A story about cultivating integrity and virtue
"Self-cultivation" originated from the Book of Changes. I ching? Blind? Haiku says: "Education is also a sacred job." I ching? Blind? Xiang Ci said, "Meng, a gentleman will reap the fruits of Xiu De." Yu is education. I ching? Meng Gua's educational idea of "cultivating righteousness", that is, he hoped that educators would pay attention to cultivating students' correct mind and behavior, influenced China as the oldest educational thought. Qianlong, Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, once wrote "cultivating benevolence, righteousness and virtue" as a plaque in his study. Yongzheng, Sejong of the Qing Dynasty, wrote a couplet saying: "Honesty-oriented, Ming-oriented" to educate the emperor to strengthen his self-cultivation and inherit the great unity. As a university, it not only produces ideas and knowledge, but also undertakes the sacred responsibility of cultivating citizens with moral conscience for society. British educator John? Henry. Newman pointed out in "The Ideal of University": "University is an advanced protection force for all knowledge and science, facts and principles, exploration and discovery, experiment and thinking ... neither infringing nor giving in to any party." Book of rites? The opening of "University" also said: "The way of a university is to be well-known and close to the people, and stop at perfection." In other words, the purpose of university education is to show everyone's inherent virtue, and then push others to others, so that everyone can get rid of filth and accept new life, thus tending to the highest state of perfection (purposeful). Therefore, the primary function of a university is to cultivate people's virtue and make them "people"; It is very important to cultivate moral education and honesty. "Right" represents the controlling power of the main aspects of the contradiction of value orientation of truth, goodness and beauty. Only by being correct can we determine the truth, goodness and beauty of things and make things stable and harmonious. Righteousness is the right way, which is the bright road of the world through the ages and represents the highest ideal of truth, goodness, beauty and harmony that human beings have long yearned for and pursued. It is a sacred and great achievement of the university to cultivate students' pure quality and guide them to stick to the right path. Righteousness is righteousness, and it is the noble spirit between heaven and earth. There are good and evil in people's hearts and high and low personalities, which are all the results of the struggle between good and evil in their hearts. "Mencius? Sun Chou said, "I am good at cultivating expensive gas. "... is qi, which is too big to be right and too straight to be harmful, so it is stuck between heaven and earth. It is also qi, which is consistent with righteousness and Tao; Nothing, nothing. Only by cultivating the right path and righteousness can universities cultivate the just personality of teachers and students, and they are worthy of standing between heaven and earth.