Heard at Cornell is a column that regularly quotes important statements from Cornellians. This excerpt is taken from President Martha Pollack’s address at the December 17, 2023 Commencement Ceremony.
[H]ere at Cornell you’ve also developed the intellectual capacity and integrity to change your mind and to amend your beliefs when faced with new information. And you’ve learned, I hope, to communicate across difference: to seek and value diverse opinions, and to appreciate that not everyone interacts in the same ways, holds the same values, or sees the world in the ways that you do. The same problem can look very different when examined from a different angle; the same facts can form many different stories.
