作为一个像新东方这样的教育机构,我认为我们必须有为国家和社会服务的能力。我们应该培养学生独立思考的能力,良好的个性,扎实的知识和创造力。更重要的是,我们需要赋予学生终身学习、全球视野、独立人格和社会责任方面的技能。这是我们今天的任务。对于新东方的未来,我们希望成为中国和世界优秀教育内容、系统和学习平台的集成商和提供者。我们希望新东方成为终身学习的服务商,提供从学前教育到终身教育的高科技产品。我们还将努力探索技术和教育与人文教育的结合。更重要的是,我们将致力于促进中国的教育均衡,为中国农村儿童提供高质量的教育服务,为他们的未来开辟一条光明的道路。
Finally, I would like to say a few things about my personal goals.
最后,我想谈谈我的个人目标。
First, I hope to contribute to the "whole-person education" of Chinese children and their overall development. Second, I hope to do more in family education. New Oriental has been working in this area for more than a decade and I still feel there’s more to do. Third, I hope to contribute to the combination of technology and education. Fourth, I hope to do more to help children in rural areas to get better education. For example, this year I plan to return to a rural high school in a poverty stricken area to work as an honorary principal. I want to make efforts to bring some high-quality resources to such schools so that children in rural areas who may have no hope for high quality education will in one day enter a prestigious university in China or other countries.
首先,我希望为中国儿童的“全人教育”和他们的全面发展做出贡献。第二,我希望在家庭教育方面多做些工作。新东方在这方面已经工作了十多年,我仍然觉得还有更多的工作要做。第三,我希望为科技与教育的结合做出贡献。第四,我希望做更多的工作,帮助农村儿童获得更好的教育。例如,今年我打算到贫困地区的一所农村高中担任名誉校长。我希望努力为这些学校带来一些高质量的资源,帮助那些对高质量教育毫无希望的农村儿童有朝一日能够进入中国或其他国家的名牌大学。
For us, when we come into this world, in addition to satisfying ourselves with food and clothing, in addition to caring for our own family members, we always aspire to do something good for human development and social progress. That’s exactly what New Oriental is doing. And, that’s exactly what I’m doing. We also look forward to working together with other educational institutions and colleagues from the rest of the world to create a better education for the world. We often say that the economy is for today, politics is for tomorrow, but only education is for the future of mankind.
对我们来说,当我们来到这个世界上,除了满足自己的衣食需求,除了照顾我们自己的家庭成员,我们总是渴望做一些有益于人类发展和社会进步的事情。新东方就是这么做的,我也是这么做的。我们也期待着与其他教育机构和来自世界其他地方的伙伴合作,为世界创造更好的教育。我们常说,经济是为了今天,政治是为了明天,但只有教育才是为了人类的未来。
Now New Oriental has a slogan “A Better You, A Bigger World! ” Let’s become a better you, and then we can leave our children to go to a bigger, brighter world.
现在新东方有一个口号是“A Better You, A Bigger World!” 让我们成为一个更好的自己,帮助我们的孩子走向一个更大、更光明的世界。