The Learning spirit we need to learn from Harvard

4 o'clock in the morning the Harvard University Library was brightly lit and packed. Harvard is a symbol of what kind of people have the potential to play? The Will of man, the talent of man, the ideal of man, why can it be cashed at Harvard? At Harvard's student restaurant, it's hard to hear voices, and each student sits down with a pizza coke and often reads or notes while eating. I have never seen a student who eats and does not read, and has never seen a student who eats and chats while eating. Feeling Harvard, the restaurant is just a library for eating, and an alternative library outside of Harvard's authentic 100 libraries. Harvard Hospital, the same quiet, no matter how many people in the waiting for no one to speak, no one is not reading or recording. The hospital is still an extension of the library. As a result, Harvard's Nobel Prize-winning winner was 33. The Harvard-produced President of the United States has 7.

Harvard campus, do not see the Chinese clothes, do not see make-up, but also dangling, only hurried footsteps, solid writing down the chapter of life. Harvard is not a myth, Harvard is just a testament to the people's will, spirit, ambition, ideals.

Sheijuan, a producer of CCTV's world-famous university, has taken a film crew to Harvard University to interview. "When we went to Harvard, it was 2 o'clock in the evening, and we were surprised that the whole campus was brightly lit and it was a city that never sleeps," she exclaimed. In the restaurant, in the library, there are many students reading in the classroom. The strong learning atmosphere suddenly infected us. At Harvard, students ' study is not divided into day and night. At that time, I learned that in the United States, at Harvard, such a prestigious school, the pressure of students is very big. At Harvard, you can see people sleeping everywhere, even in the cafeteria on the bench also someone is asleep. The people who come and eat next to each other don't feel strange. Because they know that the people who fall asleep are just too tired. At Harvard, what we see most is that students are munching on bread while they are reading with ecstasy.

In the Harvard interview, the deepest feeling is that Harvard students learn too hard, but they obviously also enjoy. What makes a Harvard student anguish? My experience is that they have a strong interest in the field of study. There is a sense of mission that the Harvard students are burning in their hearts to assume important responsibilities in the future. From these students, you can feel that the energy of their lives has been stimulated here.

Sheijuan said that a university girl studying at Harvard told me that Harvard undergraduates should take at least 4 courses per semester, 8 courses a year, 32 courses in 4 years and pass the exam to graduate. In general, the school requires undergraduates to complete the core curriculum in the first two years of their schooling, and the third year begins the study of major courses. Only the smartest gifted students can finish the 32 courses in two or three years, the average student light up to 4 courses is already busy dizzy brain, because in class, professors speak fast, no matter you listen to understand, after class left a lot of reading material, you can not finish the homework.

The North University girl said, I am here for one weeks reading is my reading volume in Peking University, and, at Harvard, the amount of homework requirements are very large, she said, we will spend a lot of time after class reading, preview case. Each class needs to do a lot of preparation in advance, before class ready, in class to communicate with others in the classroom, contribute your personal thoughts, to learn together with you, otherwise, you are unable to integrate into the classroom teaching, when each student has invested time carefully prepared, can quickly promote the course of class discussion, If you don't read so many books before, you won't be able to participate in the class discussion.

Sheijuan says Harvard students ' learning pressure also comes from the school's elimination mechanism. Harvard average every year about 20% of students because of failing to pass the exam or to quit or drop out of credit, and the elimination of 20% of the student's evaluation is not the end of the semester to complete, each class to record the performance, the average total of 50%, which requires students to evenly force, not relax.

At Harvard not only students are stressed, but teachers are as stressful. In the classroom at Harvard, the teacher was asked to speak something new. Every year the teacher teaches the content to keep abreast of the development of cutting-edge science and change. Therefore, Harvard teachers must be in the forefront of scientific research positions. Harvard believes that professors should first be academics, able to enjoy the fun of challenges and innovations, and be able to communicate with others persuasively.

When we interviewed Professor Shing, a tenured professor at Harvard University, he said: Chinese college students ' college life is too easy, we always say, Chinese children for the college entrance exam suffered, in fact, in some of the famous middle school in the United States, high school learning is also very bitter. When my children were in high school, they often learned about midnight. In the United States, with the growth of age, a little more task of learning. It's the hardest thing to do in college, and all the elite education must be hard-to-endure. China's children came to the university, but suddenly relaxed. They relaxed for 4 years, just the most diligent 4 years of American college students, the accumulation of life energy of gold 4 years. So, America's high-tech talent has always been the most in the world. ' I feel the same way, ' said Sheijuan, ' and we interviewed some of the country's key universities, but it was hard to get a sense of the learning atmosphere and the atmosphere of the study. Sheijuan very sad to say, to Harvard, you know the true elite is not genius, are to pay more efforts of the people.

Speaking of the comparison between Chinese and American college students, Sheijuan said, I have two feelings, one is that our students lack the spirit of hardship. Our parents and students think it is the most bitter before the college entrance examination. We speak of bided, many times is passive suffering, with utilitarian suffering. Rather than having a strong interest in them. Many college students after the entrance examination of the "Plank Bridge", began in the university campus comfortable waiting for graduation: class want to escape on the run, exam cramming. Even some parents have instilled in the child this thought, let the child think, all study is for the college entrance examination. So, the entrance examination is over, learning becomes no longer important. And in American universities, especially the elite of the university to pay the suffering is we can not imagine. At Harvard, conquering learning is everyone's slogan. To be strong, you need to learn more, and the Harvard program is more structured and tense. The aim is to help students improve their critical thinking ability and imagination, learn to discover and identify facts, persist in rigorous analysis of things, and be able to understand realistic and moral issues rationally and historically. In addition, the long-time overload of learning perseverance.

When American college students have a strong interest in accumulating energy, they step into the social work to prepare. As a Chinese college student, I have a long sigh of relief and feel that I can finally have a good rest. Chinese-style education allows students to "force" before the college entrance examination, in the reserve capacity of the stage not only did not accumulate energy, but a lot of consumption of this energy. Teachers of the United States, teacher Lui told our correspondent, Chinese students at the university stage by American students are far away in the back. It is also rooted in our basic education. American Primary School is a miser of knowledge, strictly restricting the number of children to get knowledge, one months only allow children to get a knowledge, children each to get a knowledge of the need to pay a lot of sweat and hard, in the process, the hands, thinking and sentiment is more important than the knowledge itself; children always have a desire for knowledge. And China's primary education is a greedy ghost, the knowledge as a free gold jewelry. Chinese educators do not know the relationship between knowledge and wisdom, and always let children get more and more knowledge directly. The wisdom of American Education lies in: First let the child to sentiment, to think, then obtains the knowledge, this time knowledge becomes the intelligence, because at the beginning, the knowledge is particularly simple, is easy to obtain the sentiment, the knowledge also easily becomes the wisdom. Wisdom is in fact the creativity we often say. There are three stages of learning: perceptual knowledge------------the highest stage of learning. American education allows children to go through three stages before they can get knowledge, and education in China is to allow children to gain knowledge through perceptual information, or to gain knowledge directly. American education for one months is equivalent to the amount of knowledge that China educates for a day. The difference is 29 days, this 29 days is the time of sentiment. American education has produced one more thing than Chinese education by making children feel: wisdom. American students produce one more thing than Chinese students: the ability to innovate. In high school, American schools cultivate the habit of self-study. Compared to China, the Chinese high School is the teacher cramming study, let the students accustomed to rely on. The gap between abilities and habits has allowed Chinese students and American students to choose different lifestyles and attitudes in their universities. Harvard students say that learning at Harvard is a big challenge for the will, with a little sleep and a sense of purgatory. But if the past, then the big difficulties will be able to overcome. And Chinese college students think, finally out of bondage, can want to do, do. So, most of the time spent on things other than learning. We suspended at the time when we should learn the most. This is doomed, our college students have been dumped farther and further.

Many scholars use the pyramid to describe the learning ability of Chinese and American students. The difference is that Chinese children's learning ability is the right pyramid, the older the more space to learn. And American students learn to be inverted pyramid, they learn is the ability to continue learning. The motivation of Chinese students, and the Jing Jinquan of the university's education system, make them feel that going to college is an incredibly relaxing thing. There is no force to urge them to learn from themselves to the outside, and thus, relaxation becomes a universal state, all in return for their first 12 years of deduction of leisure time, indulge in leisure. Chinese students are studying hard for 12 years, to university leisure. American students are "leisure" 12, the university began to study hard, desperate to learn. This is before the society, the most valuable stage of gold learning, these 4 years, they in the ability and emotional quotient of the improvement will have a qualitative leap.

At Harvard, professors often remind students to be good at managing their time. On the road of life, you stop, but someone is trying to hurry. Maybe when you stand, he is still chasing after you, but when you look back, you can not see his figure, because he has run to your front, need you to chase him. So, you can't stop, you have to keep moving forward, and constantly go beyond. Success and ease can not be combined, choose one, you must give up the other end. Do not work hard today, must suffer tomorrow. Harvard told its students: "The pain of learning is temporary, and the pain that has not been learned is lifelong." "And our college students are tasting the pain, and our nation is paying the price for it."

Harvard graduates have a tradition: to donate to Harvard. One-third of Harvard's money comes from donations. Many of the students ' parents are also Harvard alumni. A generation of Harvard people, into the top of the society and the wealth back to his alma mater, Harvard. Annual donations are an important part of Harvard's earnings.

Giving is often mutual. Is the first to give Harvard, or to give Harvard, this question or like chicken eggs or eggs and chickens as well. Or just let Harvard tell you.

Harvard has no high-rise buildings, only New England's red brick walls. Even the Nobel Prize winners have a humble parking space on campus. After all, Harvard is the most humble of 100 libraries, especially one like a library, or a person is a library. Harvard or Harvard people don't need any packaging.

Some say Benjamin Schwartz's, a Harvard-like Da Ru, still works in the office every morning at the age of 82 when he has had cancer surgery, even though he sometimes falls. And his office hanging coat of two racks, is actually with wire random winding.

A professor said to the students, you can only sleep two hours a day when you study my course. Students think, then, I study four courses, I have no sleep time, I have to daotie sleep time.

Harvard PhD students may chew the next big Book every 3 days, hundreds of pages each, and submit a reading report. Harvard is the bridge of Boston, former anthropology department director Zhang Guang in Harvard PhD that years, not on the bridge did not go to Boston. Harvard student or Harvard professor is not an honor at first, but a proof.

What kind of willpower can a person have, and how can one develop potential? Harvard is a symbol of the highest wisdom, the symbol of the highest institution of learning. The Will of man, the talent of man, the ideal of man, why can it be cashed at Harvard?

As a well-known institution, Harvard University has cultivated many celebrities, among them 33 Nobel laureates, 7 U.S. presidents and professional elites from all walks of life. What makes Harvard a cradle of the elite? What kind of spirit and idea did Harvard students accept? These questions attract thousands of people to explore the answers.

The 20 words on the wall of the Harvard library seem to have given the answer. A short number of words, provoking deep thought, give people enlightenment.

The Harvard Library's 20 training statements:

1. At this moment, you will dream, and now learn, and you will dream.
2. I leave uncultivated today, is precisely yesterday perishes the person to pray tomorrow.
3. Think it is too late, exactly is the earliest time.
4. Do not drag the matter of today until tomorrow.
5. Learning Pain is temporary, not learned the pain is life-time of the .
6. Learning this matter is not lack of time, but lack of effort.
7. Happiness may not rank, but success must be ranked.
8. Learning is not the whole of life. But since even the part of life, learning can not conquer, what can be done?
9. Please enjoy the pain that cannot be avoided.
10. Only before others, more diligent efforts, can taste the taste of success.
11. No one can casually succeed, it comes from thorough self-management and perseverance.
12. Time is ticking.
13. Now flow of saliva, will become tomorrow's tears.
14. The dog learns like a gentleman and plays like a man.
15. Don't go today, tomorrow will run.
16. The person who invests in the future is the one who is loyal to reality.
17. The level of education represents income.
18. After a day, I won't come again.
19. Even now, opponents are constantly flipping pages.
20. Without hardship, nothing is won.

Harvard teachers often give students such a caveat: If you want to enter the community, at any time in any situation can be handy and get the proper evaluation, then you at Harvard study, there is no sun time. A widely circulated maxim in Harvard is "busy Autumn harvest, study, study, and learn." ”

People's time and energy are limited, so use time to learn, instead of all the spare time to doze.

Some people say: "I just nap in my spare time, why do I make myself so nervous in my spare time?" Einstein once said: "The difference between people is in their spare time." "One of my friends at Harvard told me that just knowing how a young man spends his spare time can predict the future of this youth."

Harvard University has conducted such a follow-up survey, targeting a group of young people with similar intellectual, educational and environmental conditions. The survey found that 27% of people had no goals, 60% had vague goals, and 10% had clear but relatively short-term goals, while the remaining 3% had clear and long-term goals.

In the years to come, they are marching on their own journey of life. 25 years later, Harvard again followed the group of students. The result is this:

3% of people, in 25 years in a direction of unremitting efforts, almost all become successful people from all walks of life, including industry leaders and social elites, 10% of people, their short-term goals are continuously realized, become professionals in various fields, mostly living in the upper-middle of society, 60% of people, they live and work safely , but there are no special achievements, almost all living in the middle and lower levels of society, the remaining 27% of the people, their lives have no goals, too much, and often complaining about others, complaining about society, of course, also complain about themselves.

The most important thing is not to look at the vague things in the distance, but to do something clear at hand.

The Learning spirit we need to learn from Harvard