李开复写给女儿的一封信？ college will be the most important years in your life. it is in college that you will truly discover what learning is about. you often question “what good is this course”. i encourage you to be inquisitive, but i also want to tell you : “education is what you have left after all that is taught is forgotten”. what i mean by that is the materials taught isn’t as important as you gaining the ability to learn a new subject, and the ability to analyze a new problem. that is really what learning in college is about – this will be the period where you go from teacher-taught to master-inspired, after which you must become self-learner. so do take each subject seriously, and even if what you learn isn’t critical for your life, the skills of learning will be something you cherish forever. 大学时光将是你人生中最重要的时光，你会在大学里真正发现学习的真谛。你经常问“学这个课程有什么用”。我鼓励你保持好奇心、善疑善问，但是我想告诉你的是：“所谓教育就是忘记你在学校所学的一切之后所剩下的东西。”我的意思是说，重要的不是你要学到的知识，而是你学习新事物、分析新问题的能力。这才是大学里真正要学的东西——这将是你从被动学习向自主学习转换的阶段，从那之后你将会变成一个自学者。所以，就算你所学的并不是你生活所需，你也要认真对待每一门功课，因为学习的能力将是你受用终身的宝贵财富。 do not fall into the trap of dogma. there is no single simple answer to any question. remember during your high school debate class, i always asked you to take on the side that you don’t believe in? i did that for a reason -- things rarely “black and white”, and there are always many ways to look at a problem. you will become a better problem solver if you recognized that. this is called “critical thinking”, and it is the most important thinking skill you need for your life. this also means you need to become tolerant and supportive of others. i will always remember when i went to my ph.d. advisor and proposed a new thesis topic. he said “i don’t agree with you, but i’ll support you.” after the years, i have learned this isn’t just flexibility, it is encouragement of critical thinking, and an empowering style of leadership, and it has become a part of me. i hope it will become a part of you too. 不要被教条所束缚，任何问题都不是只有一个简单的答案。还记得高中辩论课时，我总是让你站在你不认可的那一方来辩论吗？我之所以这么做是因为，事物并不是非黑即白，看待问题有很多的方法和角度。当你意识到这点的时候，你就会成为一个很好的问题解决者了。这就是“批判性思维”——一种你一生都会用到的最重要的思考方式，这也意味着你还需要包容和支持不同于你的其他观点。我永远记得我去找我的博士生导师提出一个新论题时，他告诉我：“我不同意你，但我支持你。”多年后，我认识到这不仅仅是一种变通，更是一种对批判性思维的鼓励，一种敢于放权的领导风格。现在这已经成了我的一部分，我希望这也能成为你的一部分。 follow your passion in college. take courses you think you will enjoy. don’t be trapped in what others think or say. steve jobs says when you are in college, your passion will create many dots, and later in your life you will connect them. in his great speech given at stanford commencement , he gave the great example where he took calligraphy, and a decade later, it became the basis of the beautiful macintosh fonts, which later ignited desktop publishing, and brought wonderful tools like microsoft word to our lives. his expedition into calligraphy was a dot, and the macintosh became the connecting line. so don’t worry too much about what job you will have, and don’t be too utilitarian, and if you like japanese or korean, go for it, even if your dad thinks “it’s not useful.” ：） enjoy picking your dots, and be assured one day you will find your calling, and connect a beautiful curve through the dots. 在大学里，你要追随自己的**，选择自己感兴趣的课程，不要被别人的想法或说法所困扰。史蒂夫•乔布斯曾说过，在大学里，你的**会创建出很多的“点”，而在你后来的人生中你会把这些“点”串联起来。在他著名的斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲中，他举了一个很好的例子：在大学里他曾修了书法课，十年后，这成了苹果机漂亮字库的基础，也因为此，才有了后来的桌面出版系统，才有了我们日常使用的像微软word这样出色的工具软件。他对书法的探索就是一个“点”，而他创建的苹果电脑就是连接线。所以，不必过分担心将来会从事什么工作，也不要过于急功近利。假如你喜欢日语或者朝鲜语，那就去学，就算爸爸认为“那没用”。尽情地去选择你的“点”吧，你要坚信有一天你会发现自己的使命，并用这些“点”勾勒出一条美丽的曲线。 do your best in classes, but don’t let pressure get to you. your mother and i have no expectations for your grades. if you graduate and learn something in your four years, we would feel happy. your columbia degree will take you far, even if you don’t graduate with honors. so please don’t give yourself pressure。during your last few months in high school, you were so happy because there was little pressure and college applications are finished. but in the past few weeks, we saw you are beginning to worry (did you know you bite your nails when you are nervous?). please don’t be worried. the only thing that matters is that you learned. the only metric you should use is that you tried. grades are just silly letters that give the vain people something to brag, and the lazy people something to fear. you are too good to be either. 在功课上尽自己最大努力，但不要给自己太多压力。你妈妈和我对你在成绩上没什么要求，只要你顺利毕业并在四年里学到了些东西，我们就很高兴了。即便你毕业时没有取得优异的成绩，仅仅哥伦比亚大学的学历也会带你走很远。所以别给自己压力。在高中的最后几个月，因为压力小了，大学申请也办完了，你过得是那么地开心。但是在最近的几个星期，我们发现你又开始陷入忧虑了。（你注意到你紧张时会咬指甲吗？）请不必担心，唯一重要的是你学了，而唯一可以衡量你学习的就是你的努力程度。成绩只不过是爱慕虚荣的人用来吹嘘和懒惰的人所恐惧的愚蠢的数字而已，而你是如此优秀，既不虚荣，也不懒惰。查看更多
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