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Remark at the World Higher Education Forum and
the 10th Anniversary of the Founding of the International School, JUFE
Distinguished leaders, guests, members of the faculty, ladies and gentlemen of the International School,
Good morning!
For the privilege of delivering the speech at this very spectacular ceremonyI’m honored and grateful. So thank you very much, not only for inviting me back to join in the celebration of the 10th anniversary, but for the special opportunity to have a vivid recollection of our beautiful college life also.
Actually, I’ve wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say today in the past few days. In the end, I decided to start with my impression of international school, from which I graduated 5 years ago. It was a newly established school, whose mission was to cultivate students who have good proficiency in English to be international talents with open mind, broad vision and adaptive capacity. Now every time when I look backward, I feel very strongly that I’m so proud and unbelievably lucky to be a part of this famous and wonderful school. You may ask, what’s the big deal of your school? Where do your pride and faith come from?
Truth be told, I’m not a big fan of those boring clichés, such as ‘my school is great because I’ve learned a lot of knowledge that is useful to my work’ or ‘I have several successful alumni from International School’. As a matter of fact, I’ve come up with two different answers.
First, the practice of bilingual teaching in major courses provides us with a mimic overseas study experience. We read textbooks of original foreign versions, we were taught by teachers who spoke English, we were required to do the extracurricular reading in English, and we delivered all the reports in English. Then, something magical came along: our life was so overwhelmingly filled with English that we talked in English even in the sleep! However, it's absolutely worth it when I personally experienced being asked by foreigners whether I had lived or studied abroad for several years. See, how could you not be proud of yourself, and of our international school as well?
Second, the philosophy of providing modern education, instead of imparting knowledge only, is all that matters. Honestly speaking, I’ve almost forgotten most of knowledge that I’ve learned at school. However, I think it was international school’s philosophy of helping build us up mentally and psychologically, and forming good habits that makes significant difference in our professional career. Supervisors were so aware of the importance of habits, like being open-minded, being a lifelong learner and thinking independently etc, that we were not only told to form these good habits, we were also tutored and coached on how to make them regular practise. After the 4 years’ modern education, we become who we are—people who always gain leaders and colleagues’ trust in work no matter how tough the task is, people who never stopped learning no matter how busy they are, and people who see things with a wider horizon no matter how difficult it is to get the right vision.
Yes, it’s these two distinctive characteristics that make International School special, and as a part of this group, we could just enjoy all the good qualities it has brought to us!
So be international, and be real us! Thank you!