福斯特法律顾问和希拉里

1. People say that you have a good combination of capabilities and characters in terms of you can be both collaborative and decisive at the same time, what has empowered you in terms of you know heading a firm line but also at the same time how to negotiate and work with other people.

I like to listen, I find people extremely interesting and especially in the place my Harvard, they know so much. If you listen to them, you learn a lot. So I like to try to figure out what I can learn from them, but also where they are. If there is a problem that I need to address, I'd like to hear they talk about that problem, so I can see what is the difference between how I am thinking this problem and how they are thinking about the problem, and what is the way to bridge that divide so this thing is a good contacts for setting up the possibility of the connection, and comprising, and collaboration. So I think my collaborationist comes partly from curiosity, and partly from a strategy of the problem solving. But I emphasis, and I have strong opinions on many things. There are some things I do not have strong opinions not at all. We went out for dinner the other night here. You don't know what to order, just order for me, I don't care. So I don't need to control everything. But there certain principles I have that I don't want comprise on. So once I listened, once I figured out where everyone is, I am willing to say here's we wanna to go.

2. Dealing with government, how about raising funds, part of the most difficult job and challenge for the president of leading university to raise fund.

I like fund thing, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed talk to the people who are interested in institution, and I enjoyed the challenge of having to explain myself. I think that fund thing is a very good discipline, because you have to be able to communicate. What matters, why is matters, what you are doing it is valuable. And That is very good things for a leader to have to do, so I found that I learned a lot from having to express myself in that way, and I learned a lot from those who care about the university when they say to me how they see it from their eyes from outside the university. So funding is something that could be fun.

3. Against women.

Well, people could say those things, or wouldn't say those things. What is the most important , what kind of job I did, whether I am a good president or not, whether I made the right decisions, whether I made the strong decisions? I'd really better do well. Myself I felt that women can do anything. I am not the female president of Harvard; I am the president of Harvard.

4. Part of your career has been about talking with young people, how are the different /what kind of things they expect from their college education as compare your day's college?

I think many students come to college today very pressure to succeed and they often have very narrow understanding what success might be there. They are quite focus on careers, on meeting to choose the career, and loaf rapidly to achieved that. I found when I was in college many years ago, we someone isolate from those pressure what have to be after college, we found we have more freedom to explore, and so I try to encourage students to take that freedom at Harvard, and to make sure they don't just march a long pre directed pad. As I told the elementary freshmen they take some risks, take a course unlike anything they ever expect to take, take the advantage of the marvelous verity of course this is Harvard the museums, the collections, the libraries, the opportunities to work and study internationally, and stressed themselves.

5.What kind of students would be your favorite or what kind of the students do you like the most?

The students I like the most either ones that are the curious, that follow their curiosity where ever lead them, that surprise me with the ways they come to ask questions and try to answer questions, with students that love what they are doing. That to me is the most delight part is being involved in the university.