Educator Hu Shi was the president of Peking University from September 1945 to February 1948. This article is Mr. Hu Shi's speech at the graduation ceremony in Peking University on June 27th, 1932. It was a time of bloodshed, and he was the dean of Peking University College of Literature. Hu Shi said wryly that these words "may not be life-saving hair, but may be self-defense tips"!
In Hu Shi's view, college graduates will encounter a series of problems after entering the society, the most serious of which is to abandon the ideals and pursuits of their student days. He analyzed:
When young people come into contact with the cold society for the first time, it is easy to feel that their ideals are too far away from reality and are easy to be pessimistic and disappointed. The ideal of life, the enthusiasm for transformation and the courage to struggle that have been cherished for many years seem to be the same at this time. In that kind of intense social fire, a small individual often melts after a long period of baking, and a lofty ideal is quickly disillusioned.
Come with the dream of transforming society, often abandon armor and drag it away, or be captured by evil forces. When you are in that prisoner's prison, it seems that all the idealism of that youth has become a dream of self-error! From then on, you are willing to give up the pursuit of ideal life and be a docile subject in a ready-made society.