1 00:00:12,599 --> 00:00:15,366 I want to tell you a thing, though, because here's 2 00:00:15,366 --> 00:00:19,766 the thing, goody bags are-- it's a little bit of what's 3 00:00:19,766 --> 00:00:20,333 going on here? 4 00:00:20,333 --> 00:00:21,333 This is a lecture class. 5 00:00:21,333 --> 00:00:22,699 Why are we getting goody bags? 6 00:00:25,699 --> 00:00:31,699 And it's because I believe in the soul of MIT. 7 00:00:31,699 --> 00:00:33,933 I believe in the soul of MIT. 8 00:00:33,933 --> 00:00:39,499 And that is that we learn best by thinking and doing, 9 00:00:39,499 --> 00:00:41,633 by thinking and doing. 10 00:00:41,633 --> 00:00:43,533 And even though this is a lecture class, 11 00:00:43,533 --> 00:00:44,733 I still want you to do. 12 00:00:44,733 --> 00:00:47,033 I want you to have stuff in your hands 13 00:00:47,033 --> 00:00:48,733 so that you can play with the chemistry 14 00:00:48,733 --> 00:00:49,799 that we're learning about. 15 00:00:52,999 --> 00:00:54,766 Now, this goes back. 16 00:00:54,766 --> 00:00:55,866 I said the soul of MIT. 17 00:00:55,866 --> 00:00:56,933 What do I mean? 18 00:00:56,933 --> 00:01:04,266 This goes back, all the way back to before MIT was born, 1850s. 19 00:01:04,266 --> 00:01:06,566 You've got a group of really smart people. 20 00:01:06,566 --> 00:01:08,433 They're getting together and they're meeting. 21 00:01:08,433 --> 00:01:09,899 And they're saying, OK, we're going 22 00:01:09,899 --> 00:01:11,699 to start up a new university. 23 00:01:11,699 --> 00:01:13,966 What should we do? 24 00:01:13,966 --> 00:01:15,966 And they wrote out a plan. 25 00:01:15,966 --> 00:01:16,899 They wrote out a plan. 26 00:01:16,899 --> 00:01:18,333 And it's called the institute plan. 27 00:01:18,333 --> 00:01:20,133 That makes sense, 1860. 28 00:01:20,133 --> 00:01:22,299 It's a great read. 29 00:01:22,299 --> 00:01:23,866 But I want to pull out one part that's 30 00:01:23,866 --> 00:01:26,466 really important, that what they wanted 31 00:01:26,466 --> 00:01:32,333 to do with this great new institution was to do something 32 00:01:32,333 --> 00:01:36,033 that would serve the interests of the commerce and the arts, 33 00:01:36,033 --> 00:01:39,533 as well as of general education, call for the most 34 00:01:39,533 --> 00:01:41,966 earnest cooperation of intelligent culture 35 00:01:41,966 --> 00:01:44,699 with industrial pursuits, intelligent culture, 36 00:01:44,699 --> 00:01:46,399 industrial pursuits. 37 00:01:46,399 --> 00:01:52,233 That is Mens et Manus. 38 00:01:52,233 --> 00:01:54,799 Mind and Hand. 39 00:01:54,799 --> 00:02:00,066 It's so important to MIT that we put it on our logo. 40 00:02:00,066 --> 00:02:01,466 We put it on our logo. 41 00:02:01,466 --> 00:02:03,833 That's how important it is. 42 00:02:03,833 --> 00:02:09,066 We don't put some animal on our logo. 43 00:02:09,066 --> 00:02:13,733 We put what matters, mens et manus. 44 00:02:13,733 --> 00:02:15,933 We don't put the word truth. 45 00:02:18,699 --> 00:02:24,933 Veritas, veritas, I mean, I'm not going to name names, 46 00:02:24,933 --> 00:02:27,199 Harvard. 47 00:02:27,199 --> 00:02:31,033 But I mean, isn't that setting the bar kind of low? 48 00:02:31,033 --> 00:02:37,999 You know, were they lying before? 49 00:02:37,999 --> 00:02:39,299 I don't know. 50 00:02:39,299 --> 00:02:42,766 I'm not-- look, honestly I don't know. 51 00:02:42,766 --> 00:02:43,533 I don't know. 52 00:02:43,533 --> 00:02:47,433 But what I know is that what we know is that, of course, 53 00:02:47,433 --> 00:02:48,466 the goal is truth. 54 00:02:48,466 --> 00:02:50,199 The difference is, we know how to get it. 55 00:02:53,099 --> 00:02:56,266 Mens et manus is how to get it. 56 00:02:56,266 --> 00:02:58,599 Let me ask you a question. 57 00:02:58,599 --> 00:03:01,166 Why are you here? 58 00:03:01,166 --> 00:03:03,099 Not here in this classroom. 59 00:03:03,099 --> 00:03:05,599 I know you're in the classroom because you signed up for it. 60 00:03:05,599 --> 00:03:07,566 Why are you at MIT? 61 00:03:07,566 --> 00:03:11,266 Why are you here at MIT? 62 00:03:11,266 --> 00:03:14,766 I can tell you, you are here because you 63 00:03:14,766 --> 00:03:17,966 are some of the brightest, most gifted, most talented students 64 00:03:17,966 --> 00:03:20,166 on the planet. 65 00:03:20,166 --> 00:03:20,666 Right? 66 00:03:20,666 --> 00:03:22,266 Thank you, whoever said that. 67 00:03:22,266 --> 00:03:23,899 Agreement. 68 00:03:23,899 --> 00:03:26,133 That was like a like online. 69 00:03:26,133 --> 00:03:28,333 But you are here because you want 70 00:03:28,333 --> 00:03:32,833 to use those talents to make the world a better place. 71 00:03:32,833 --> 00:03:38,833 You are here because you know how to answer any question. 72 00:03:38,833 --> 00:03:42,033 But you are also here because you are going 73 00:03:42,033 --> 00:03:44,199 to experience a transition. 74 00:03:44,199 --> 00:03:46,599 You are going to experience a transition here. 75 00:03:46,599 --> 00:03:48,633 You are going to make the transition 76 00:03:48,633 --> 00:03:51,899 from knowing how to answer any question to knowing 77 00:03:51,899 --> 00:03:53,366 which question to ask. 78 00:03:53,366 --> 00:03:57,566 And that is the transition from student to scholar. 79 00:03:57,566 --> 00:03:59,066 That is MIT. 80 00:03:59,066 --> 00:03:59,966 That's mens et manus. 81 00:04:02,599 --> 00:04:06,033 Now, it's not easy. 82 00:04:06,033 --> 00:04:07,166 You don't come here-- 83 00:04:07,166 --> 00:04:11,133 nobody comes to MIT to phone it in. 84 00:04:11,133 --> 00:04:14,299 If universities were restaurants, 85 00:04:14,299 --> 00:04:17,699 this wouldn't be that fancy one where you go in and you order, 86 00:04:17,699 --> 00:04:19,832 and then somebody cooks and brings you your food. 87 00:04:19,832 --> 00:04:22,332 This would be the one where we all go back into the kitchen 88 00:04:22,332 --> 00:04:26,332 and together we make the best meal we've ever had. 89 00:04:26,332 --> 00:04:29,699 That's the MIT way. 90 00:04:29,699 --> 00:04:30,999 And it's not about-- 91 00:04:30,999 --> 00:04:37,066 you don't roam the halls here and bask in this reputation 92 00:04:37,066 --> 00:04:38,933 and think of it as some privilege 93 00:04:38,933 --> 00:04:44,899 to be here, because you are MIT's reputation. 94 00:04:44,899 --> 00:04:47,433 Freshmen, raise your hand. 95 00:04:47,433 --> 00:04:47,933 Yeah. 96 00:04:47,933 --> 00:04:49,866 Starting-- 97 00:04:49,866 --> 00:04:50,766 There's a few of you. 98 00:04:50,766 --> 00:04:55,366 Starting today, you are MIT's reputation. 99 00:04:55,366 --> 00:04:57,866 Starting today. 100 00:04:57,866 --> 00:04:58,733 It's on you. 101 00:04:58,733 --> 00:05:05,233 So we don't walk around these great halls and feel privilege. 102 00:05:05,233 --> 00:05:07,366 We feel responsibility. 103 00:05:07,366 --> 00:05:09,066 That's what it means to be here. 104 00:05:09,066 --> 00:05:09,566 OK? 105 00:05:12,533 --> 00:05:13,699 All right. 106 00:05:13,699 --> 00:05:14,466 Good.