisdom by your teachers and parents. They have entrusted you with tools for continuing the search. They have shown you where to find it and what questions to ask in order to discover it. What will you do with these tools? A British educator from the 19thcentury, Charlotte Mason, once said that all education is self-education. That is, you are ultimately the only ones who can educate yourselves. Teachers can teach, but only you can learn. Teachers cannot not do it for you. I have no doubt that your teachers have done a brilliant job in teaching. Now it is your job to take and apply.
I want to challenge you to be good stewards of the gifts that have been given to you by your teachers and parents. Make them proud by becoming men and women of honor and virtue. It is my hope for you all that as you leave this place you are walking away with bags full of treasure, with piles of wisdom. I am hoping that you have become thinkers who are able to discern truth and error. And I hope that the treasure hunt will continue for the rest of your lives, for the quest for truth and wisdom never ends.
As we say back in America, May God bless you. Thank You!
