Chapter 207 University
When Ye Feng and the others left the principal's building, the area they were in belonged to the teacher's office area, and most of the people on the road were teachers. Although the principal had proposed to have specialized staff lead a tour of the campus.
But at that time, Ye Feng's clone warned: "Principal Zhang, now I am a student of Kyoto University, not a king."
Principal Zhang is not stupid. He understands that Ye Feng wants to experience the life atmosphere of the university as a student, not to mention how he dares to disobey Wang's will, so he gives up.
Linglong asked: "Dad, what do you mean university is?" This voice did attract some sideways glances from teachers passing by. However, those teachers saw that Ye Feng and the others were almost the same age as students, so they thought it was just a fight between peers.
They were just joking, so they didn’t pay attention. After all, between lovers, the man sometimes asks the woman to call him daddy, right? These teachers just thought that young people nowadays are playing so wildly that they shouldn’t be allowed to go home to their rooms.
Are you shouting? When did it open to public places in the university?
Ye Feng was really thinking about it, and explained while walking slowly:
"A university, whose scientific name is a general institution of higher learning, is a cultural institution with unique functions. It is an institution of higher learning that is interrelated with and independent of the economic and political institutions of society, and is an institution of higher learning that inherits, researches, integrates and innovates advanced academics.
It is not only the product of the development of human culture to a certain stage, but also gradually formed a unique university culture based on long-term school running practice, through historical accumulation, its own efforts and the influence of the external environment.
The university has a history of thousands of years from its birth to the present. Going back to its birth, it was mainly developed from other regions and countries, and then gradually evolved after being spread to China. However, no matter which era the university
They are all creative inheritances from previous universities rather than negations.
Humboldt defined a university as an academic research institution with pure knowledge as its object. Pure academic research activities are the inner basis of the lonely and free existence of the university. Accordingly, the university should have a spiritual aristocratic temperament and a commitment to pure academics.
Strong pursuit without considering various practical needs such as social economy and career.
The famous educator Flexner said: I have always advocated that universities maintain contact with the real world while continuing to remain unaccountable. Industry has developed ways to utilize pure scientific research, so it does not require the practicality of universities. If social science
To develop as sciences, they must be divorced from business practices, political practices, and reforms of one kind or another.
Educator Newman believes that university education should provide universal knowledge (truths of a general sense) and complete knowledge, rather than narrow professional knowledge. The knowledge he refers to includes both concrete scientific truths and abstracted knowledge.
Scientific philosophical knowledge.
Many people think that schools are for finding jobs, but this is not the case.
The significance of the university itself, first of all, is to teach students the ability to think and learn. And the university is not only a place for teaching, but also a place for academic research. Cai Yuanpei said: "A great scholar is also a person who studies advanced knowledge.
"Academic research requires meditation. You should not do academics for the sake of academics, and you should not do academics for the sake of profit. Universities should still retain some of the characteristics of ivory towers and the backbone of universities, because there are many utilitarian and realistic people in the world, but idealistic people.
Not much. When many people think that universities should be integrated with society, you might want to think about whether we need young people with egoistic realism or young people with idealistic temperament. Since the world will belong to young people, why do we need them?
What about some middle-aged and elderly people who are sophisticated in the world? If they are sophisticated in the world from the beginning, society will just cycle.
The significance of college life to life is first reflected in the fact that it is an important preparation stage for college students to become a person welcomed by society. This stage only lasts four or five years. To make this preparation sufficient, one must be rich.
In terms of planning, if there is no plan, or the execution of the plan is not strong enough, and there is a lack of specific and quantitative requirements, then the preparation may be seriously inadequate. And cutting corners in the preparation work will definitely cause you to be repeatedly frustrated after entering the social workplace.
, because you are fighting an unprepared battle, there is a certain inevitability in accepting the punishment of failure.
In a sense, university education means an investment, an investment in personal power. Young people gain a kind of life power from this investment - the power of knowledge creation. This power includes two aspects: thinking
The power of ability and will. The criterion for judging whether a university education is necessary is whether this power has been obtained, or whether this ability has been obtained. The most unique function of the university is to develop the educated people's ability through education and counseling.
Thinking ability, it enables young people to become good at thinking and open-minded, and at the same time know how to use their wisdom and knowledge to serve their life goals.
For young people, university education realizes the transformation from one self to another. From this point of view, Ruskin once made a famous comment: "Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know originally.
, but to teach people to do things they would not otherwise do." "To think that education is just learning knowledge," Professor Packard said, "is an extremely poor and unpromising idea. People need far more.
More than facts, such as courage, honesty, sense of honor, etc.
University is basically a training ground.
It tests a person's ability and teaches you how to think about problems. Of course, under other conditions being equal, college students will have certain advantages over people with lower education. In fact, almost no college student later
Strictly speaking, success is directly due to school education, but often mainly depends on his mental preparation after graduation.
In college, the best thing teachers teach students is how to learn. The moment you step out of the school walls, you stop using book knowledge that cannot fully satisfy you, and look for things that can truly satisfy you.
The most important decision in your life. The right choice can build you up, but the wrong choice can destroy you.
And college is exactly one of the right choices you can make."
When Ye Feng finished explaining, there were already several circles of teachers surrounding him. At first, they thought Ye Feng was talking about what a university is, but they thought it was just rhetoric, but when they listened, they were unknowingly attracted by it.
Attracted, I followed slowly, wanting to hear the end.
Jiang Yu smiled helplessly: "Lao Ye is Lao Ye. Even without the advantage of appearance, his knowledge will still make him the most eye-catching one."
Chapter completed!