Challenges and Opportunities for Students

演讲稿：Challenges and Opportunities for Students

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. At present, my fellow students and I have before us great personal and educational opportunities. At the same time, we are running into a variety of challenges.

Today's college education provides us with opportunities for bringing out the creativity and talent that we have within us. This is nurtured both by our learned professors, and by the growing dimension of knowledge sources, such as the World Wide Web and multimedia sources. Our educational experience is being transformed both within and beyond the traditional classroom. However, challenges still exist.

At the end of every semester, students in my university are required to fill out a questionnaire as a review of the previous semester. The questions usually cover a broad range of college life, from curriculum adjustment to canteen service. And almost every time, the questionnaire includes one essential question, that is: As a college student, what are your major challenges? And almost every answer includes two aspects: studying and professional. These two challenges will remain our preoccupations as long as we live in such a competitive world.

A series of challenges in our studies start from almost the beginning of our freshman year. We may wonder whether we've chosen the right major. We may wonder if the extracurricular activities add credits to our studies. We may work our heads off to get a glorious A, because B is already mediocre and C is almost unacceptable. Later on we may be competing with our hardworking, intelligent peers, including our best friends to get into an ideal graduate school. All of these sound so familiar and they have somehow made our college education so goal-obsessed that we sometimes fail to fully enjoy our educational experience.

Apart from challenges in learning, there are also professional challenges. The competitive world today has also brought about the "Knowledge Economy," which requires the effective use of knowledge for economic and social development, and also requires skilled and multi-oriented students with a marketable vocational sense. Therefore, sophisticated calculations upon the value of a university degree are being made. Graduate employability statistics are being scrutinized. Programs like resume writing and interview skills are seen as a must. Again as I've said above, when professional concern dominates our college education, we may lose the essence of our educational experience.

Indeed, facing these two challenges, how can students manage to be what the employers seek and at the same time to enjoy a valuable, insightful and rewarding educational experience?

For me, the solution to the problem lies in what can be called an "Educational Synthesis". I remember attending a lecture by Professor Tu Weiming, director of Harvard Yenching Institute. In his lecture, Professor Tu argued that the ideal state of college education is to arrive at a synthesis, a combination of specific knowledge, humanistic insight and sense of social responsibility.

Admittedly, there is much to do to bridge the gap between our educational experience in college and the social employment in society. "Educational synthesis" can help us narrow the gap. Fortunately, today's college education provides us with such a diverse world. From this diverse world we may choose what we want to form our own educational synthesis.

Ladies and gentlemen, as Charles Dickens once commented upon the time of the French Revolution, "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." And I'm afraid so it is with our time.

I believe, once we achieve our own educational synthesis, we will be able to transform our challenges into opportunities. We will be able to see the best time of our life. And more importantly, we will be able to see the best time of our nation. Thank you.

 

第二篇：关于自信的演讲稿

尊敬的各位领导、老师、亲爱的同学们：

大家好。

今天，我从容地走到了这个讲台，我坚定的目光里透视着什么，您能看见吗？今天，我欣喜得站在了这个讲台，我微笑的脸颊上又书写着什么，您能读懂吗？好吧，那就让我轻轻地告诉您：我坚定的目光里透视的是自信，我微笑的脸颊上书写的也是自信！

今天，我演讲的题目《自信,是最美的装饰》。

我曾经读过这样一个：一个相貌平平的女孩，一直为自己的貌不惊人而非常悲观，整日垂头度日。有一天，她到商场去买了一个非常漂亮的蝴蝶结戴在了头上，在服务员的啧啧赞叹中，她满意而自信地昂起头跑出了商场，跑到了同学中。同学们夸奖她抬头的样子可真美。她以为是美丽的蝴蝶结给她带来的美丽，所以就下意识地去摸她头上的蝴蝶结，然而她并没有摸到，那是因为她兴奋地跑出商场门口时蝴蝶结就已经掉在地上了，她的美是自信支撑起的昂首挺胸，是自信带给她的矫健步伐。

自信真可谓是一种美丽的装饰啊，她可以让普通变得魅力四射，也可以让平凡变得万丈光芒。不是吗，正因为有了自信，才有了晏子使楚佳话流传；正因为有了自信，才有了毛遂自荐千古传颂。诸如此类，比比皆是。我不由得又想起了疯狂英语的创始人李阳，如果没有自信，那么，常常不及格的他就会一蹶不振，又怎么会有疯狂英语风靡全中国呢？我还情不自禁地想起了伟大的数学家陈景润，如果没有自信，那么，语言表达能力不强、讲不好课的他，就会颓废消沉，世界数学殿堂里不

就少了一位熠熠闪光的中国人了吗？当年，钱学森如果不是对着热血沸腾的中国青年说出那句“我们中国人并不比外国人差”的豪言壮语，又怎么会有今天中国的载人航天飞行让全世界惊羡？当年，如果没有爱迪生一千多次的反复试验，又怎么会有我们今天霓虹闪烁、流光溢彩的美妙生活呢？??

太多太多的“如果”之事，让我们感慨万千，太多太多的自信之人，让我们肃然起敬。

自信，真的是一种美丽的装饰，有了它的装点，人间拥有这么多的美丽，有了它的装点，世界拥有这么多的美好。

我们是新时代的，在这竞争激烈的年代里，只要把自信带在身上，便会充满信心，绝不自卑。正确认识自己，战胜自卑心理。调查显示：３０％左右的大学生，存在着明显的自信心不足的问题，贫穷、成绩差、相貌平平都可能成为自卑的原因。世界上没有完美的人。夸大不足，就容易忽略优势，关注缺点，就容易忘记优点，这是人在不知不觉中形成的心理习惯。大学新生要全面地审视自我，先找找我们自己-的优势和缺点，再确定自己的目标，要知道，皇天不负苦心人，努力终会有收获

再让我们把目光聚集在当今吧：因为自信，26岁的大学毕业生魏思源，目前已拥有众多头衔——中国企业管理协会首席运营官、中国学盟主席、中育诚成人力资源研究院首席代表、《津门大学生》杂志运营总监，多么令人折服，多么令人敬慕啊；谁都坚信，谋事在人，而正因为有了自信，成事业在人。

办公室墙面上，“创新·创业，我们为梦想而飞翔”的激励语以及“潜能·激情·行动”等字样的宣传画引人瞩目，该创业工作室团队成员平均年龄不到20岁而且都是在校大学生。在“梦飞无线”那个不足50平方米的陋室中，竟批量生产出了10多个学生富翁，靠的是什么？无可置疑的是——自信！

自信是超越自卑的动因，自信又是超越自卑的果实。作为AIB的大学生，与清华北大相比，也许有很多同学在许多方面会自卑，但如果我们有了自信，那就是在给自己机会，如果自卑，那就绝对没有机会！我们需要机会与机遇，我们就必须自信地等待机会与机遇。的确，我们有什么理由自卑呢，我们的生活是多么的充实，我们的学习又是多么的快乐呀！我们深知，只有自信才能处变不惊，只有自信才能反败而胜。我们自信，那是因为我们冷静的自我评估而并非妄自尊大；我们深深地知道，自信的基础是智慧，所以，我们不敢怠惰，不断地积累着知识，我们深深地知道，自信的基础是才能，所以我们不敢轻慢，时时地锻炼自己，提高自己，超越自己。

在我们大学生的内心，激荡着李白“天生我才必有用”的豪迈气概，也回响着王维“会当凌绝顶，一览众山小”恢弘气势，还吟诵着毛泽东“数风流人物，还看今朝”的千古绝唱，这气概，这气势，这绝唱，滋长在我们的心中，那就是自信带给我们的无比美丽与美好。如果你是女学生，我建议，咱们把自信当成一个无形而美丽的蝴蝶结，把它戴在头上，它会带给我们傲人的美丽；如果你是男生，我真希望，你们把自

信看作是一条无形而漂亮的领带，把它系在你宽厚的胸前，愿你们拥有自豪的容颜。

尊敬的老师，亲爱的同学们，我在这个讲台上，要大声地说出我们大学生的誓言：只要我们用自信来装饰自己，那么，美丽将永远与我们同在！