从学校毕业步入社会,每个人都面临着一个单项选择题:你要选择怎样的人生?在英剧《神探夏洛克》中扮演大反派莫里亚蒂的"莫娘"安德鲁·斯科特,诵读了美国首位黑人女法官伊迪斯·S·桑普森的演讲。她给毕业生们出了这样一道单选题:你会用你受过的教育和获得的学位,让自己过上一种怎样的生活?假如你将用一生来践行这个选择,你会选择五个选项中的哪一个?
You graduates have every right to expect penetrating words of profound wisdom.
Unfortunately, though, I am going to have to disappoint you and present to you a multiple-choice test the last of your college career.
The only consolations that I can offer in presenting the test are that you may consult texts freely, the test is self-scoring, and you have a lifetime at your disposal now to complete it.
This exam will be proctored, though.
The proctors will be two – the community in which you live and, hardest taskmaster of all, your inner self.
The question: What do you do with your education now that you have it – and now that it is beginning to become obsolete even as you sit here?
Choose one of five possible answers.
Choice One: Put your diploma in a convenient drawer and close the drawer.
Put whatever textbooks you've accumulated in a bookcase and close the bookcase.
Put your mind to the dailiness of earning a satisfactory livelihood and close your mind.
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