Even better, I am also a lecturer and student.

Yan Caihong, an ordinary teacher at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, died of lung cancer in March 12. Within three days of his death, he published more than a thousand mourning articles on the BBS of Shanghai Jiao Tong University campus. The students also raised funds to publish commemorative collections for him.

The teacher's death caused controversy. He was 57 years old, and his teaching skills and ethics were widely praised. because he did not have a thesis, he was only a lecturer when he died.

All people familiar with him said that his most touching point is the indifference of fame and fortune, and he has never worried about his title. Some people also think that, in any case, he is a "Tragedy", and his words and deeds appear so "out of date" on campus where the impetuous wind prevails ".

If you look at him from a secular perspective, he can't be regarded as a success; but in the balance of life's value, his weight is very heavy ......

Why can't I comment on professors even if books are taught?

At Shanghai Jiao Tong University Electronic Information and Electronic Engineering College, Yan Caihong's teaching level is well known. His circuit class ranks first in the school with a rare full score in Students' Online evaluation activities. Many students call him "the best teacher I have ever met ". After his death, many teachers admitted: "My teaching is far worse than Jack ."

His class has reached this level: a cup of tea, a piece of chalk, without textbooks and teaching reference books, he has been familiar with his chest, examples are coming, the lectures are clear and self-contained. In addition to the handsome blackboard writing and the loud voice, his circuit class is hailed as "magic power". It is almost full of games and has no seats.

"His class is full of passion and exciting from start to end. It is like a wonderful movie," said the student in the campus BBS speech ." "The boring words in books are like living in his mouth. The obscure formulas and theorems have become very simple and clear after his explanation ."

"I don't know if there will be people learning circuits in heaven? If there is, they are really lucky ." Why can't even an associate professor be rated as a teacher that is very popular with students? The main reason is that he does not have a thesis. According to the current assessment system of colleges and universities, teachers' titles mainly refer to the number of scientific research papers, while Yan Caihong has hardly published a "decent" academic article.

A senior manager of Shanghai Jiao Tong University explained: in a middle school, such a teacher can be rated as a special-level teacher. However, a university requires both teaching and scientific research, and teachers must both disseminate knowledge and innovate knowledge. In this way, the macro is not comprehensive.

However, it has been pointed out that under the banner of building a "Scientific Research University", many colleges have actually moved to another extreme-focusing on scientific research and light teaching. Not long ago, a 25-Year-Old Guangxi teacher was named as a professor only for "excellent academic achievements", but he was not yet a year old. However, a teacher like Yan Caihong can teach books well, but cannot conduct scientific research, and has no hope of evaluating titles.

Under the baton focusing on scientific research, to promote titles, many university teachers have to spend a lot of energy on papers and subjects without having to take into account classroom teaching. The direct consequence is the decline in the quality of teaching. The higher their titles, the farther away from the podium. It is difficult to find a famous professor on the podium, which is no longer an individual phenomenon in the university.

How can it be an alternative solution for instructors?

A student wrote on the BBS: "I can't help but ask: What is a real good teacher? We often find that some professors only treat teaching as a sideline and do not have enough seriousness or are too difficult to understand, so the students are at a loss ."

In a university, whether a teacher's teaching task is completed depends on the number of lessons. Few people are concerned about the teaching effect. Many teachers barely took to the podium to complete the teaching work, did not carefully prepare lessons, did not communicate with students, they did not think about how to achieve the best teaching effect, but how to "finish" at least ".

Yan Caihong's performance is in stark contrast to this. The students clearly remember the details of the last stage of his life --

"I went to the exam during the holidays. I got the results yesterday and had a late stage of lung cancer. This is my last lesson ." In the first class after the "11" holiday last year, Yan Caihong announced to the students that they had a calm tone and started talking as usual. He never dragged on to the classroom, but didn't seem to hear the bell of the class that day. He continued to talk about it. He seemed to want to tell all his knowledge to his students. When I finally had to put down the chalk in my hand, my eyes showed deep helplessness and grief.

He appeared on the podium a week later. "Because the new teacher has not arrived, I will continue to finish the first chapter and come to an end ." Many students listened to the lesson with tears. "If teaching is an art, you are the art that I cannot complete. Sorry !" In the next class, he apologized to the students, and the students applauded for a long time.

After being hospitalized, Yan Caihong still thinks about his students. In the ward, he also gave a drawing lecture to the students who visited him. Even if the cancer cells spread and there was a lot of water in the skull, he said to his wife, "Help me to set up a big classroom for the school and call the students. You bring me a cup of water. I want to take another lesson if I can't speak ." However, this wish cannot be fulfilled ......

Almost everyone familiar with Edison believes that he has not published a paper because he has devoted all his thoughts to teaching. Answering questions and tutoring for students occupies a lot of his spare time. For the convenience of receiving students, he made a loan to buy a new house next to the campus, and specially built a room with a small blackboard to serve as a "Q & A room ".

The reporter repeatedly heard students say that there are too few such teachers in the university. It is the duty of the teacher to solve the problem of preaching and teaching. Now, people who are loyal to their duties have become an alternative.

Is he in the wrong corner of the world?

Does Yan Caihong have the ability to write scientific research papers? There are different opinions on this issue.

Some people say that he does not have a thesis because he has been teaching for a long time and has been separated from scientific research. Others say that he is brilliant and knowledgeable, And He Published academic articles in domestic journals.

At Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the standard for an associate professor's evaluation is to publish two Journal Papers, edit a textbook, or publish three teaching and research papers. The author believes that this requirement is not unattainable, because even if he does not write a thesis, he can give a lecture so well that the students can help to record the audio and find someone to sort it out. It is also very easy to produce a textbook. However, he did not do this, making it hard for many people to understand.

Min Caihong also asked him about his issue during his lifetime. His answer is that academic papers must be carefully published and breakthrough ideas in a certain field can be obtained, he could not bear to think about the practice of piecing together the papers for the title.

Some people disagree with this idea: Today, thousands of college teachers are conducting a lot of hard research in various fields, and the published results cannot be counted, although not all of them are "major discoveries ", it cannot be said that there is no value. If they all require that they be awarded the Nobel Prize, they will not only be too arrogant but not in line with the laws of scientific research.

Others say that original scientific research is very difficult, and many scientific research achievements have to go through time to prove their value. Many scientific masters in the world are willing to be poor and lonely, and "Ten Years of grinding a sword", but the current domestic academic world is worrying about the impetuous trend, chasing fame and profit, there are a lot of people who "achieve results, the amount of gold contained in many scientific research results is actually very low. In this situation, Yan Caihong is willing not to accept titles and treatment, nor to create "academic waste", which is very valuable.

Who can understand Caihong?

"At the door, I saw a gentleman who was not very tall. He was a little lucky, a pair of big glasses and messy hair ." This is the first impression of a student on talent.

During the interview, the reporter heard a lot of interesting things about Yan Caihong. Once he went to the streets with his wife, and in the furniture store, he saw the shopkeeper reading the younger daughter of junior high school with a difficult question on the front, so he was annoyed by the failure of mathematics. He immediately sat down to help the children explain, leaving contact information. Later, the child came to the door, and he was just two years old. He is tutoring a student at a school of zhiqing children. It takes seven years to complete the course ...... There are countless questions and tutorials such as this, but he never gets them.

Sometimes when he got home from school, he looked at his face, lying on the sofa with his eyes closed, and his right hand still stroked the circuit diagram in the air. A student even suspected: "Is this teacher having a meal and a rest? Is there a diode in his mind ?"

He has invested so much in teaching work that he has "influenced" his title. However, no one has ever seen him suffer from poverty alleviation. He never concealed his pride in his teaching, and often told his wife and friends how wonderful he was. He loves meat and often joked: "The students are satisfied with my class, which is better than pig ."

Some people praise Yan Caihong for his "old gentleman's Wind", while others say that he is "stupid", while Yan Caihong said at the last moment of his life: "as a lecturer, I have a clear conscience ." (End)