耶鲁校长开学演讲：耶鲁要使你们成为审辩者_演讲

耶鲁校长开学演讲：耶鲁要使你们成为审辩者

8月27日，耶鲁大学迎来了新一届本科生，校长彼得·沙洛维对新生作了题为“对失实表述说不”的演讲。演讲中，沙洛维没有谈论高大上的话题，而是详细阐述了在耶鲁接受教育的一个重要内容：学习如何辨别和应对“失实表述”。在他看来，成为一个更加审慎的批判性思考者，才能提高而不是削弱洞察力。

Good morning and welcome: to my colleagues here on stage, to the family members who have joined us today, and—especially—to the Yale College Class of 2020.

Twenty-twenty—a term that inevitably brings to mind perfect eyesight. And now that all of you are wearing 2020 as your class label in Yale College, I am confident your intuition and your mental acuity will develop here to an equivalent level of strength. The admissions office assures me that everything possible has been done to guarantee this outcome.

Nonetheless, I’d like to reflect—on your “first day of school”—about what might impede your insight and what might advance it in the course of your education here.

For many years, I taught introductory psychology to large numbers of freshmen. In the part of the course devoted to social psychology, I would ask my students to consider what we know about helping others in various kinds of social situations. Specifically, why is it that we offer assistance, or fail to offer assistance, in emergencies?