邁克爾•桑德爾教授在清華經管學院授課“批判性思維與道德推理”

錢穎一院長的開場緻辭

2011年5月18日

今天我們非常榮幸地請到了邁克爾•桑德爾教授來參加我院的課程“批判性思維與道德推理”。這門由我院楊斌教授講授的課程，其最初的設立是受到了邁克爾在哈佛大學開設的課程“公正”的啟發。目前“公正”已經吸引了15000多名學生參與，而且它也是哈佛大學第一門能夠通過網絡和電視自學的課程。

大約一年以前，我在哈佛大學邁克爾的辦公室見到了他。我們就他的課程交談了一個多小時。邁克爾給我展示了他的課程教材，講述了他的授課方式，并解釋了為什麼他需要70多名助教來協助他講授這門課。我當時就邀請他來清華經管學院上一次課，這門課就是我們學院計劃新開設的、與他的授課主題相似的一門必修課，也是今天這堂課的由來，我非常高興在一年多以後這個約定終于實現了。

這個學期楊斌教授與15名助教以及200名學生一起開始了一段勇敢的或許是曆史性的探索，這就是我們新開的必修課程“批判性思維與道德推理”。我相信這是中國所有大學在這方面的首次嘗試。在哈佛的課程裡，“公正”被列為“道德推理22”。我們把自己的課程命名為“批判性思維與道德推理”，我們強調的是“批判性思維”，這門課程是我院正在進行的本科教育改革裡面的重要嘗試之一。

邁克爾是我們今天這堂課非常特殊的客座教授。他願意給我們的學生授課，表明他非常支持我們對于beat365課程改革的嘗試。我院同事以及同學們都非常感謝邁克爾對我院及更廣大的中國本科教育改革的支持。這不僅僅隻是一堂課，這是一個新時代的開端。

邁克爾，謝謝你參與我們的課堂，也謝謝你成為中國本科教育改革的一分子。

附：錢院長緻辭英文原文

Opening Remarks at Michael Sandel’s Lecture

in the Class of “Critical Thinking and Moral Reasoning”

at theSchoolofEconomicsand Management atTsinghuaUniversity

Yingyi Qian

Dean,SchoolofEconomicsand Management,TsinghuaUniversity

May 18, 2011

It is our great honor and fortune to have Professor Michael Sandel with us today to participate in our class of “Critical Thinking and Moral Reasoning.” This course by Professor Bin Yang of our school is of course very much inspired by Michael’s “Justice”course at Harvard, which has enrolled over 15,000 students and is the first Harvard course made freely available online and on public television.

About a year ago, I visited Michael in his office at Harvard. We talked over an hour about his course. Michael showed me his course materials and explained to me his way of organizing the class and why he needed more than 70 teaching fellows to co-teach the class. I then proposed to him for a visit to our school at Tsinghua to give a lecture in a new required course under school’s planning on the similar subject. That was the origin of today’s lecture. I am so delighted to see that after more than one year this finally came true.

In this semester, Professor Bin Yang, his 15 Teaching Fellows, and his 200 students began a heroic, and perhaps historic, venture to launch the new required course we named “Critical Thinking and Moral Reasoning.” I believe that it is the first of its kind in any Chinese universities. “Justice” at Harvard is listed as “Moral Reasoning 22.” We name it “Critical Thinking and Moral Reasoning” to emphasize the “critical thinking” aspect. It is a part of a great experiment in undergraduate education currently under way in our school.

Michael is our very special guest professor for today’s class. His willingness to teach in this course shows his strongest support to our experiment of curriculum reform at theSchoolofEconomicsand Management atTsinghuaUniversity. My colleagues and students at the school greatly appreciate Michael’s support for the course of undergraduate education reform not only in our school, but also more broadly, inChina. This is not just one class; it is a beginning of an era.

Thank you, Michael, for being part of this class, and for being part of the undergraduate education reform inChina.