If we must assign a practical purpose to the university curriculum, I say it is to cultivate good members of society (university education is definitely not academic education, but universal education about the relationship between social citizens. Compared with technical colleges, survival skills can be emphasized more. What he should provide is a macro-level study of human studies. If the purpose of the university is not basically clear, many students will either muddle along, pursue the so-called future like eager for quick success, be confused after the reality shines into the ideal, or follow the trend. The latter puts off the skills that universities should learn until how many graduate students can learn independently. What's the problem? A diploma is just an advertisement for a few years of extra education. Its art is the art of social life, and its purpose is to adapt to the world.
If we must give university education a practical purpose, my proposition is to cultivate good citizens of society. The art of university education is the art of social life, and its purpose is to make people adapt to this world.
On the one hand, it doesn't limit its views to specific occupations, on the other hand, it doesn't create heroes or inspire geniuses. Indeed, works of genius do not belong to art; The hero's mind is not ruled;
On the one hand, university education should not focus on certain occupations, on the other hand, it should not cultivate heroes and geniuses. In fact, genius cannot be created artificially, and the protagonist's thoughts are also unconstrained. Genius is far from education. However, education may bury such a genius. This is the paradox of education. If our education is more inclusive, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude rather than absolute unity, students are people with life and thoughts, not laboratory mice or goods on the assembly line.
A university is not the birthplace of poets or immortal writers, school founders, colonial leaders or national conquerors. It did not promise a generation of Aristotle or Newton, Napoleon or Washington, Raphael or Shakespeare, although such a natural miracle had been included in its scope before it.
A university is not the birthplace of poets, immortal writers and school founders, nor is it a place to train colonial leaders or foreign conquerors. Universities do not promise to produce a group of giants like Aristotle, Newton, Napoleon, Washington, Raphael and Shakespeare, although these masterpieces of nature have appeared in the walls of universities before. The educational role of universities should not be exaggerated and sanctified.
On the other hand, it is not satisfied with training critics or experimentalists, economists or engineers, although these are also included in its scope.
In addition, universities should not be satisfied with training critics, experimenters, economists and engineers, although training these talents is also within the scope of university education.
But university training is a great and ordinary means to achieve great and ordinary goals; It aims to improve the knowledge level of society, cultivate the public's thoughts, purify the national taste, provide real principles for the public's enthusiasm, set fixed goals for the public's wishes, expand and sober the concept of the times, promote the exercise of political power, and improve the communication in private life.
University education is a great and ordinary way to achieve great and ordinary goals. There is still a long way to go in Xiu Yuan, and I will go up and down. The purpose of university education is to improve the social knowledge atmosphere, cultivate public interest, purify people's taste, provide real justice for impetuous people, provide definite goals for people's ideals, expand the think tank of the times and inject calm thinking, promote the exercise of political power and improve the quality of interpersonal communication.
It is education that makes a person have a clear and conscious understanding of his own views and judgments, gives him truth in developing these views and judgments, gives him eloquence in expressing these views and judgments, and gives him an inspiring force.
University education should enable people to clearly understand their own opinions and judgments, and give full play to them correctly, expound them eloquently and emphasize them forcefully. (It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish)
It taught him to see things as they really are, go straight to the point, untie a group of thoughts, find sophistry and discard irrelevant things. It prepares him for any position and is proficient in any subject.
University education should teach people to see things clearly, directly grasp the key points, and teach people to untie the shackles of thought, find sophistry and abandon irrelevance. University education enables people to be competent for any position reliably and master any subject easily.
It tells him how to adapt to others, how to put into their state of mind, how to bring his own thoughts to them, how to influence them, how to reach an understanding with them and how to tolerate them.
University education teaches people how to adapt to others, how to put themselves in others' shoes, how to convey their own ideas to others, how to influence others, and how to understand and tolerate each other.
He is at home in any society; He has something in common with every class; He knows when to speak and when to be silent; He can talk; He can listen; When he has nothing to teach himself, he can ask a pertinent question and get a lesson in time;
It is harmonious and natural for him to get along with people of any group; He has something in common with anyone he meets. He knows when to speak and when to be silent; He is good at talking and listening; When he has nothing to say, he can ask pertinent questions and receive education in time;
He is always ready, but never gets in the way; He is a pleasant partner, a comrade you can rely on; He knows when to be serious, when to play with elegance, and when to take effect seriously. He has a kind of peace of mind. When he lives in this world, he lives in his own heart. When he can't go abroad, he has a source of happiness in his own home.
He is always eager to try, but never interferes with others; He is a pleasant partner and reliable friend; He knows when to be serious and when to play; He is free and witty, elegant when playing, and not angry when he is serious. He is calm as water when he is on earth, and enjoys himself at home.
He has a gift to serve him in public and support him after retirement. Without this gift, good luck is vulgar, while failure and disappointment have a charm.
He has a gift that makes him feel comfortable when serving the public; Give him moral support after retirement. Without this talent, even if the family is rich, it will not be vulgar; If you have this talent, it has its own charm even after setbacks and disappointments.
The art that makes a person become all this is as useful as the art of wealth or the art of health in terms of the goal it pursues, although it is not easily influenced by methods, and its result is not so tangible, so certain and so complete.
The goal of university education is to teach people all these skills. It is as useful as the skill of acquiring wealth and health, although it is more difficult to master, more elusive, more uncertain and more difficult to possess completely.
Now I agree with this view and hope to use it to restrain myself and educate myself.
I can't change my deviation now, but I can change myself, a person.
I remember an educator said: what students get in learning is what remains after forgetting what they have learned. "
The rest is your own way of thinking. Of course, the concept of China people is deeply influenced by the concept of feudal Confucianism, which cannot be changed in a short time.