Our history likes nostalgia because ancient sages set an example for us in life. The unchangeable agricultural society makes people's thoughts selfish and empty, and hopeless productivity can only find psychological comfort by tracing back to the past.
After the Revolution of 1911, the New Culture Movement boldly broke through the ideological rigidity in China's cultural history, but its achievements were quickly aborted by various wars. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the most extensive and profound revolution in the ideological field in China's history, the proposal that "practice is the only criterion for testing truth" inspired people's innovative thinking, and at the same time, China people took the step of bold exploration for the first time. It was a passionate era, when people criticized the tradition and began to pursue a new road in line with their own development; However, after decades of exploration and practice, although power has made great concessions to the market economy and China's pace of catching up with the world economy has obviously accelerated, we are still stagnant in the deeper ideological field. No matter in the macro or micro technical fields, we don't have the locomotives that lead the world's progress like Microsoft, Intel and ipad, which is extremely disproportionate to our 30 years of reform and opening up and the pace of modernization in our populous country. Without creative achievements, the source of market economy will dry up, our economy will wander in the low-end field forever, and people's anxiety about wealth will become more and more anxious. Without the promotion of scientific and technological achievements and the support of innovative technologies, low-end industries will be repeatedly built, and the vicious killing of the market will never end; The people's moral standard and spiritual pursuit will be further reduced; The pursuit of money and the setbacks and failures in the pursuit make the whole society full of resentment and disappointment about the living environment. The crux of all this lies in the bureaucratic system of education, academic exaggeration and giving up the pursuit of truth.
In a sense, our education today is still only a continuation of the imperial examination; Although there are some changes in form and content, the purpose and purpose of education is only an essential purgatory process to change the life state in the eyes of education and educatees. Instead of constantly exploring the unknown world by mastering the principles, we constantly carry out pioneering practice in the depth and breadth of science, and take creative achievements as the direction of our study and struggle. This vulgar value orientation determines that exam-oriented education will "survive the fittest" through obscure and complicated examination questions. Therefore, after decades of painstaking education, only the elite of officials have been calcined, but few world-class technical leaders and scientific masters.
Exam-oriented education, like the imperial examination, has trained a group of reciting geniuses throughout the academic system. The best middle school, not only has a high hit rate of guessing boxing and betting questions, but also the steps to solve those strange problems are firmly remembered by students. But the changing world will not provide people with good answers to recite. Rousseau said: Nature gave a gift, but it refused to give a second gift. When a person has a super memory, his ability to understand and analyze will be limited. Einstein was once asked about the speed of light, and the great scientist who established the theory of relativity by comparing the speed of light could not answer. He said, why should I bother to recite the answers that can be found in any textbook? The memory of garbage will seriously affect the efficiency and quality of thinking and research. A survey shows that the professional status of the top candidates in the college entrance examination has made little achievements over the years, which just shows that there are blind spots and misunderstandings in our educational means and methods.
Mastering a principle is to master 50 questions, master 500 questions or master, and a lot of time is wasted in this meaningless toss. The purpose of mastering the principle is to stimulate our logical thinking and imagination about the unknown world, and take the existing knowledge and skills as the key to the future. This requires cultivating students' critical thinking and stimulating their enthusiasm for exploration, instead of endlessly drilling into the problems that the known world is meaningless to human life with principles. In other words, this is to make students' basic skills more solid, but this way of thinking and education itself determines the mentality of staying put and not overstepping the rules. If the mastery of basic skills is not matched with soaring wings, we will always stay on the basis of understanding the known world, or continue to follow the old path on the basis of previous experience, or translate and clone other people's technological achievements, or use it as a label for career promotion. The success of plagiarism, plagiarism and forgery has greatly corrupted the existing academic atmosphere. Intellectuals are the backbone of the nation and the engine of social progress. Without honesty and integrity, giving up the pursuit of truth is not only a blasphemy against education, but also a disappointment to the ardent expectations of society.
The official standards of China University have created a group of "double-shouldered" talents. The so-called "double shoulders" means teaching in teaching posts and being an official in administrative posts, which seriously devalues the rigor of educational academics. Education and scholarship are great undertakings that need to be devoted wholeheartedly. An intellectual who is interested in scientific and cultural undertakings must first have the spirit of selfless struggle. How can a person who can't keep anything under the temptation of interests achieve "perseverance, one stone can be carved"? The "ulterior motives" of "double shoulders" have seriously corroded the teaching staff, and some professors and associate professors have to get official positions to feel at ease in their "jobs"; As soon as the cadres change, they line up to find the party secretary to be an official. The quality of being a teacher is so vulgar and snobbish, how can we think that the teaching method has given students a creative example and encouragement?
Creative achievements come from independent thinking and free expression of independent thinking. What everyone can understand and know is not truth. Truth comes from a special soul, and its particularity lies in transcending ordinary people's thinking and imagination, and discovering the objective laws of the unknown world with the spirit of criticizing and questioning tradition and secularity. This requires not only courage, but also academic freedom and a relaxed and honest research environment to sincerely care for and support the expression of truth. Human physiological factors determine that the golden age of creativity is 25 to 40 years old; However, the ideological achievements of these people in domestic universities and scientific research institutions are difficult to "give birth"; Technocracy and academic bureaucracy have seriously restricted the emergence of new ideas. The so-called technocrats are experts with administrative positions who use their personal connections to control the implementation of scientific research funds; Academic bureaucrats are "respected" people who have entered the academic menopause, and they also monopolize the declaration of scientific research funds. Young epigenetic, even if they have extraordinary ideas, stimulate the impulse to create, in such an environment, they either suffocate or copy; So the spark of wisdom is annihilated in the heart, just like love in feudal times, silently accompanying a person's life. This invisible loss, accustomed to a numb society that does not strive for progress, has not caused the slightest regret and anxiety. Selfishness, stubbornness and rigidity make the rafters rot first, which seriously hinders the birth of creativity.
Knowledge and creation have no national boundaries, and the characteristics of occupation determine the lofty moral quality of intellectuals. Creative thinking comes from selfless dedication. This "selflessness" doesn't just stay in words. With the responsibility to mankind and the world, adhere to the position of all mankind, creative achievements have legendary vitality; Any creation confined to countries and ethnic areas has a narrow meaning; The result of selfish creation simply can't stand scrutiny and test. Part of the research funds are used for public relations, part for private use and part for running errands. The "bean curd residue project" in the academic field is worse than the phenomenon in the architectural field, and there is not even a brick in the ivory tower of paper.
Today, we hold high the torch of our ancestors, bear the great trust of our nation, and stride forward with the ambition of leading the rise of the world economy. If the fields of education, learning and research are troubled by selfish distractions, we can't conquer the selfish and narrow subjective world before conquering the unknown world; Productivity is stagnant on the platform of low-end industries. Where does the confidence to lead the world come from? The world is cold, people's hearts are not ancient, and national psychology has returned to that nostalgic melancholy. Will the tragedy of the retro curse be repeated?