If we only understand the "elite" from the superficial demeanor and lifestyle, elite education will become the pursuit of material fashion and trends, and universities seem to have a tendency to become beauty institutions or etiquette schools. In fact, elite training has nothing to do with elite skills training, such as playing golf. Elite consciousness is first of all social responsibility, humanistic spirit and scientific quality, and then the cultivation of personality temperament. Our university has put the cart before the horse in elite education.
Yale University, 170 1, has cultivated a large number of influential figures in the history of the United States and even the world for 300 years, and is even known as the "cradle of the president". When the president of Yale was asked how to cultivate elite talents, he did not talk too much about the significance of Yale's hardware facilities in the process of cultivating elite students, but talked about student associations. He pointed out that Yale students organized 250 clubs themselves. Because students graduate every year, some of these 250 clubs change their leaders every year. Yale University has more than 654.38 million students. In this way, 20% of Yale students have the opportunity to become the president of a club. He believes that students will cultivate all kinds of useful abilities in their own clubs. In fact, these clubs are actually a laboratory for cultivating leadership, and many important abilities such as cooperation ability, hands-on operation ability, persuasion and mobilization ability are cultivated in these club activities. President Yale's talk about American Ivy League is undoubtedly more enlightening for some of our principals who talk about insufficient government investment and pay attention to the introduction of advanced foreign hardware and equipment. From this point of view, the noblest accomplishment of students does not necessarily require excessive teaching costs, but educational ideas, such as a kind smile, appropriate language, teamwork spirit, organizational ability and so on. Can be obtained through classroom and life education.