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In the 38 years old of average age and the head of Harvard.
Why do they come in the carrier middle?
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With graduate student's image in Harvard? (Picture: Komaer/PIXTA)
When you hear a graduate student in Harvard, how do you imagine it? American top school over the sea. The brand which is Harvard in the campus a turf feels which is wide. You have a clear head outstandingly and don't know a collapse, and without having trouble, when and where is number 1 being also stolen--? Such impression?
Before I came to Harvard, too, it was such image. But it's so different that an actual graduate student in Harvard may say that it's complete.
After working for an average of 13 years, why is it to Harvard?
For example graduate school and Kennedy school in Harvard I learn. The average age of the student of a Master's course who belongs is 38 years old. Among 214 classmates and the most advanced age are the proprietor who are small and medium enterprises by 61 years old. The average number of years of the professional career keeps having had an experience various lives through work by "13 years".
"There is no social experience" like the young people who advanced towards a graduate student straight from a university, there are no cases that I say "A collapse has not been tasted." In fact I taste a collapse by work and privacy, stop once with the second half of the game in a life at the front and work, and would like to change the mind about the meaning to live. The mass of the 38 years old of average age who worries so.
Harvard Kennedy school. A classmate is only a man of the world in the carrier middle.
There is a conventional question which asks the classmate who met for the first time at Harvard.
"At what destination did you come here?"
It's heard so, and, such as physics and literature, in detail, "I have come to study learning.", I don't know the person who returns it. Rather by a serious face, "I'd like to become a politician and reconstruct economy in home." "I'd like to lose poverty from my country." "I'd like to start the group to help the senior citizen who doesn't have the family.", the word which can't be imagined from the graduate school which should study learning is returned.
Why do you come to the graduate school not a study, but for "realization of a dream"? That's because Kennedy school learned at present is a little different graduate school. When I say, it's the place where the adult who had a member of society experience learns the way to make the world better.
A same school is called a public policy graduate school. Kennedy school is telling politics, economy and leadership to a host like the law school which tells a law and the business school which tells management.
A name of school was put for John F. Kennedy of the 35th generation Chief Excutive which is also from Harvard. The school which brings up a politician, a staff of an international organization, a bureaucrat and a social activist of NGO (nongovernmental organization) mainly. A graduate needs bread of UN secretary general, Klaus of GIMUN and a World Economic Forum (Davos meeting) founder, Lee of SHUWABU and a Singaporean prime minister and SHENRON.
The course which calls that I belong Master in Public Administration (MPA and public business administration master). "The professional career of about at least 3 years" is asked, but to apply when having a work experience for more than 7 years, you can apply to a course as Mid-Career MPA (MPA for mid carriers). Even graduation usually needs 2 years, but you can graduate from courses for mid carriers in 1 year. Therefore it's said that there are a lot of human resources who also have abundant life experience at Harvard.
Student's background is the Hyakunin one hundred color.
I'd like to introduce classmates with what kind of background gather.
First occupation. That classmates are looked around, "father" "venture capitalist" "UN staff" "local government official" "politician" "military personnel" "social entrepreneur" "NGO staff" "investment bank person" "system engineer" "policeman" "company management" "analyst" "diplomat" "lawyer" "professor" "boffin" "management consultant" etc..
Classmate Dan of the most advanced age (61 years old) (the left of a picture) and writer (the said right). I'm carrying on a factory of a transportation equipment part at the State of Ohio in home.
National origin is also "Indonesia" "Sri Lanka" "Brazil" "Costa Rica" "Uganda" "Nigeria" "Lebanon" "Iraq" "Italy" "Croatia" etc.. To the extent a name of the country throughout the country goes up Asia, Africa, Europe, South America and the Middle East, and I think "Is this UN?" When national origin will be counted actually, I go up to 77 worlds.
214 classmates who combined the 38 years old of average age x occupation x 77 country universe. There aren't similar circumstances and man who works and meets as one person.
Such, when I gather the human resources who don't have a common point at all in one place and make them learn, what happens? It's said that that I came here and noticed "isn't the one learning at a university limited during class". There even is learning from usual a form of conversation because classmates and others have an experience a life different from oneself.
For example about labor. When the lunch was made a classmate the other day, various problems were raised. A classmate of a fashion model from New York, "Fashion industry looks showy, but there is a laborer in the developing country worked by the inferior environment in its back. When buying clothes, do we consider their viewpoint?", it was thrown.
Then a lawyer of human rights from South Asia, "To support household budget in a mother country, there are a lot of ladies worked by force at a factory of clothes. Discrimination between the men and women is still a persistent problem.", it's returned. For myself to see and advance talk based on the experience I concerned to work, conversation is being just asked at the side, and it's very interesting.
When a member is different, every heavy talk is discussed by a European immigration point, a Syrian civil war and Japan-China relations while walking by the way home while having lunch while having coffee.
Why did you stop a reporter and come to Harvard?
Why did I necessary for such environment now come to Harvard? Before coming here, in 9, I was working as a reporter by Nihon Keizai Shinbun. It's the trigger which became a reporter that an impact was received in a quarrel with the Jew and the Arab who traveled Israel Palestine at a college student and saw at the site.
The square in the school and the John F. Kennedy forum to which Prime Minister Abe who visited America lectured. A student usually rests and every heavy talk is exchanged.
"Why does a person fight? And can't this cruel quarrel be stopped somehow?". I aimed at the work to complain to the world of the problem consciousness and became a reporter. The actuality was severe. Correspondence to the news which happens every day and the daily life run after by trivial duties. During staying in busyness, I had begun to forget the starting point. I thought "I'd like to reconsider the meaning of the work and a target in a life once more. I left the work once." in the trigger one between work set suddenly. I think so, consider studying abroad and am in Harvard now.
Such the worries and problem consciousness led to a pass in Harvard actually. American unification tests for graduate schools, essay (wish motive note) and letter of recommendation like results in college days and a Japanese national center test for university as GMAT or GRE are needed to enter Kennedy school.
If it's an idea that I became familiar with a Japanese entrance examination, I'd think "When is a score of a test most important?" But an essay is most important by an entrance examination in Harvard.
The following problem was presented to an essay last year at Kennedy school.
Submit a statement that discusses your career goals, as well as the factors that led you to select the Mid-Career MPA program as a means of furthering your personal and professional goals. Be as specific as possible in describing how your expected course of study will enable you to build on your prior professional experience and achieve these goals. (750 word limit)
(Writer translations) describe your future target. Describe the reason that you choose a Master's course of Kennedy school (the Mid-Career MPA program) to achieve a dream as a business worker again as an individual. State why learning at Kennedy school leads a dream to realization again using experience as your business worker as specifically as possible.
The number of characters of the restriction is English, 750 words. They're about 1500 in Japanese. The former life is told by only 1500 words, present is placed and learning at Harvard is linked in the future. When I say to Steve who told a life by a graduation ceremony of Stanford University and Jobs-like, the work by which I'll take a line ties a point as the past and now, and is needed.
Why learning at Harvard "is needed in a life now" in the line, I think out, grope after the way to link a line in the future and bump against an essay obediently. In fact the former work and life experience which weren't always smooth at that time are living. And though the way which connects in the future is faint, it's being also seen.
A motto of a motto of Kennedy school "Ask what you can do" catches attention in the inside of the school.
There is such motto which showed a school tradition at such Kennedy school.
"Ask what you can do" (Care what can be made you.)
Originally, it's the inside word of the speech President Kennedy told by an inaugural. Write that I who learns at Harvard now by a former reporter can do about learning at Harvard and an experience. And it's to return valuable learning at Harvard to even a little many people. The education technique to change discord of Harvard , a dream and the world Harvard University tells is being introduced by this serialization.
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平均年齢38歳、ハーバード生の「頭の中」
なぜ彼らはキャリア半ばでやってくるのか？
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林 イム 哲矢 :ハーバード大学ケネディスクール学生2015年10月27日
コメント0「平均年齢38歳、ハーバード生の「頭の中」 なぜ彼らはキャリア半ばでやってくるのか？ | ハーバード、その学びは一流なのか - 東洋経済オンライン」
ハーバードの大学院生のイメージとは？（写真 :Komaer / PIXTA）
ハーバードの大学院生と聞くと、あなたはどうイメージするだろうか。海の向こうの米国のトップ校。芝生が広がるキャンパスに、ハーバードのブランド。頭は抜群によく、挫折を知らず、苦労もせずにいつどこでも1番をかっさらっていく――。そんな印象だろうか。
私もハーバードに来る前はそんなイメージを持っていた。だが、実際のハーバードの大学院生はまったくといっていいほど違う。
平均13年働いた後になぜハーバードへ？
たとえば私が学ぶハーバードの大学院、ケネディスクール。所属する修士課程の学生の平均年齢は38歳。同級生214人のうち、最高齢は61歳で中小企業の経営者。職歴の平均年数は「13年」で、仕事を通じてさまざまな人生経験を得てきた“苦労人”ばかりだ。
大学からまっすぐ大学院生に進んだ若者のように「社会経験はありません」「挫折なんて味わったことがない」ということがない。むしろ仕事やプライベートで挫折を味わい、人生の後半戦を前に、一度立ち止まって働き、生きる意味を考え直したい。そう思い悩む、平均年齢38歳の集まりなのだ。
ハーバードケネディスクール。同級生はキャリア半ばの苦労人ばかりだ
ハーバードでは初めて会った同級生に聞くお決まりの質問がある。
「君は何の目的で、ここに来たんだい？」
そう聞かれて、物理学や文学といった具体的な「学問を勉強しに来ました」と返す人を知らない。それどころか、真剣な顔で「政治家になって故郷の経済を建て直したい」「自分の国から貧困をなくしたい」「家族のいない高齢者を助けるための団体を立ち上げたい」など、学問を勉強するはずの大学院からは想像もできないような言葉を返す。
なぜ研究ではなく「夢の実現」のために大学院に来るのか。それは現在学ぶケネディスクールが、少し変わった大学院であるからだ。言うならば、世の中をよりよくするための方法を、社会人経験を得た大人が学ぶ場所だ。
同校は公共政策大学院と呼ばれる。法律を教えるロースクール、経営を教えるビジネススクールと同様、ケネディスクールは主に政治や経済、リーダーシップなどを教えている。
校名はハーバード出身でもある第35代米国大統領のジョン・F・ケネディにちなんでつけられた。主に政治家や国際機関の職員、官僚、NGO（非政府組織）の社会活動家などを育てる学校だ。卒業生には国際連合事務総長のパン・ギムン、世界経済フォーラム(ダボス会議)設立者のクラウス・シュワブ、シンガポール首相のリー・シェンロンなどがいる。
私が所属するのはMaster in Public Administration（MPA、公共経営学修士）という課程。出願するには「最低3年ほどの職歴」が求められるが、7年以上の職務経験があればMid-Career MPA（ミッドキャリア向けMPA）という課程に出願できる。通常なら卒業まで2年が必要だが、ミッドキャリア向けのコースは1年で卒業できる。そのため、ハーバードでも人生経験が豊富な人材が多いと言われている。
学生のバックグラウンドは百人百色
どんなバックグラウンドを持った同級生が集まるかを紹介してみたい。
まず職業。同級生たちを見わたすと、「神父」「ベンチャー投資家」「国連職員」「地方公務員」「政治家」「軍人」「社会起業家」「NGO職員」「投資銀行家」「システムエンジニア」「警察官」「会社経営」「アナリスト」「外交官」「弁護士」「大学教授」「研究員」「経営コンサルタント」など。
最高齢（61歳）の同級生ダン（写真左）と筆者（同右）。故郷のオハイオ州で輸送機器部品の工場を営んでいる
また出身国も「インドネシア」「スリランカ」「ブラジル」「コスタリカ」「ウガンダ」「ナイジェリア」「レバノン」「イラク」「イタリア」「クロアチア」など。アジア、アフリカ、ヨーロッパ、南米、中東など各地の国名があがり、「ここは国連なのか」と思うほど。実際に出身国を数えてみると、世界77カ国に上る。
平均年齢38歳×職業×世界77国を組み合わせた214人の同級生たち。ひとりとして同じような境遇、仕事、経験を持った人間などいない。
そんなまったく共通点のない人材をひとつの場所に集めて学ばせると、何が起こるのだろうか。ここに来て気づいたのは「大学での学びは授業中に限ったものではない」ということだ。自分と違った人生経験を同級生らが持っているため、普段のちょっとした会話からでも学びがある。
たとえば労働について。先日、同級生とランチをしているとさまざまな問題が提起された。ニューヨーク出身のファッションモデルの同級生が「ファッション業界は華やかに見えるけど、その裏には劣悪な環境で働かされている途上国の労働者がいる。私たちは服を買う時に彼らの立場を考えているだろうか」と投げかけた。
すると南アジア出身の人権弁護士が「母国では家計を支えるため、衣料工場で無理に働かされている女性が多い。男女間の差別がいまだに根強い問題だ」と返す。自らが見たり仕事でかかわったりした体験などを基に話を進めるため、会話を横で聞いているだけでとても興味深い。
メンバーが違えば、ヨーロッパの移民問題、シリアの内戦、日中関係などありとあらゆるヘビーな話が、コーヒーを飲みながら、ランチを食べながら、帰り道で歩きながら話し合われている。
なぜ記者をやめてハーバードに来たのか
このような環境に今いる私は、なぜハーバードに来たのだろうか。ここに来る前は日本経済新聞で9年、記者をしていた。大学生の時にイスラエル・パレスチナを旅し、現地で見たユダヤ人とアラブ人との争いに衝撃を受けたことが記者になったきっかけだ。
訪米した安倍首相が講演した校内の広場、ジョン・F・ケネディフォーラム。普段は生徒が憩い、ありとあらゆるヘビーな話が交わされる
「人はなぜ争うのだろうか。そしてこのむごい争いをどうにか止められないだろうか」。自らの問題意識を世の中に訴えられる仕事を志し、新聞記者になった。ただ、現実は厳しかった。日々起こるニュースへの対応や雑務に追われる日常。忙しさの中に身を置く中で、自らの原点を忘れかけていた。仕事の合間のふとしたきっかけに「改めて仕事の意味や人生の目標を見直したい。一度仕事を離れてみよう」と思った。そう考えて海外留学を検討し、今ハーバードにいる。
実際にそういった自身の悩みや問題意識がハーバードの合格につながった。ケネディスクールに入るには、大学時代の成績、GMATもしくはGREという日本のセンター試験のような米国の大学院向けの統一試験、エッセイ（志望動機書）、推薦状などが必要だ。
日本の入試に慣れ親しんだ考えなら「試験の点数がいちばん大切なのでは？」と思うだろう。だがハーバードの入試では、エッセイが最も重要だ。
ケネディスクールでは去年、エッセイに次のような問題が出された。
Submit a statement that discusses your career goals, as well as the factors that led you to select the Mid-Career MPA program as a means of furthering your personal and professional goals. Be as specific as possible in describing how your expected course of study will enable you to build on your prior professional experience and achieve these goals. (750 word limit)
（筆者訳）あなたの将来の目標を述べなさい。個人として、また職業人としての夢を達成するために、あなたがケネディスクールの修士課程（the Mid-Career MPA program）を選ぶ理由を述べなさい。ケネディスクールでの学びが、なぜあなたの職業人としての経験を生かし、また夢を実現に導くのか、できるだけ具体的に述べなさい。
制限の文字数は英語で750語。日本語では約1500語だ。たった1500語でこれまでの人生を語り、現在を位置づけ、ハーバードでの学びを将来につなげる。スタンフォード大学の卒業式で人生を語ったスティーブ・ジョブズ的にいうと、過去と今という点を結び、線にする作業が必要となる。
その線の中で「なぜ今、ハーバードでの学びが人生に必要なのか」を考え抜き、線を未来につなげる方法を模索し、エッセイに素直にぶつける。そのとき、必ずしも順調ではなかったこれまでの仕事や人生経験が、むしろ生きてくる。そして、未来につながる道がかすかながら見えてきたりもするのだ。
校内にはケネディスクールのモットー「Ask what you can do」の標語が目につく
そんなケネディスクールには、校風を表したこんなモットーがある。
「Ask what you can do」(あなたに何ができるかを問いなさい)
もともとは、ケネディ大統領が就任演説で語ったスピーチのなかのひと言だ。元記者で今ハーバードで学ぶ私にできるのは、ハーバードでの学びや体験について書くこと。そして少しでも多くの人にハーバードでの貴重な学びを還元することだ。この連載ではハーバード生たちの葛藤や夢、ハーバードが教える世界を変えるための教育方法などを紹介していく。
