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Looking for the spirit of China University

Faced with the situation that outstanding mainland students have left Peking University and Tsinghua to join Hong Kong universities, people exclaim that Peking University and Tsinghua have become second-rate. However, Qiu Chengtong, a professor at Harvard University, "blasted" China University for being "mercenary", which made many mainland universities lose face.

Universities were once sacred places in the eyes of China people. But today, when college students begin to "look down on schools", when poor parents commit suicide at high cost, when college professors regard plagiarism as a common practice, and when college students are accused of indulging in pleasure ... The college spirit of "inclusiveness and freedom of thought" in Cai Yuanpei's era seems impossible.

Some people say that China's higher education has lost its backbone and spirit, leaving only the naked pursuit of fame and profit. Some people even say that China has not had a university for more than 20 years, but only a "pre-job training institution for wage earners".

Is it time to rethink the university education in China? [Detail] [Let me say two words]

Recommended reading: [There has been no real university in China for 20 years] [What is the source of China university spirit].

China: There has been no real university for more than 20 years?

[Let me say something]

● All the misfortunes, sadness and stupidity of China in the 20th century lie in that there are almost no real universities at ordinary times, only talent training institutions, only places for training tools and only places for training obedient screws. Yao Guohua

Companies, businesses, karaoke bars, supermarkets, even karaoke bars and universities are all lacking except their own ideas. Zhang Rulun

What is educational equity? The University of Hong Kong teaches mainland universities.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong cancelled the interview during the admission process because they wanted to make the opportunity as fair as possible: "Those students who have the ability to come all the way to a five-star hotel to meet us and speak English with us will not be given opportunities, they will have many opportunities. For those students in Guizhou, Henan, the opportunities we provide are very important to them. The purpose of our education is to change the fate of students. " ——& gt； & gt& gt

Mainland universities: If you get high marks, children from rich families can go to famous schools and study popular majors, while children from poor families can only go to ordinary universities and study unpopular majors. How is this fair? ——& gt； & gt& gt

Related: Questioning Xu Zhihong, President of Peking University: Who owns Peking University and what is fairness?

What is academic ethics? Harvard professors "bombarded" China University.

The decline of university spirit is a harbinger of national depravity, which is more terrible than any economic corruption, political corruption and judicial corruption.

Qiu Chengtong: "Now many colleges and universities in China are mercenary, that is, looking at money and funds. Really, the research results never care. Why don't famous professors teach undergraduate courses? They are all for their own interests, so the situation of college students is much worse than before. Our professors at Harvard University must get in touch with undergraduates, otherwise they can't become professors. “——& gt； & gt& gt

University corruption: false grades, false knowledge and false interests are everywhere. Academic conferences, achievement appraisal, qualification examination and project approval processes are generally in the form of going through the motions, while eating, drinking, giving gifts, networking and trading become the essence. Despite the proliferation of senior professional titles and academic qualifications, the absolute value of academic ideological level is declining. ——& gt； & gt& gt

Humanistic spirit: a "culture-based country" with poor ideas

● Humanistic culture is the identity card of a nation. A country without science and technology will collapse when it hits; Without humanity, you will destroy yourself.

—— Yang Shuzi, former president of Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Colleges and universities only use courses to teach knowledge and train skills, and cultural activities are only occasional embellishments. Without the influence of high culture and noble personality, it is difficult for the school to make any positive voice to the outside world. Usually only care about eating and drinking, the opposite sex, making money, stars, what major is the hottest, how to establish contacts and other topics. And there are few thoughts and interesting considerations. ——& gt； & gt& gt

Students are increasingly regarded as "sources of income", while teachers are reduced to "wage earners". Being eager for quick success and instant benefit and lacking humanistic care make universities lose their lofty status as "spiritual homes" and "ideal lighthouses". ——& gt； & gt& gt

Free spirit: There is no Cai Yuanpei in the world.

The ideas expressed by university teachers are not only bound by any religion or political party, but also influenced by any famous scholars. —— Cai Yuanpei

● Who is the president of China University today? Economist! The reform of Peking University is actually led by an economist. And economists are the dumbest people in China. Yao Guohua

Cai Yuanpei put forward three basic principles of modern universities in China: first, universities should be independent; Second, universities should have freedom of thought and academic freedom; Third, the academic and ideological freedom of a university needs a corresponding free social and political environment. ——& gt； & gt& gt

In China University, there are 1 presidents and secretaries, and as many as 10 vice presidents and deputy secretaries. The school has more than 30-40 permanent offices, departments and rooms. "The corridor of school-level cadres, the auditorium of department-level cadres, and the playground of department-level cadres". Bureaucrats presided over the reduction of funds and the allocation of places to go abroad. They are addicted to welcoming, housing allocation and welfare treatment, and have no intention to consider the direction of running a school, discipline construction and opportunity competition. ——& gt； & gt& gt

The official standard with China's characteristics causes personal attachment, which makes intellectuals lose their independent thoughts and judgments, their brains and their souls. ——& gt； & gt& gt

Educational idea: impetuous and utilitarian employment education

● Universities in China have completely become pre-job training institutions for wage earners. -Yao Guohua >>& gt

Starting from middle school, "learning mathematics, physics and chemistry well is not afraid to travel all over the world", but when choosing a university major, it is more oriented to "whether it is a good job". Young students in university campuses no longer consider the cultivation of knowledge and the perfection of personality, but learn foreign languages, computers and a professional technology well, and make the most practical plans for the most realistic problems such as going abroad and employment in the future. "What's the use of learning this!" Become the mantra of college students in the new era. ——& gt； & gt& gt

Related: Mental loss behind college students' annual consumption exceeding 10,000 yuan.

The Ministry of Education calls college students "ordinary workers"

Where can I find the spirit of China University?

[Let me say something]

The university study style of an era essentially reflects the cultural spirit of an era. Looking at China and foreign countries, the breath of "inclusiveness and academic freedom" has become the core content of "university spirit" in the modern sense. ...

Top-down Inheritance: China's Traditional Education Spirit

● Imperial College and Guo Zi School are mostly attached to the political power system, making it difficult to form an independent academic tradition. & gt& gt& gt

China's ancient university idea changed from Confucius' "teaching without class" to "university", and "the way of university lies in virtue, in new people and in perfection". The spirit of a university lies in carrying forward the goodness of human nature, cultivating a sound personality, cultivating oneself, promoting others, changing customs and improving social atmosphere. The responsibility of universities lies in the inheritance of human civilization and culture, as well as in the inheritance of morality. ——& gt； & gt& gt

Huang Zongxi, a thinker in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, believed that schools should not only be institutions for cultivating talents, but also institutions for discussing political affairs, exposing officials, guiding public opinion and representing public opinion, so as to achieve the purpose of educating the world and purifying customs. ——& gt； & gt& gt

Rational thinking: the spirit of western universities

● The rise of Italy is Bologna, the rise of France is Paris University, the rise of Britain is Cambridge and Oxford, and the rise of the United States is Harvard. /kloc-when the Germans were about to rise in the 0 th and 9 th centuries, the University of Berlin appeared. University spirit+urban movement = western civilization. & gt& gt& gt

● Universities should implement general education instead of vocational education. -Humboldt, the father of modern education

The elites of western society believe that this society has an abstract truth, a rule, a law, and an order that transcends individual will and material appearance. The spirit left by Greek rational thinking is the spirit of western universities. ——& gt； & gt& gt

At the beginning of this century, the philosopher William? James said: The real Harvard is an "invisible, inner and spiritual Harvard", and it is "free thinking" and "creative thinking". It devotes itself to "liberal arts education" with a long-term vision beyond practicality, arouses curiosity about new ideas and new things, and encourages free exploration, free examination and free creation, thus laying its reputation and deep foundation. ——& gt； & gt& gt

University spirit in Cai Yuanpei's era

● The university spirit written by Liang Qichao for Tsinghua: self-improvement, kindness and morality.

● Mr. Cai Yuanpei put forward "holding the purpose", "honing virtue" and "loving teachers and friends", which laid the spirit of "inclusiveness and freedom of thought" in Peking University.

● The first essence of the university spirit defined by Chen Yinque: independent spirit and free thought.

In Cai Yuanpei's era, the significance of Peking University was firstly to realize multicultural integration from different academic backgrounds and different ideological beliefs, and secondly to pay attention to cultural transformation in social change. Intellectuals are keen on cultural research, the tradition of political standard is suppressed, students try to sublimate their ideals with new culture, and the concept of promotion and wealth is suppressed. ——& gt； & gt& gt

Cai Yuanpei believes that universities are not institutions that sell graduates or instill fixed knowledge, but institutions that study academic theories. ——& gt； & gt& gt

University spirit in wartime: Whampoa Military Academy, Yan 'an Kangda and National Southwest United University.

● Personality stipulated in the motto of National Southwest Associated University: fortitude and perseverance.

● Whampoa Military Academy defined by Sun Yat-sen: A revolutionary army should be formed based on the students of the school.

● Mao Zedong's topic for Northern Shaanxi College: To train a large number of people who are the vanguard of the revolution. These people have political foresight, and they are full of struggle and sacrifice.

Whampoa Military Academy and Yan 'an Kang are mostly political universities with ideology as the core, but they have effectively organized a large number of young people, achieved a high degree of ideological integration and formed a unified political party. However, this kind of "quasi-university" lost its independence because of the complete unity of politics, culture and academic ideology. ——& gt； & gt& gt

In the hard years of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, in the southwest hinterland of China, the world-famous The National SouthWest Associated University was born and became a typical camp of free intellectuals. This kind of university model with the relative separation of politics and religion has reserved an independent cultural space outside the Kuomintang party education. ——& gt； & gt& gt

Ten years' lessons: pragmatism's erosion of university spirit

● The biggest mistake in the ten years of reform and opening up is the mistake in education. -Deng Xiaoping >>& gt

Since the reform and opening up, China scientists have not made any innovations, new concepts, new theories and new methods in any field, and none of them are named after China people. & gt& gt& gt

/kloc-for 0/0 years, the status of cultural and educational undertakings as a vassal of economic development has not fundamentally changed. Although science is taken out of culture alone and brought into the category of productive forces together with technology, it is only a low-level technical means that science is separated from the matrix of culture and education. True scientific spirit and independent scientific exploration have no place in China. ——& gt； & gt& gt

Building a world-class university, can the "dream" "shine into reality"?

[Let me say something]

Today, there are countless people shouting that China should build a world-class university. People who shout this slogan are all people with brain problems. They don't know what a university is, let alone what a world-class university is. & gt& gt& gt

China University urgently needs real academic masters and humanistic ideas.

Masters do not fall from the sky, but grow up from the needs of reality, the influence of culture and the inner efforts. The responsibility of the government and society is to protect the just academic atmosphere from the outside, not to interfere with it. University professors should first be real intellectuals, who can immerse themselves in academics and ideas and regard them as fun and ideal people. ——& gt； & gt& gt

Without university autonomy, there would be no academic freedom?

Universities should be autonomous, and there is no fundamental contradiction between the national nature of universities and autonomy. Contemporary universities in China don't even have the most basic foundation of modern universities: university independence. True university autonomy is the first step to establish a modern university system in China, and it is also the most crucial step. ——& gt； & gt& gt

China University trains social elites?

The mission of China University is to build an elite in China, not to train college students in China to be in suits and ties and speak English. This type often has a sense of cultural inferiority and is mostly a pseudo-elite. A true China elite must first have cultural self-confidence, which fundamentally comes from full self-confidence in Chinese civilization. ——& gt； & gt& gt

Soul of University: Collision and Exchange of Ideas?

A university is actually as simple as several elements: a group of eager young students, a group of scholars who really enjoy learning and thinking, libraries and information tools (especially the Internet). Young people and scholars have reading, communication, discussion, mutual stimulation, collision and integration, which constitute the soul of the university. ——& gt； & gt& gt

Reform: the comprehensive reconstruction of modern universities?

At present, universities must operate in an open and transparent way, so as to remove silt and cut tumors, reorganize their structures, rectify their internal management, and run schools in an open and mobile way. The core is to reflect on our educational philosophy from the beginning. University is the soul of a country and a nation, and the disease of university is also a disease of a nation. Universities are not established, and culture and education are not prosperous; If culture and education are not prosperous, how can the country stand on its feet? ——& gt； & gt& gt

QQ survey

What do you think of the statement that Tsinghua Peking University is second-rate compared with Hong Kong universities?

Totally disagree.

Partial recognition

Complete identity

Don't care about it

Character: Interpreter of university spirit.

There is no Cai Yuanpei in the world.

Cai Yuanpei believes that a university is a place for cultivating personality, the cradle of humanistic spirit and the support of reason and conscience, but it is not a moral model or a religious place. Great scholars also study profound knowledge. In order to include grand ceremonies and attract many schools to learn. & gt& gt& gt

Liang Shuming and Old Peking University

At that time, Cai Yuanpei helped a 25-year-old young man with no education to the podium of Peking University to teach Indian philosophy. The young man later became a master of oriental culture. This is Liang Shuming. & gt& gt& gt

Mei Yiqi: Laying the foundation stone for Tsinghua University.

Under his leadership, Tsinghua was able to jump from a well-known school with no academic status to one of the top universities in China in ten years. & gt& gt& gt

Yang Shuzi: Set off a cultural storm.

Yang Shuzi: Without first-class liberal arts, there would be no first-class science; Without first-class science, there is no first-class engineering. College students must first learn to be human, then learn to think, and finally learn knowledge and skills. A country without science and technology will collapse when it hits; Without humanity, you will destroy yourself. & gt& gt& gt

Cultural Foundation and University Reconstruction

Mr. Yao Guohua said bitterly: "The university has become a tool of real life, and the whole intellectual group has become a group of senior street people who make a living from it." & gt& gt& gt

QQ Noun: What is a university?

University: 1854, President of Catholic University of Dublin, John? Henry. John henry newman: A university is a hall where students from all over the world come to seek all kinds of knowledge.

1859, opening remarks of the course of the University of Michigan, USA: No institution deserves to be called a university unless it can provide a free and broad world for students who want to study any subject and let them enjoy it.

At the beginning of modernization, the dominant thought in the west was that a university should be an institution to cultivate sentiment, with the aim of cultivating young gentlemen with considerable knowledge.

Einstein: The goal of a school should always be that young people leave school as a harmonious person, not as an expert.

Mei Yiqi, former president of Tsinghua University: A great scholar is not an architecture, but a master.

Kim, former president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong: In college, students actually study four things. First, learn how to read: learn to learn; ; The second is to learn to do things: learn to do; ; The third is to learn how to get along with others: learn to be together; ; Finally, learn how to be a man: learn to be a man.

Speech? Online review

Nowadays, professors are no longer symbols of academic titles and knowledge, but a level of salary, a qualification to allocate housing, and free medical treatment.

Xie Yong

2 1 century To become the century of China people, China must have dozens of world-class universities.

-Professor Jin of the Chinese University of Hong Kong

I believe that students can get a real education in Hong Kong. Universities in mainland China are still in a pre-modern state as a whole.

—— Professor Yang Dongping of Beijing Institute of Technology

Professors are the soul of a university, and the quality of university study style depends entirely on the choice of professors. If many professors in universities regard studying knowledge as their lifelong career and educating knowledge as their supreme duty, they will naturally develop a good style of study and constantly cultivate knowledgeable people.

-Zhu Kezhen

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