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There is a popular belief that a college education is something to be endured in order to become qualified to obtain certain kinds of jobs or to go to graduate school.
有一種普遍的觀點認為，大學教育是一種可以忍受的東西，以便能有資格獲得某些工作或去讀研究生。
This is not what we're trying to do at Harvard.
這不是我們在哈佛做的。
The most obvious goal of a college education is to give knowledge, but it is far from the most important.
大學教育最顯著的目標是給予人知識，但這遠不是最重要的。
Remarkably few of the facts you learn here will remain in your memory for many years, and some of those that do might be proved false by new knowledge.
事實上你在大學里學到的知識很少會留在你的記憶中，其中一些又或許被新學到的知識推翻了。
At Harvard, we have looked to other things we can give that will last a little longer.
在哈佛，我們尋求了其他一些能夠延續(xù)更久的東西。
Among these things are certain habits of mind, such as the ability to have more critical analysis, to make more accurate and logical use of the information and so forth.
這些東西有一定的思維習慣，比如能夠進行更多關鍵性的分析的能力，從而更準確、更合理地利用信息等等。
In addition to these habits of thought, it is our hope that we can help you develop certain attitudes of mind like the willingness to accept uncertainty and the lack of definite truth.
除了這些慣性思維之外，我們的愿望是能夠幫助你開發(fā)某種心靈上的態(tài)度，比如愿意接受不確定性和缺乏道理的真理。
Beyond providing these qualities, a college education should try to lay foundation for the creative use of leisure time, which can be cultivated in the classroom.
除了提供這些素質，大學教育還應該在課堂上嘗試利用業(yè)余時間為創(chuàng)造性打下基礎。
Yet, the cultivation of this ability will also occur outside of the classroom.
由此，這些培養(yǎng)出來的能力也能在教室以外出現(xiàn)。
For example, on sports fields, in music room and so on.
例如在運動場上、音樂室內等等。
