What are the advantages and disadvantages of Tsinghua and Peking University?

Peking University is emancipated, active and capable of retreating. It likes to sit and talk, often thinking more and doing less, getting up early and getting up late. Tsinghua is rigorous and pragmatic, though he has less ideas and more methods than Peking University. If we can combine the "idea" of Peking University with the "method" of Tsinghua, it will be even worse.

Peking University has been focusing on arts and sciences, and is good at basic research. It can be said that it is the tradition of Peking University to emphasize learning rather than politics, morality rather than power, and learning rather than skills. Yuan Pei believes that learning and skills can be divided into two nouns, learning is theory and skills are application. Arts and sciences, specializing in science; Other subjects, partial application. A scholar can be a "university" and a scholar can only "wait for a special school".

Although he also said that he wanted to study and study, he actually looked down on applied disciplines. In Peking University, the school-running ideas of attaching importance to science over practical learning, science over technology, and basic research over applied research are deeply rooted.

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In the 1990s, at the height of the tide of university merger in China, it was suggested that Peking University and Tsinghua should merge, with complementary advantages and both arts and sciences. It is thought that this will form a super aircraft carrier in China's universities and be invincible.

However, this proposal was generally opposed by teachers and students of the two schools. Indeed, if Peking University and Tsinghua merge into one, they will not only lose the gold-lettered signboards of Peking University and Tsinghua, but also lose the intangible assets with incalculable value, and will erase the distinctive personalities and characteristics of the two universities, resulting in the negative effect of "one plus one is less than two".

The above contents refer to:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Tsinghua University

Baidu Encyclopedia-Peking University