浙外校长致2014级新生的一封信英文版：Welcome Speech 2014
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一封信作文 网为您 提 供浙外校长致2014级新生的一封信英文版：Welcome Speech 2014
Dear new students,
Welcome to Zhejiang International Studies University.
Just two months ago, we bid farewell to the university’s first1202 enthusiastic and promising graduates. Their departure promptsme, as their president and teacher, to reflect on what we haveaccomplished together during their three or four-year stay here andwhat we need improve for the incoming students. I went to a fewgraduates with this question. Their answers both surprised andencouraged me. The most memorable aspect of this university, theyreplied, is not the buildings, facilities, and campuses which “haveyet to be made a bit more impressive” (as they used to complain),but rather, her conscientious and warm-hearted teachers and staffwho attach great importance to student growth.
Teachers and staff in this university care much for theirstudents, not only for their progress in study, but also for theirmaturity in character, their development in moral integrity, andtheir achievement in soul-making. Upon your arrival this comingSeptember, you will surely meet a smiling teacher who will besitting with you in your dorms, listening to your concerns andhelping you acclimatize to the new environment. Starting from yoursophomore year, you will have mentors who will help you overcomewhatever difficulties you may encounter in your study and life. Inclassrooms, your teachers will throw themselves heart and soul intoperspective-altering teaching and help you explore the true meaningof free spirit, self-reliance and independent personality. In thesubsequent years of your university life, as you branch out to trynew challenging and creative endeavors, your teachers will guideyou to a myriad of research projects and campus activities thatwill give full play to your potential. If you intend to experiencethe real world, your teachers will initiate you to social practice,helping you understand the present social condition and true valueof human existence. Finally, as seniors, your teachers will adviseyou through the next transition in your life, whether that isjob-hunting or pursuing further graduate studies.
Perhaps, some of you have been told that, in universities,teachers and students are “distanced”: the professors are off doingwhat they call academic work, often leaving their students to theirown. That, however, is not true in this school. We believe that theparamount obligation of a school is to nurture students, to helpthem grow, mature, and advance in the general direction of theirdreams. Of course, academic-powered faculty, together withimpressive college buildings, state-of-the-art facilities, all areindispensible in running a university. But they are just the means,not the end. The ultimate end of highereducation should be the cultivation of a whole person. The successof a university relies on the success of each individualstudent.
Have you ever read Kahlil Gibran’s poem “On Children”? I’d liketo use his poetic image of “bows and arrows” to inspire all of us.Let us, the teachers, be the bows from which you, the students, “asliving arrows are sent forth.” The bows will be stable and ready tobend themselves with gladness so that the arrows can “go swift andfar” toward “the mark upon the path of the infinite.”
With best wishes,
Hong Gang
President of Zhejiang International Studies University
一封信作文 网为您 提 供浙外校长致2014级新生的一封信英文版：Welcome Speech 2014
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