(Zt) A letter from Professor Zhu Qingsheng from Peking University: The University is a scientific guarantee.

 

This letter is from1949a (a letter from Professor Peking University to students).

Liu Ping, Liu zizhen, and other students:

You have gradually understood the significance of the University. It is not only a school for cultivating children, but also a place for training skills for future generations. It is not only an organization for instructors to teach human principles and social ideals, but also a scientific guarantee.

The so-called scientific guarantee refers to the process of self-growth, self-development, self-testing, and self-criticism of human reason in a system such as a university based on the logic of reason. Any individual can only promote and delay the process of this system because of his or her talents, energy, and concentration, but it cannot affect the internal structure of the University, the adjustment of the discipline aims to make the internal structure more reasonable; any political system and economic conditions can only limit and define the size of the University, the group ownership of teachers, the configuration of students, and the orientation of practical subjects, but cannot affect the fundamental nature of the University. The university itself has no personality, because it uses the present to have all the research capabilities to study all the available research, including the universe and life. This is science.

Why does science play a critical role without being influenced by an individual, political, or economic environment? Or what does it ensure itself? Only one point is the rational method rooted in people. This method does not depend on whether people should choose, choose, or evolve it. The method is the emergence of science, the method is the rational display, people have no choice. In the structure of the University, every participant is a brainworker without me. In the autumn of the 1949th century, following the methods, the individual's thinking and scientific operation jointly create a rational human being. Reason and science have been shared by humans since ancient times, especially since their own universities, or are gradually discovered and constructed according to their rational nature. Therefore, they are the manifestation of human nature, no individual or environment can change human nature. At most, it only affects the extent and beauty of its presentation.

Human nature is not all rational, and it also needs to be taught by others. The pursuit of faith has led to the establishment of Buddhist and religious schools, the cultivation of sensibility, the establishment of art schools, the establishment of Party and mission schools for the assurance of political power, and the development of society, A Vocational and Technical College has been established. From basic elementary education to secondary professional technical training, to study of higher technology, to training of senior management leaders, to the establishment of the National Engineering and Technology Institute, countries and groups are competing to invest in the national economy and livelihood. Because academics are related to the future property and social status of individuals, students focus on their studies and, according to their own conditions and social needs, calculate the optimal path with the assistance of the parent. This is a natural trend, which is beyond review. The University has also made great efforts to cooperate with the trend, making it easy to get involved.

However, when you enter the university, you will find that the significance of the university is not just vocational training, and even many courses have nothing to do with the cultivation of basic skills. The university requires its students, new participants in the rational and scientific systems, to do a lot of "useless" learning. At this moment, we started the first test of your mind. You are a hard-working person-conscious intellectuals/scholars, a hard-working person-a persistent owner of power and money, or a third conscious scholar who occupies power and money. The answer is simple on the surface, but in fact, answering and implementing an answer is a long-term hardship to the mind. I hope you will become a complete winner. As a university teacher, I would like to draw your attention that even if you will not work in the university to promote and maintain the development of human reason, even if you do something that hinders or damages your rationality due to your career or career needs (such as engaging in political activities and business battles) in the future ), it does not mean that you can despise the training of basic scientific methods during university, so that you can ignore the research on human nature rather than the specific technical operation courses, because, human nature requires self-development.

As a student, two preparations are made at the university stage:
First,Prepare to be a high level person. Because you have used your previous efforts to prove that you are a good Member of the crowd, many people expect you to bring us benefits. The public "selects" you to come to the university for further study, because they think that the university can provide the "Higher Education" mark of education, education makes people noble.If the University trains students well to extract and use others for special purposes, there will be no more universities and only specialized training centers.Nor can a university become a church or artist workshop to strengthen your faith or develop your feelings (the European University was finally separated from the Church ). The university can only rely on science to grow you into a rational human elite with the help of methods, while absorbing the best of you to continue to consolidate the University's scientific camp.

Second,Prepare to be a strong person. Because you will expand your thinking, Master methods, and familiarize yourself with the methods in the cultivation of books, experiments, and internships under the guidance of professors and encouragement of students, you have a systematic understanding of a major. Of course, you can also learn how to continue to understand and master professional training. In this way, you can continuously grasp the progress of the Major, remain invincible in the competition. The specific situation of a teaching unit is constantly improving, and the goal will not change. In terms of majors, all the students who graduated are Ma zhuangbing.

There are limits to preparation, and some things are not taught by universities. For example, how do you overcome your colleagues' power in the future and how do you deal with the dark side of society with effective means. After teaching, you can also talk about it on paper, so that you can experience and grasp it in your life after graduation. The term is short and has a long life. Therefore, you must understand the nature of a university. You must listen to lectures, participate in seminars, join internships, and think positively from its expertise.There are several principles that should not be forgotten:
1. Open your mind. Prepare for the project and select various levels and courses.
2. Careful and careful: grasp the practical methods carefully (especially note that you should enter the field of the excellent professors and participate in seminars and scientific research projects; lectures are often not in-depth ).
3. Clear judgment: clearly understand the problem, collect as much research materials as possible on this issue, compare, analyze, and think, and make independent judgments.
4. Humble: do not think that you have mastered the truth once you discover the shortcomings of others' knowledge. Methods are always self-updating, materials are increasing daily, and disciplines are self-governing. There is no genius in science.

Finally, you will think that I am not an example of my life. As a teacher, I do not do what I do, so as to realize the real value of my individual in society. Instead, I am very obviously slow in power and money, and avoid it intentionally. I would like to explain to you that this is my current position decision. Teaching in a university is the operator of scientific operation. Working with colleagues and students, we follow scientific methods from a professional perspective to work for the university activity, a rational guarantee of human beings. The social status is irrelevant to the degree of my thoughts. The amount of income is irrelevant to the value of my academic work. Today, I am here, and my duty has nothing to do with the criteria of a successful person in society. Maybe one day I will leave, because I am still on this seat, and because of the nature of the University as a guarantee of science, you will receive such a letter. This letter does not come from my opinion for a while, but from the rational requirements of university duties.