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Excerpt code: GEWS Title: Criticism of Peking University
Author: Xue Yong
Douban score: 7.6
Publishing House: Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House
Year of publication: 2009- 1 1
Page count: 328
Content introduction:
Criticism of Peking University: China's higher education is sick: universities can only be understood in the tradition of western social autonomy. The establishment of universities is the autonomy of associations, just like those independent guilds in medieval Europe, which made their own rules and were voluntarily bound by them. In such a community, everyone has a responsibility, and students certainly have a responsibility. I'm afraid most teachers and students in China University don't understand this.
As long as students have a sense of autonomy, don't wait for others to solve their own problems, and get together to study, discuss and organize activities, they will become a good university. Although the external environment is difficult to change now, I believe that if students are highly conscious of their life mission in college, they can at least educate themselves.
What is the core of college life? In my opinion, the most important thing is argument. This kind of "debate" is not necessarily an open oral debate, but rather a silent distinction between right and wrong in the mind, which is an endless spiritual effort.
Modern society is organized by documents. Literature embodies the complexity of social organization, whether in bureaucracy or enterprises. If you can't participate in writing these documents and read them effectively, you won't be able to hold any middle and high-level jobs.
Many people who learn "useless" things in college often become particularly "useful" talents in the future. If you check the educational background of American business presidents, you will know that there are indeed many people who get MBA, but not many people study business management when they are undergraduates. On the contrary, many undergraduates are "useless" majors such as literature, history, art and medieval studies.
About the author:
Xue Yong, 1983, graduated from Chinese Department of Peking University, and received a doctorate in history from Yale University. Now he teaches in America. He has published books such as How to Educate the Elite in America, Grassroots is the Mainstream, One-year-old Ivy, Hating the Rich, etc. He has been writing review articles for newspapers at home and abroad for a long time and is regarded as the most influential opinion leader in the Chinese world. His Sina blog has more than 20 million visitors, attracting a large number of high-quality readers, and is the champion of domestic ideological and cultural blogs.