Lanzhou University, as a key university, is located in the west of the motherland. It can maintain a high teaching quality for a long time in a relatively difficult environment, and more scientific research results are formed by many factors. For example, the overall deployment of education by the state, the earnest and responsible teachers, the diligent efforts of students and so on. But among many factors, we can't help but talk about three school leaders who play an important role and are far-sighted. They are Jiang Longji, Lin and Xin Anting. These school leaders left a valuable legacy to Lanzhou University from different angles and aspects, and formed a school spirit of hard work, simplicity and rigor.
I. Xin Anting
Xin Anting (left) talks with the teacher.
Xin Anting was the first to arrive at Lanzhou University after liberation, and the last to leave Lanzhou University compared with the other two. 1949 Lanzhou was liberated. He took over Lanzhou University as the chief military representative. After eight years of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, three years of liberation war and a short battle in Lanzhou, the original humble school has become a dilapidated scene. Schools are closed, staff are lost, and teachers and students are in a state of waiting for assistance. At this time, Xin Anting walked into Lanzhou University. With affable attitude, pragmatic style and the spirit of hard struggle, he set an example to publicize the party's policies, which quickly stabilized the situation and won the support and love of teachers and students. Soon Xin Anting was transferred to the newly established People's Education Publishing House as the vice president and deputy editor-in-chief (Ye Shengtao is the president and editor-in-chief), responsible for the compilation of textbooks for primary and secondary schools. Although Xin Anting didn't stay in Lanzhou University for a long time, he turned a new page in Lanzhou University. During his work in Education Press, Xin Anting organized the compilation of teaching materials on the one hand, and compiled popular science books with his own unique style, concise and powerful language, so as to popularize historical knowledge. For example, in his historical songs, there are "Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Five Dynasties and Two Songs, and after Yuan and Ming Dynasties, it was Qing Dynasty. Four thousand years since the Xia Dynasty, two thousand years before and after the AD ... After the Eastern Han Dynasty, after the AD, before the Western Han Dynasty, BC. " Although it is only a few short sentences, it clearly outlines the history of China for thousands of years, which will be helpful for beginners or people with certain historical knowledge.
Xin Anting's second visit to Lanzhou University was in the middle and late period of the Cultural Revolution. He was admitted to the leadership team of Lanzhou University as a "three-in-one cadre" who implemented policies after "liberation". With his style, it is impossible to blend in with the rebels who held real power at that time. His situation at that time was a bit like Harry in Harry's Dismissal. He is helpless, never gives in and is isolated. Because of this, he won the sympathy and support of teachers and students and became the representative of the resistance. I once asked him how to work under such conditions. He said, "Don't be afraid. Ignore them. Read more books and think more when you have time. It will be useful in the future." He picked up a piece of paper and wrote: "A gentleman stands in the foundation, stands in the foundation and is born in Tao". He told me to read more books and study more problems. Things will get better one day, so I have to prepare for that day.
The last time I saw Xin Anting was in the late 1980s. He is seriously ill and lives in Beijing Cancer Hospital. He was dressed in a hospital gown, pale and much older, but he still sat on the bed and revised the manuscript. We talked for a long time and a lot, but we didn't talk about the illness. He knows he has cancer, and time is running out. But he takes life and death lightly. A real gentleman is one who lives one day and works one day. When I left, I asked him what he wanted me to do He smiled and said, "No, no, everything is fine." After his death, I learned from my friends that he was troubled at that time, but he never talked to anyone and didn't cause any trouble to the organization.
Xin Anting's greatest legacy to Lanzhou University is to be upright and have backbone.
Second, Lin
Lin (middle) is with Xin Anting (right) and Liu Bing (left).
Lin is the leader who has worked in Lanzhou University for the longest time. Worked in Lanzhou University in 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Even after he left Lanzhou University in the 1980s, he returned to Lanzhou University every year. He regarded Lanzhou University as the place where he devoted the most energy in his life. He loves the students, teachers and trees of Lanzhou University. Although people are gone, this friendship is endless.
Lin Yisheng, a student studying in Japan, is engaged in education. After Xin Anting left, he was appointed as the president of Lanzhou University by the Deputy Minister of Education of Northwest Military and Political Commission. Most of Lan's important activities were completed under his auspices or participation. For example, the selection and construction of new school sites, the struggle and determination of the status of key universities, and the employment and appointment of many famous professors. Such as Zhu Ziqing, Liu Youcheng, Xu Gongou, Zheng Guokun, Lv Zhongshu, Zhao Lisheng, etc. It was through his efforts that he came to Lanzhou University to teach.
Lin is of medium height, slightly hunched, and always smiles when he speaks. Speak with a strong Zhejiang accent, slowly and softly. He impressed me as kind, simple and calm. But in fact, he is a clashing iron frame with soft outside and hard inside. In the 1957 anti-rightist movement, he was the only one in Lanzhou University who held different views. He opposes drawing so many Rightists among students and wearing Rightist hats on some professors. Of course, under the circumstances at that time, his supporters were too few and his strength was too great. Lanzhou University still wrongly recruited a large number of Rightists, but in any case, Lin expressed his opinion and persisted. But in the end, he himself was not spared and was criticized as a "white flag" depriving him of the right to work.
During the Cultural Revolution, Lin He was criticized for being on the same stage. No matter what questions the rebel asks or what words he uses, he is not angry. He only answered yes or no in simple language, and his attitude was always calm. After the criticism, we walked off the stage together. I found his body shaking from side to side, so I quickly gave him a hand. I was shocked and felt that his hand was so strong and hard, burning with anger like steel. In an instant, I deeply felt that this is Lin, and this is a needle hidden in cotton by Lin.
Lin always has a caring and tolerant attitude towards young people and students. In addition to his usual concern for students, there is another outstanding example that I can't forget. Also during the Cultural Revolution, there was a critical meeting, and he was pushed downstairs. His chest and elbow were broken, his face was bruised, and he lay in bed for more than two months. But he never said which department or class of students pushed him down. Once I asked him about it, he just said, "We are responsible!" " In other words, we have failed to educate our students well and fulfill our educational responsibilities. What a good mind! But he won't forgive some people. It turned out that there was a vice president of Lanzhou University who made trouble in the school many times during the "Cultural Revolution" and continued to commit perjury for Lin. For people like Lin, it is tit-for-tat, not budging. Whenever two people * * * appear at the question meeting, Lin will change his usual attitude and sternly refute it. At that time, many people don't understand how Lin became another person on this occasion. I'm afraid it's just love and hate.
Third, Jiang Longji.
Jiang Longji 1958 transferred to Lanzhou University. Forced to die in the summer of 1966 and worked for seven years. Compared with the first two leaders, he has the shortest working time in Lanzhou University. But he is a leader. If there are only the first two leading figures, Lanzhou University is not enough to determine its position in the national colleges and universities, and it is not enough to compete with famous schools. Like the finishing touch, he is the finishing touch.
From 65438 to 0958, Jiang Longji went to Lanzhou University and could do nothing. At that time, the climax of steelmaking had passed, and there were traces of blast furnaces everywhere. The afterglow of the Great Leap Forward and the commune has not completely faded, and various activities are still impacting the school's work. 1959 although the first half of the year was better, the anti-rightist movement was launched in the second half of the year, which continued to be a very tense situation. 1960 The movement of "technological innovation and technological revolution" came again, engaging in the hybridization of ultrasound, semiconductors, pipelines and fate, and treating scientific research with an irrational attitude. Although he saw the problem and did a lot of investigation and research, there was nothing he could do. This situation is accompanied by food shortage. The quality and quantity of food are deteriorating, students are not full, teachers are hungry, edema appears, and teachers and students are generally anxious.
Under certain conditions, everything will change. 1962, the Central Committee held a meeting of 7,000 people, and soon announced 60 items of higher education, which created an opportunity for Jiang Longji to give full play to its talents. He first mobilized people's enthusiasm, adjusted the relationship between cadres, teachers and students, young and old, rehabilitated some people, took off his hat and arranged jobs. Some people come to apologize in person, advocate holding hands and making more self-criticism, and the responsibility lies with themselves. Secondly, rectify the education order and stop all kinds of appraisal activities (such as sports and health). ), limit the power of the general branch and branch, forbid to suspend classes casually, and forbid to criticize individuals indiscriminately. Re-establish the system of school opening, holidays, exams and working hours to reduce working hours. Every day before class, he will have a look in front of the classroom to see if all classes are on time and if there are any students who don't attend classes. Sometimes he even walks into the classroom in person to attend classes with the students. Third, pay attention to teaching quality. He advocates that good teachers go to the front line and old teachers go to the front line. Thanks to his efforts, the experienced teacher who has been excluded for many years stepped onto the platform. The curriculum plans of all departments should be strictly examined, and any improper arrangements should be adjusted. Fourth, pay attention to scientific research. For universities, scientific research and teaching are mutually causal. Without high-quality and creative scientific research, the teaching quality is not high. If we only pay attention to scientific research and neglect teaching, we will lose the significance of preaching, teaching and educating people. Jiang Longji handled these two relations well. With the arrangement of teaching work, we have resumed some scientific research projects that have been stopped for a long time, helped some professors improve their experimental conditions, allocated sufficient funds, equipped with assistants, and built key laboratories such as organic, cellular, nuclear physics and magnetism. After this series of work, all the work of the school is on the right track, teachers have their own teaching and research work, students have books to read, and a stable and harmonious situation has emerged. Ye Kaiyuan, a teacher who just transferred from Peking University to Lanzhou University, said: "I didn't expect this place in the northwest to have such a good teaching and research environment." . This may be a true evaluation of the school work led by Jiang Longji at that time.
That's what happened. These measures have stabilized the school. People's subjective wishes must meet the requirements of objective needs. Several measures taken by Jiang Longji met the requirements at that time. Because after a long period of exercise, teachers have to teach, students have to learn, and people have to decide! If we grasp this point, we will also grasp the hearts of the people and restore the order of the school. On the basis of this practice, he wrote down the famous "eight articles" of education. This is the summary of Jiang Longji's educational thought and his years of educational experience.
Write here, you can't help but talk about Jiang Longji's personality charm. He is a man of integrity and an intellectual with a conscience. His transfer from Peking University to Lanzhou University was actually a punishment and an exile. The reason is that he expressed different opinions in the anti-rightist movement of Peking University. He believes that although some professors have made some mistakes, they are not anti-party and should not be dragged to the right; Some students did something wrong out of ignorance, so don't draw Rightists. What's more, when Chen Boda published the article "Struggle for Building a Factional New Taipei University", he expressed different opinions, arguing that "how can we build a factional superstructure without a factional material foundation?" And picked up the phone and told Chen Boda his point of view. Although Chen Boda was polite, he still said, "We can discuss it!" But with discontent, Kang Sheng is much more direct. He said that Jiang Longji was "rigid in thinking" and "seriously right-leaning". He was criticized before the end of the anti-rightist movement and decided to transfer from Peking University to the remote Lanzhou University. Jiang Longji is an unyielding man. When he arrived at Lanzhou University, he still handled problems in the same style as before, seeking truth from facts and not afraid of powerful people. He often said: "I grew up eating from the northwest, so I should serve the people well." If Jiang Longji has made some achievements in running the school, it is largely because of his personality charm. Because both teachers and students believe that he is a decent person, a selfless person, and a person who works hard to run the school. Personally, I think if we compare Jiang Longji's educational thought, political accomplishment and moral quality, the first two are the second, and moral quality is the first, which is the most memorable.
While Jiang Longji has made some achievements in educational reform, President Mao Zedong made a Spring Festival talk during the Spring Festival of 1964, and severely criticized the educational work. It is believed that the current education is to treat students as "enemies", "make a surprise attack", advocate "fewer but better" and "open-book examination". Once again, the whole education circle is at a loss, and everyone doesn't know what to do. The work of the school can only be pushed forward slowly by inertia. Then the "four clean-ups" movement began, and the cultural revolution began, and the educational reform work completely stopped. Jiang Longji also narrowly escaped death in this land for which he fought for many years.
The test of history is advancing rapidly, and the centenary of Lanzhou University is coming. Recalling these past events is both responsible and hopeful. I hope Lanzhou University will be more brilliant and have more dazzling leaders. It is hoped that there will be more scientific research achievements, higher teaching quality and more talents for the country.
About the author:
Cui Naifu was born in 1928, Changping, Hebei (now Beijing). 1947 studied at Sino-French University. 1948, joined the China * * * production party. The following year, I entered North China Revolutionary University to study and work. After the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), he served as secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and head of the National Agency Cooperation Association. At the age of 29, he became the Minister of Propaganda Department and Dean of Lanzhou University Standing Committee. During the Cultural Revolution, he served as deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Lanzhou University. After the Cultural Revolution, it was transferred to the Ministry of Civil Affairs in 1 1. He is a member of the 12th and 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
During his tenure as a minister, Cui Naifu made bold theoretical innovations and practical explorations in China's civil affairs, including rural poverty alleviation, pension, disaster relief, social welfare and social security. After the reform of market economy, social welfare, unemployment and social security in China have a new trial mode.
Cui Naifu was a pioneer of public welfare undertakings in modern China. He not only founded the first lottery ticket and the first community volunteer organization in China, but also was the founder and the first president of china charity federation, the largest public welfare organization in China.