高考作文素材积累之2022 世界五大名校毕业演讲精华集锦

1、又逢一年毕业季。这个特殊时刻在变幻莫测的时代背景下，凝聚了无数复杂的情感。在人生 每个阶段，都可能面临类似的结束和启程，而我们选择和态度，会直接决定生活方式和生命 历程。按照惯例，每年此时，美国各大名校都会邀请校长或名人，用他们丰富的阅历和人生经验, 给毕业生提供有价值的建议和指导。本期特别精选2022美国五大名校毕业演讲。这些充满智慧的言辞，能帮助我们从更宏观的 视角拨云见日，在睿智的思考判断下，作出属于自己的正确选择。我们没有权利选择出生和死亡，却有权利选择生活方式、价值观念及思想境界。愿你能有所 领悟，走出属于自己的精彩人生。斯坦福大学Stanford University6月12日，斯

2、坦福大学举行2022年毕业典礼，校长Marc Tessier-Lavigne发表激励人心的 毕业演说。他讲到世界瞬息万变，人生不是一条直线。鼓励大家在不同阶段，都要有改变和适应环境的 能力，以此寻求人生价值并服务社会。以卜是校长演讲的精华:Milt and Sylvia s stories are wonderful illustrations of the idea that life is lived in chapters. And what inspiring chapters they have been.The important thing about these example

3、s is this: We each have this ability to pivot through the years, to use our skills in new and different ways, to find new meaning, and to help solve the problems that our world faces.Let me be clear: Each of you has that ability to pivot. I know, because each of you had to pivot as the pandemic upen

4、ded your plans - yet you pushed through to complete your studies and graduate today.As the story of your own life continues to unfurl, I am confident that each of you will adapt as our world changes and as your own priorities and goals evolve, too.Reflecting on the examples of Milt and Sylvia, I, d

5、like to offer you three thoughts about the foundation you have built here at Stanford and how that foundation will support you through the chapters to come.First is the importance of lifelong learning and of continuing to explore.In your years here, you have acquired the tools and skills to continue

6、 learning, exploring, and adapting as the world changes.You ve learned to experiment with ideas, explore challenging issues, and test solutions to problems in every field. And beyond what you ve learned in the classroom, you ve used your skills to address real-world problems through hands-on service

7、 work.Like Milt, who kept up his medical skills through volunteer work, I hope you continue to use your skills and knowledge to serve your community.Beyond the fulfillment it will provide you, it will allow you to keep your skills sharp and to explore new ideas, now and in the years to come. That br

8、ings me to my second point: As you keep up your knowledge and skills, you should also continue to seek out different perspectives and hold space in your mind for competing views.Throughout your time here at Stanford, you ve encountered a diversity of perspectives and engaged in conversations across

9、areas of disagreement. It hasn t always been easy.But as you look beyond Palm Drive to the division and polarization that grip our country and our world, it s clear that this is a skill that our world desperately needs.The friends and mentors you have met here at Stanford have broadened your perspec

10、tive.As you enter the next chapter of your lives, I encourage you to continue to engage with many voices and to seek out discussion and debate. Honor your own values, but keep an open mind to learning from others perspectives and continue to bring the best version of yourself to those discussions.Th

11、ird, I urge each of you to imagine a brighter future and to figure out what your own unique contribution will be.Our world faces many challenges - from emerging and chronic diseases, to disinformation, to the climate crisis and geopolitical tensions.Each of you has the knowledge and the ability to r

12、ise to these challenges and to help transform our world for the better, for your own future and for the generations that fol low. I know you are up to the challenge. I ve seen it.As just one example, this spring, I ve been so proud of the ways in which the Stanford community has responded to the war

13、 in Ukraine - from our scholars at the Freeman-Spogli Institute and across the university, who have played a major role in advising U.S. policymakers and providing knowledge and insight into the conflict, to our Stanford students, who worked with a local nonprofit to organize a shipment of more than

14、 $120,000 worth of medical and humanitarian relief to Ukrainian refugees in Poland.The invasion of Ukraine by Russia was another stark reminder of how the world can change in an instant and how each of us - each of you - can contribute, in ways big and small.So I encourage each of you to reflect on

15、the challenges we face and to consider what your own contributions will be.Through the disruption of the last two years, each of us has had an opportunity to reassess our values and to reflect on what pursuits give us true meaning and fulfillment.So even as you celebrate all that you have accomplish

16、ed, I urge each of you to take time to reflect and to ask yourself:How can I shape a future that reflects what I ve learned about my values and priorities?And how can I help create a brighter future for my own community and for the world? As you take your next steps along your own path, you II carry

17、 Stanford with you. The work you ve done here will ripple forward through your life, propelling you through the early years of your career and providing you a foundation for a life of change and transformation.哈佛大学Harvard University5月24日，哈佛大学举行2022届本科生毕业典礼，时任哈佛校长Lawrence S. Bacow发表 演说。讲述疫情造成前所未有影响的同

18、时，指出人生道路的无限可能。鼓励学生相信自己，抓住预 期之外的机会，带着激情和热情拥抱未知。以下是演讲精华节选: 我坚信你们终会找到属于自己的道路，并在世界上留下自己的印记。当开始人生旅程的下一章程时，你会为所有等待你的未知感到兴奋，并对这段旅程可能带你 去向何方感到焦虑。会在纠结担忧这是否是正确的道路，抑或自己是否会成功。但职业生涯只有在回顾时才能明了。退休那天回顾过去，才知道一切是否具有意义。而正是 那些拐点时刻的决定，最终将你带到终点。但当你此时此刻，面对这些决定时，内心依旧会充满挣扎和犹豫。回顾过去35年的职业生涯，如果我对曾经的任何一段经历说不，今天就不会站在这里。 这并不意味着我有

19、先见之明或勇敢，只因为：我愿意主动接受此前从未考虑过的选择，并让 它将我引向未知。这种开放的心态将我带到精彩绝伦的地方，例如现在我所站的讲台。未来，无数机会会以出人意料的方式出现在面前。你要学会主动迎接，相信自己，而不是畏 首畏尾。曾儿何时，当我担忧某个决定时，母亲总会说：最糟糕的情况是什么？你能忍受吗？如果 可以，就去做吧。我希望你们能像我一样，从这个建议中获益并彻底解脱。一些无法预料的机会，将对你产生深远的影响，而拒绝将是一场悲剧。哈佛演讲和修辞学教授Jorie Graham曾在纽约大学专注电影制作。一天，她路过诗歌课堂，听到J. Alfred Prufrock爱情诗的台词：F我听到美人鱼

20、在唱歌，他 们彼此歌唱。我想他们不会为我而唱。那一刻，让Jorie Graham成为美国最杰出的诗人之一，普利策奖获得者，哈佛最受欢迎的 教员之一。诗人 Jorie Graham今年哈佛艺术奖获得者Ruben Blades,曾就读巴拿马法律专业。一个周末，院长看到他和乐 队表演，告诉他，如果他想表达律师的职业尊严，就必须停止唱歌。Ruben选择了音乐，在迈阿密推出个人专辑，并获得17项格莱美奖。音乐人 Ruben BladesRay Hammond毕业于哈佛大学和哈佛医学院，是一位成功的外科医生。直到有一天，他听 到一个声音在召唤他。如今他成为著名牧师，是波士顿最有影响力的领袖之一。精神领袖R

21、ay Hammond我之所以选择这些例子，是因为它们展示了新道路的随机性。Jorie. Ruben和Ray都无法想 象，一个声音会把他们带到哪里。但他们都在倾听，在密切留意着周围的世界。我希望你们记住：对人生有深远影响的随机事件，永远不会发生在屏幕上，只会发生在生 活中。想象某人停下来，被首陌生的诗触动;想象某人在意想不到的警告中，意识到内心的渴望; 想象某人感知到远超越自身的伟大力量。想想这些事情可能发生的地点和方式，带着激情和热情去拥抱这个真实的I出界。如果足够幸 运，你也许也会在某天，受到意外的启发。愿你充分考虑未来的机遇。愿你体验诗歌和音乐的甜美，跨越人生道路的重重障碍。愿你免 于焦虑

22、、恐惧和不确定，愿你永远被爱包围。英文演讲全文Welcome, members of the Class of 2022and soon-to-be-graduates of Harvard College.Exactly 1,359 days ago, we met at Convocation, and we began our first year together-you as undergraduates, me as president. I spoke about the merits of academic regalia, and I challenged you to us

23、e your waking hours as undergraduates-some 21,000 of them-to explore all that the University had to offer.Little did we know then that we would all confront a global pandemic that would test us in ways that we could not have imagined. I find it fitting that we are gathered here in these billowing ro

24、bes, a symbol not only of our membership in a community of learning but also of our experience these past four years, our experience of a Harvardof a worldblown about by winds that never existed before. And all of us carried along with them-and into the unknown.lt has been a wilder ride than any of

25、us could have expected.Candidly, when I made the difficult decision to send you all home on such short notice in March of 2020, I never imagined that two years laterand after one million people had succumbed to this virus in the US alone-we would still be dealing with this public health crisis. Your

26、 class has been tested as few others have been. You have demonstrated extraordinary resilience and patience, both skills that will serve you well as you prepare for life after Harvard.Based on what I have seen of you and how you have met this moment, I have great faith that you, like those who came

27、before you, will find your way, and will make your mark on the world. Let me take this moment to thank you for your perseverance, for your flexibility and your understanding. I don t think I have ever been prouder of any graduating class at any university than I am of the Harvard College Class of 20

28、22.One day, there will be enough distance for us to contemplate the enormity of what we have been through as a community, but that day is not todayand that is okay. For now, we can share a quiet moment to say goodbye to whatever we imagined these last 1,359 days might have held for us. For now, we c

29、an be grateful that we are here together - on the verge of your commencement and all that awaits you in the years ahead.It is quite common for students at this precise moment in timea day before your College graduation-to feel a combination of excitement and anxiety. Excitement for all that awaits y

30、ou as you begin the next chapter in the journey called life, and anxiety over where that journey is likely to take you. Some of you entered Harvard convinced of exactly where you wanted to go law school, medical school, a career in public service, for example.Some of you found your passion on this c

31、ampus and are now going to pursue academic careers or opportunities in journalism, the arts, or entertainment. And some of you are still searching. You may have a job lined up that will pay you well, but, if you are honest with yourself, you are still worried if it is the right path for you or if yo

32、u will succeed.One of the problems in trying to plan your career is that a career is only knowable in retrospect.On the day you retire you can look back and it all makes sense. You can identify the inflection points, the decisions, that brought you to where you ultimately wound up. But when confront

33、ing these decisions in real time, you will struggle. You will make lists of pros and cons. You will consult with friends and family. And you will agonize over these choices long into the night.I know what I am talking about because I have been there.As I was completing my PhD here at Harvard, Adele

34、and I thought we were headed to Washington, DC. It was the start of the Carter administration, and we were excited by the prospect of getting in on the ground floor. But then an unexpected opportunity came up:Would I like to return to my alma mater, Ml to fill in for someone going on leave for two y

35、ears?The salary was a fraction of what I would have made in DC and there was no guarantee of a job two years hence.A number of years latec I was still at MITnow on the tenure track but disheartened because my fabulously talented co-author didn t get tenure.I had concluded that if he did not get it,

36、I wouldn, t either, and I had just made up my mind to leave MIT and academia altogether when my department chair came calling:Would I consider taking on major administrative responsibility to launch a new academic program?Flash forward 35 years. I was a member of a presidential search committee, try

37、ing to find a leader for a university I care a lot about.I had been comfortably semi-retired-more or less-for almost seven years when the chair of the search committee approached me on behalf of the group:Would I consider becoming a candidate for the job?lf I had said “ no ” to any one of those ques

38、tions, I would not be standing here today. This is not to say that I am prescient or wise, or bravejust that I was open to seeing where roads I hadn t considered might lead me. That way of moving through the world has taken me to some pretty interesting places-being here, behind this podium, is one

39、of them.You, too, will have chances to consider other paths for yourself, paths that will appear to you unexpectedlyeven inconveniently. Be willing to take those chances. Believe in yourself. And don t be too concerned about failure. My late mother; Ruth, was a very wise woman.Whenever I worried abo

40、ut a decision, she would always say, What s the worst that can happen? Can you live with that? If you can, go for it. I hope you are as liberated by this advice as I have been throughout my life.Other discrete moments will influence you so profoundly that denying them would be a tragedy.Jorie Graham

41、, Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric, was once an undergraduate at NYU with her heart set on filmmaking. One day, walking past an open door of a poetry class, she heard lines from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. / I do not think they will

42、 sing to me. But sing they didand, because of that moment, Jorie went on to become one of America s most distinguished poets, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and one of Harvard s most beloved faculty members.Rub6n Blades, a musical giant and this year s Harvard Arts medalist, was once a law student in Pana

43、ma. One weekend, the dean of the school he attended saw him performing with his band. The dean took him aside and told him that if he wanted to be a lawyerto reflect the dignity of that professionhe would have to quit singing. Ruben ended up in Miami with a demo album a wild talent and ambition-and,

44、 eventually, seventeen Grammys.Ray Hammond, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, was a very successful surgeon. Then he heard another voice calling him. Today he is Reverend Ray Hammond, one of Boston s most influential spiritual leaders.I chose these examples because they demon

45、strate the randomness with which new roads will appear to you.Neither Jorie nor Ruben nor Ray could dream of where a single voice would take them, but they listened nonetheless, paying close attention to the world around them as they imagined how and where they wanted to focus their attention and ti

46、me.Now, I will say something that you may shrug off as nostalgia.But I hope you will remember it: Random events of profound influence don t happen on a screen Think of a person stopping in her tracks to listen to lines of unfamiliar poetry. Think of a person recognizing his desire in an unexpected a

47、nd unwelcome ultimatum. Think of a person tuning into something greater than himself.Think of where and how those things happen-and where and how they can, t or wont t. Engage and embrace the world personally with passion and enthusiasm and, if you are lucky, you too will someday be inspired by the

48、unexpected. Members of the Class of 2022: May you consider fully the paths that reveal themselves to you in the years ahead.May you experience the sweetness of both poetry and song, and marvel at the refrains that emerge as you make your way through life. May you be spared anxiety, dread, and uncert

49、ainty- and may you always be surrounded by people who love you.Best of luck to each of youand Godspeed.耶鲁大学Yale University5月22日，耶鲁大学校长Peter Salovey发表了致2022届毕业生的毕业演讲，主题为论 思想上的谦逊On Intellectual Humilityo那天，我描述了在斯坦福大学接下来岁月里，你们将意识到生活不是一条从始点到终点的直 线，它有你无法预见的曲折、转折和背离。我们任何人都无法预见这些年的变化。因为疫情，我们被迫关闭校园，大家学习新的合作

50、方 式，创立社区，以及在非常时期相互支持。所有人都在颠覆和适应中，学会了重要一课，明白世界瞬息万变，而每个人都应该学会适应 变化。当我想到生活充满意外时，常说：生命是漫长的，生命是分章节的。每个人的生活，都有不同的时代。有些即将到来，另一些那么会意外开始。而毕业典礼标志着 学生时代的结束，也标志着新篇章的开始。你可以开始家庭生活的全新篇章，可以搬到世上任何地方，进入个人开展、失落和变化的时 代。这些变化将持续终生，就像每个生命都会发生意想不到的曲折样。我想跟你们提供斯坦福大学校友Milt McColl的故事，他的人生道路，证明了生命是分阶段 的。Milt是才华横溢的运发动，1977-1980年

51、曾在斯坦福Cardinal队担任后卫，并获生物学学 士学位。毕业后他与旧金山49人队签约。同一周，被斯坦福医学院录取。以下是演讲的精华节选:南非前总统曼德拉曾说：如果你没有改变自己，就永远无法对社会产生影响伟大的和 平缔造者都是正直、老实但谦逊的人。在这个充满成就感的时刻，我希望你们认识到，思想的谦逊无比重要。你们所受的优秀教育 使你们能够认真听取他人的意见，思虑他人的言论，这会带来新的洞见。所以我的演讲将聚焦在成认未知的勇气，成认错误和改变想法。60年前，在战争阴影笼罩下，美国前总统肯尼迪在此发表演讲。他看到的局势与今天的动 荡类似，他在演讲中呼吁：要保持思想的谦逊。我们常将事实置于预设的解

52、释之下。我们常乐于接受观点，而不愿思考。但历史告诉我们: 确信不疑带来的严重危害以及滋生的狂妄。然而演讲后半个世纪，我们依然看到：隔阂让未经证实的观点肆意横行，无根据的推测不胫 而走，不和谐的气氛让真诚的交流举步维艰。简而言之，加强我们已有的共识愈来愈成为某种舒适圈，而试图质疑它们，那么变得难上 加难。但我想向你们呼吁：拒绝接受这种安逸，因为只有愿意探索新的想法，才有可能让事情有所不同。正如当年肯尼迪总统所言：一所伟大的大学，总会选择站在传播谬误的对立面，和真相站 在一边。教育的力量，不在于承诺教给你们一切，而在于让你们准备好，以有益的怀疑态度来应对各 种假设，包括自身处境的假设。它不在于回答

53、的能力，而在于敢于质疑的能力。作为毕业生，你们有责任将这种探究精神带向世界；有责任坚持将各种观点推出接受的舒适 圈之外；有责任带着追求理性的决心前行。事实上，智慧植根于接受不同想法的意愿。仔细聆听，批判思考，挑战原有观点，为发现真 理而改变。正如伟大的中世纪哲学家Mdsheh ben-Maimon,在其著作Pirkei Avot的导论中的劝诫: 接受真理，无论出自谁之口。与视角不同的人互动交流，并不会让我们背弃信仰；倾听可能不认同的观点并非妥协、，而是 对真理的忠诚；成认我们的错误并不意味着失败，而是走向博学的必经之旅。伟大教育的标志，不仅在于对新知识的探索，还在于对现有观点的重新思考；并不一

54、定意味 着收获了多少新知，而在于放弃了多少假设。只有当我们严格的审视那些I预设的解释，才能摒弃局限而获得真理。只有谦逊基础上的 勇于成认错误，才能使我们在追求真理的道路上，攀登至难以企及的高度。英文演讲全文Graduates of the Class of 2022, family members, friends, and colleagues. It is a special pleasure to be here with you today, a day made doubly meaningful by our ability to celebrate our graduates i

55、n person. I am delighted to welcome you to Yale, s first on-campus Baccalaureate ceremony since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.And after a three-year hiatus, there is a wonderful Yale tradition that I would now like to reinstitute:May I ask all the families and friends here today to rise and rec

56、ognize the outstanding一and graduatingmembers of the Class of 2022?And now, may I ask the Class of 2022 to consider all those who have supported your arrival at this milestone, and to please rise and recognize them?Thank you!*Our excitement today is tempered by global turbulence. We can see the peril

57、s of conflict and crisis around the world. Yet, as I look out onto this courtyard, I also can see the promise of those well prepared to better our collective future.Old Campus is filled anew with the boundless potential of graduates who offer cause for hope.Throughout the country on this weekend and

58、 those weekends surrounding it, presidents of colleges and universities are inspiring their graduating seniors by telling them that have received the very best education possible, and that as educated adults they are now ready to go out and make the world a better place. This is, of course, true in

59、many respects, and I have certainly spoken on other Commencement weekends of the importance of improving the world for this and future generations.But I would like you, graduating seniors from Yale College, to depart from this place with a somewhat different mindset. I am going to urge you to recogn

60、ize that your excellent education allows you to listen to others carefully, consider what they have to say, and sometimes come to a new point of view. I am suggesting todaya day filled with pride of accomplishmentto recognize, at the same time, the value of intellectual humility. Today, I wish to fo