几个月前,我面试了一个从常春藤盟校毕业,有一个GPA高得令人发指的男生。他想写作关于中东政治方面的文章,于是我们开始谈论1956年的苏伊士运河危机 Pop quiz, Class of '12: Do you?
突击检查一下,12届毕业生们,你们知道吗?
Many of you have been reared on the cliché that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong. I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.
人们一直说教育的目的不是灌输式地记忆,而是学习如何思考。乱扯。在我长期面试在校生的印象中,我发觉许多面试者的思维就像古旧的地图一般,有许多区域是因为没有认知而空白着的。很多情况下我觉得他们并不是缺乏动机或是智力不足,而是当他们根本不知道知识从何而来的时候,无法建立知识点间的联系。
Now to Fact Two: Your competition is global. Shape up. Don't end your days like a man I met a few weeks ago in Florida, complaining that Richard Nixon had caused his New York City business to fail by opening up China.
现在让我们来谈谈第二桩事实:你们所面对的竞争是国际化的。努力吧,别像我前两天在佛罗里达所遇到的那个商人一样,在你的余生中抱怨是尼克松总统对中国开放的政策悔了他曾经在纽约的业务。
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