When Ye Feng and the others left the principal's building, the area they were in belonged to the teachers' office area, and most of the people on the road were teachers. Although the principal has 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. It was just a joke, so I didn't care. After all, between lovers, the man sometimes asks the woman to call him daddy, right? These teachers just think that young people nowadays are playing really wildly. Shouldn’t they be shouting this in their rooms when they go home! When will it be opened to public places in the university?
Ye Feng was really thinking about it, and explained as he walked slowly:
“A university, whose scientific name is an ordinary institution of higher learning, is a cultural institution with unique functions. It is an institution of higher learning that inherits, researches, integrates and innovates advanced academics that is both interrelated and independent of the economic and political institutions of society.
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 whose object is pure knowledge. Purely academic research activities are the inner basis for the lonely and free existence of universities. Accordingly, universities should have a spiritual aristocratic temperament and a strong pursuit of pure academics, regardless of various practical needs such as social economy and occupation.
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.
The educator Newman believes that university education should provide universal knowledge (truth with common meaning) and complete knowledge, rather than narrow professional knowledge. The knowledge he refers to includes both concrete scientific truths and abstract and scientificized philosophical knowledge.
Many people think that schools are for finding jobs, but this is not the case.
The meaning of the university itself is that it first teaches students the ability to think and learn. 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 profound knowledge." Academic research requires meditation. Academics should not be done for the sake of academics, and academics should not be done 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 not many idealistic people. When many people believe that universities should be integrated with society, perhaps we can think about whether we need young people with egoistic realism or young people with idealistic temperament. Since the world belongs to young people, why should they be like some middle-aged and elderly people who are sophisticated in the world? If we are sophisticated from the beginning, society will just cycle.
The significance of college life to life is firstly reflected as an important preparation stage for college students to become a person welcomed by society. This stage only lasts for four or five years. To make this preparation adequate, it must be well planned. 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 this preparation may fail. Seriously inadequate. Cutting corners in preparation will definitely cause you to be repeatedly frustrated after entering the social workplace, because you are fighting an unprepared battle, and accepting the punishment of failure is naturally inevitable.
In a sense, college 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: the ability to think and the power of will. The criterion for judging whether a university education is necessary is whether one has acquired this power, or in other words, whether he has acquired this ability. The most unique function of the university is to develop the thinking ability of the educated through education and counseling. It enables young people to become good at thinking and broad-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. In this regard, 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," said Professor Packard, "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, other things being equal, college students will have certain advantages over people with lower education levels. In fact, almost no college student's later success is directly due to school education in a strict sense, but often mainly relies on his ideological 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 make you, the wrong choice can break you.
And college is exactly one of the right choices you can make. "
When Ye Feng finished explaining, several circles of teachers were already surrounding him. At first, when they saw Ye Feng talking about what a university is, they thought it was just rhetoric, but as they listened, they were unknowingly attracted and slowly followed him 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."
