2017级新生开学典礼双语讲话稿与2017级新生开学典礼学长代表致辞合集.docVIP

2017级新生开学典礼双语讲话稿与2017级新生开学典礼学长代表致辞合集 2017级新生开学典礼双语讲话稿 20**级新生开学典礼双语讲话稿 Dear freshmen, ladies and gentlemen: Good afternoon! It’s a big ceremony for our school today: it’s joyous and memorable, for you, the new students, young and fresh, have e to join us. The constant leave and arrival of students verify the unique vitality of the university. Here on behalf of our school--- School of International Studies, I extend our warm wele and express our gratitude to all the freshmen, no matter whether you willingly or reluctantly chose to e to our school, to bee members of our big family. You may have assumed that the university is the place where you are to be prepared for your future career, just as James Duderstadt, professor, educator and former president of Michigan University claims: one of the university’s aims is to equip the students with knowledge and ration, in order to make them fine citizens and enable them to have a meaningful life.True, the university does that thing. But more important, as Mr Liang Qichao explained, what an university really does is to have students “learn to be a MAN”, that is , to be “a knowledgeable man free from perplexity, a benevolent man free from worry, a courageous man free from fear” . To him, all the disciplines and knowledge the university provides for you are “just means for the makings of MAN, but not the end in themselves”. Then, a question may be asked: how to be a man free from perplexity, worry and fear, a man useful for human kind, the country and your family? In Chinese culture, the traditional value has it: aspiration makes a man. My first word of advice to you, therefore, is ASPERATION. Wang Yangming, a Chinese scholar of Ming Dynasty, believes : “Without aspiration, one can reach no where.” Mr. Yang Changji, teacher of Mao Zedong, told Mao and his classmates: “one’s final achievements depend largely on his aspiration. Aimless, a born-talent will end up a mediocrity; aspirated, a mon person can turn into a great man.” A