2022 世界五大的学校毕业演讲04=普林斯顿大学

g onward feels exhausting, daunting, or just plain dull.

Persistence is, I admit, a rather unglamorous virtue by comparison to, say, genius, creativity, or courage.

An old adage, often but perhaps erroneously attributed to the nineteenth century humorist Josh Billings, praises persistence by comparing it to the postage stamp, which achieves success simply by “sticking to one thing until it gets there.”Modest though it may be, however, persistence is at least as important to achievement, including academic achievement, as are any more celebrated characteristics.You earned your degrees today in many ways and for many reasons, but not least because you persisted brilliantly throughout your time on this campus and away from it.

You persisted not only through a world-altering pandemic, but through problem sets, writing assignments, laboratories, midterms, finals, senior theses, dissertations, and the personal crises and doubts that are an inevitable part of college life and, indeed, of life more generally.Getting to and crossing the finish line is hard, which is why we celebrate college degrees so enthusiastically.The degree you earn today matters tremendously. And it really is the degree that matters most, far more than the honors or other decorations that go with it. I do not know if this comes as welcome news or bad tidings, but I must tell you that there is surprisingly little correlation between grade point erage and success in later life.

But getting a college degree? That correlates with everything from higher incomes to better health to greater civic engagement—and the list goes on.Persisting through college matters, which is why we celebrate Commencement day with admiration and exuberant joy.At Princeton, students he taken different paths through the challenges of the pandemic. Some took a year off, some did not. One way or another, however, graduation rates for Princeton students remain sky-high.We should recognize, however, that is not true everywhere.

At college Commencements around the country, there are missing chairs and missing students this year, and there will likely be more missing chairs in the years to come.Some students left school during the pandemic and he not returned. Some high school students who might he gone to college he made other choices instead. Though the data is incomplete, both problems appear to he a disproportionate effect on students from less advantaged backgrounds and those who attend community colleges and other public, two-year institutions. That is a tragedy. A tragedy because, as I said a moment ago, the degree matters. All of us who attend ceremonies like this one, all of us who celebrate students who he earned a college degree, should recognize the urgent need to bring back those who he found the path to a college degree blocked or unpassable.

It is especially damaging when students drop out of college after incurring debt, even if the amount of debt is small. When media outlets cover student debt, they like to focus on the eye-popping loans some students accumulate. In fact, though, most student loan defaults involve students with small debts who lee college without getting a degree. If students persist to graduation, their earning power goes up, and they can often pay back even large loans.

Without a degree, they see no increase in earning power, and often find no way to pay back even small loans. Half a degree does not get you half the earning power: unfortunately, it gets you almost nothing.We need policies to help those who he left college. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, for example, has proposed a new “Some College, No Degree” program to assist the more than 700,000 New Jerseyans who left school without finishing. I hope that the legislature will fund the proposal. At the federal level, a bipartisan group of senators sponsored legislation, called the “ASPIRE Act,” that would he provided colleges and universities with incentives to improve their graduation rates and to increase their representation of low-income students. That bill did not pass; no proposal is perfect. One way or another, however, we need to make sure that talented students from low-income families get the support they need to make it to and through college.

One way or another, we need to add back the chairs missing from graduation ceremonies around the country.I hope that today and in the week ahead, as you celebrate your degree, you will take time to thank the friends, family members, teachers, mentors, and others who helped you to persist across the finish line. None of us succeed on our own, in normal times or in difficult ones.

And, in that spirit, I hope, too, that as all of you pursue quests and adventures beyond this campus, you will help others to persist across the finish line as you he done so remarkably yourselves.I know that, whatever you do, you will make Princeton proud, and that you will put your talents, creativity, and character to work in ways that we can scarcely imagine today.All of us on this platform are thrilled to be a part of your celebration. We applaud your persistence, your talent, your achievements, and your aspirations. We send our best wishes as you embark upon the path that lies ahead, and we hope it will bring you back to this campus many times.

We look forward to welcoming you when you return, and we say, to the Great Class of 2022, congratulations!

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