Originally, I asked my classmates why they wanted to go to college. I will naturally think that it has been about thirty years. I was admitted to the university on 1978. Why did I go to college at that time? It stems from a pale desire to read. So our review materials at that time were not as thick and beautifully printed as you are now. Instead, students carve a review outline on the steel plate by hand. I remember printing this review paper in the evening and instructing it until three o'clock in the evening. On the day of the college entrance examination, I got up at five o'clock in the morning because I was afraid of being late. I had to walk ten miles to get to the place where the examination room was. I remember when we finished the exam at noon and sat on the ground, all the candidates ate a dry steamed bread with a little pickles in it.

I left home for the first time when I was eighteen. I still remember that there is no quilt cover like yours today. At that time, all the students had to sew their own quilts. I sewed the first quilt for three hours and fifty minutes. I have stabbed my hand countless times. I think the pain at that time was my most unforgettable. I sometimes wonder, what is prepared for you by today's happiness and everything today, is it beneficial or harmful to your future success and growth? In fact, during my college years, I experienced many hardships. Even if it is the last post office, even if you send money yourself, it is also an experience for yourself.

Why did you go to college? This sentence is easy for a 50-year-old professor, but for young people who just entered the university, I think it is unrealistic to ask too much. Let me give you an example. Nowadays, fathers often educate their sons, "Son, it's ok to fall in love, but you can't choose girls, just choose beautiful ones, as long as your heart is beautiful." I often think, this child, this classmate's father, I said, go back and see what your mother looks like. Didn't your father always look for beautiful people when he was young? Therefore, when we reach a certain age, students who haven't entered university life or even have little life experience, it is neither appropriate nor fair to criticize too much. The goal of life is university, not achieved at once. There must be a process. A university is definitely not for everyone to learn only one knowledge. I don't think the most important thing is which prestigious school you go to. Of course, I know today that there are students from the most famous university in China. I sincerely hope that the university can grasp the taste of its history and culture during its study.

I have been teaching in Zhejiang University for almost seventeen years. If we regard it as the spring tide of Qiantang River and the beauty of West Lake, as the glory of Zhejiang University, I say it is worthless. What Zhejiang University should really cherish is the "truth-seeking" school spirit established by the old president Zhu Kezhen who led Zhejiang University (students) to move thousands of miles to the west during the seven years of running a school in Meitan, Zunyi. Therefore, I have always advocated that university culture should have historical accumulation, which is the most precious spiritual wealth of children. Famous universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua, Beijing Normal University, Fudan University, Jiaotong University and Huaxia all have rich cultural connotations. At this point, I want to say, can't children in Guizhou University be as happy as those in Peking University, Tsinghua and Zhejiang University?

We have recently, let us shine and make us confident. A strong girl, have you heard? A girl with bone cancer received more than a dozen radiotherapy after amputation of her lower limbs, at the most painful time in her life. Even with the dream of college, I was admitted to the key line. I said this child is priceless to all college students in Guizhou University and the whole country. So, as a president of Huada University, I drove to her bed and handed in a precious university admission notice. What's the girl's name? Her name is Xiao Li. I said, comrades of Guizhou University, you have Xiao Li in your university, and since then your students have set a shining example of life in the capital. With Xiao Li in your university, your students should never lose to Peking University, Tsinghua or Zhejiang University in their inner feelings and spirits.

I say this today to tell you my ardent hope for the students present. In fact, it is not complicated to ask a person why he wants to go to college. In short, he must gradually appreciate what you have learned, even his love for your major. You will love everything you give. Whatever is too easy to get, love can't last long. So I thought, I am now in my polymer field, how do I love it? It is precisely forced love. The students with the best grades in our class were all fashionable at that time. When they hear physical chemistry, it is physical chemistry. It was mysterious then. Both the female students with good grades and the male students with good grades in the class choose there. As a result, it was our younger classmates' turn, or students who were not particularly prominent in the class at that time, and they could not choose this major. What about me? I was forced to choose polymer major. As a result, I tell you, it was such a compulsion that I gradually fell in love with the polymer major, and I really liked it. I studied abroad, and in order to get this doctorate, I made a paper in the evening. I basically didn't see the sun for a week, and I spent all my time next to the instruments in the basement. When I walked out of the lab that day, everyone was shaking. Today, I also send two sentences to the college students here. I gave because of love, but more importantly, because of love, I gave, so I must love more.

At present, college students have a heavy burden and even feel breathless. You were misled by a mistake, thinking that when you were employed, those who censored you were watching? The more courses written on your resume, the better. Today, I give you a suggestion. It is the most important goal to read intensively and consolidate the professional foundation and basic humanistic thoughts when reading undergraduate courses. Don't learn too much, first consolidate the foundation. It's just like martial arts, squatting, lifting barbells and pull-ups. You can create your own figure and blank materials, and a broad future awaits you. Think too early, what do you want to do, what job you have, and what salary you will get in the future? I think it is a short-sighted and unnecessary psychological burden. Speaking of this, I have to say one thing, that is, the current media. Or some tabloids take our children seriously, saying that college students can't find jobs. I have been a professor at Zhejiang University for so many years, and I know it too well. How many units in China need our children from Zhejiang University, Peking University and Tsinghua to make contributions? But did our children really go where they were needed? No, I put my picky things first, so I want to tell you that it's not that you can't find a job, but that the job you enjoy now is not easy for you to find. If you really want to go to Guizhou, I'll take you now, and I've bought you a plane ticket, so I want to say that it's not that you can't find a job, but that it's not easy to find a job you like. You don't want to do hard work, so I hope you will be simpler, purer and more natural in your whole college life, and face college life with such a mentality. My own experience is that it will certainly bring you motivation to learn, happiness in life, and a beautiful vision and hope for the future.

So, what other students in the university should enrich themselves? What I admire most is style. You must love art and sports, so I am educating these boys now, especially boys like me. Many girls are very moved when they learn vocal music. Generally, everyone thinks that my voice is at least 1.85 meters high. You can't play basketball with my body, can you? Do you know me? I am the chairman of Zhejiang University Table Tennis Association. I am 53 years old. Why am I so young? It is art and sports that add vitality to me. What is the best spiritual education, art and spiritual accomplishment? Sports. Let's boys see more, girls' soft violins and graceful dances. As I said, girls should see more boys playing on the court. What is that? It is sunshine and masculinity. So today, I want to advise you that in order to study healthily and happily, you should go to the stadium, the concert hall, listen to beautiful music and watch more passionate stadiums. Will produce youthful vitality.

I was just thinking, how eager I am to discuss the identity of a student again and then step into the university campus. Sometimes, as elders and teachers, I am filled with sweet envy when I see you strolling and studying there. Now I often attend the graduation ceremony of some university presidents. Why do so many wealth owners concentrate on the university campus to study again? That is. If I say these words to you later today, I will tell you that as long as you have a little ideal and a little dream, you will definitely feel a happy youth during your study in the university. Thank you.

Audience question: What would you do if you received a letter from a student complaining about the canteen?

Zheng: Call the general manager of Logistics Group immediately. I have to ask him. Where are the chicken legs? Why has the price gone up again? I often tell logistics comrades that a student's life is a major event. I eat in the student canteen, and so does breakfast, lunch and dinner. Of course, Mr. Sa Beining, like you, I am a little more handsome. In fact, in the canteen, hearing students reflect these things is a kind of trust to the president of the university. Children just take care of you, so if you want to do something, you should immediately understand or even solve the problems raised by children.

Audience question: Have you ever been in love in college?

Zheng: I will never forget one thing. On the eve of graduation in the fourth grade, the so-called "four little cocks" boys in our class, the four very small children, sat on the ladder in the central area of Zhejiang University campus. It was there that I thought about how our eldest brother taught us not to fall in love and said to be pure. As I was talking, I saw an old brother in our class take the most beautiful girl in our class. After becoming a teacher, I was thinking, it is normal and natural for people to fall in love at the age of eighteen, but children, Mr. Zheng should also say a word, you should put the most precious time on your study, because there is a great responsibility, your shoulders are not strong enough, I am talking about boys, it doesn't matter if you are late, but the two of us (referring to Sa Beining) can't stop it.

The audience asked: What does a university rely on to lead students' lives?

Zheng: I am glad that my student, a student of Zhejiang University, can ask such a profound question. To tell the truth, some confusion of college students in China is the inevitable result of traces brought by primary and secondary education in China. Because you are really in the whole process of primary and secondary education, you are studying to go to college, and actually entered the university. When you are in this free space, you become uncomfortable and aimless. In the past, going to college was your goal. Now you have entered Peking University, Tsinghua and Zhejiang University. Where is your goal? This needs to be searched and located again, so how long will this process take? Looking at everyone's mastery of their own learning, I think it is the beginning of the whole life and cultural accomplishment. You are so beautiful, if you think this is external beauty, then you should be richer inside. I think these goals are also clear goals.

Audience question: Is it a good investment to go to college now?

Zheng: The most critical issue you mentioned is the return on investment. You can't look at it that way. Just don't envy your current classmates. Some of them didn't go to college. How can they be rich now? Have you asked them about their admiration and admiration for you? That's what I just said. Why do so many rich people drive BMW Mercedes-Benz to your place to study for an EMBA (Master of Business Administration) and take a photo? I feel particularly satisfied. Indeed, we have to admit that the process of reading is not the process of directly acquiring wealth. If you look at the wealth of your life, Xiao Dan, I still want to encourage you. What you get now is definitely long-term wealth.

The audience asked: Does the reform of university education focus on practice or stop at appeal?

Zheng: I wish I was still in front of you and more practical. I think I should tell you from the bottom of my heart that college grades will not determine a person's life. I want to tell you that I want to pass this idea on to the children of Guizhou University and Zhejiang University, including you. I hope you can only count the university as only three kilometers behind, and the seven kilometers behind should be your continuous study after entering the society. If you are in such a mood, so you just said that college students value (grades), then as principals and professors, we will tell children to pay attention to grades, but I hope you will say more, I want to look at the students' eyes now, and I want to look at you.

I want to tell you something. I'm in Zhejiang University, and my brain is really like being electrocuted. Every time the military training is over, the beautiful female students of Zhejiang University are desperate to pounce on the soldiers, regardless of whether the soldiers have a sweat or a beard. I see male students chasing the bus of the People's Liberation Army. After chasing for thousands of meters, they stamped their feet behind them and shouted reluctance. I have been in contact with our classmates in Zhejiang University for 40 days before I have such deep feelings. In universities, our professors teach children four years as undergraduates, and if they are graduate students, some can reach eight years. To tell the truth, moderator, I seldom see our students have such emotional feelings, that is to say, only education that touches the heart and feelings is the emotion that children can remember.

Audience question: You often express your opinions outside your major, aren't you worried about making mistakes?

Zheng: You are right. As a scholar, we must be realistic about science. Don't pretend you don't understand. You'd better state what you don't understand. I am not an expert in this field, but one thing is precisely because I study material science and chemistry, which is also a bit special. Because of his rich hobbies, he is still a military enthusiast. And I told the doctor that my medical knowledge is probably my doctor's fourth grade. I have a point. If men in China are not good enough, education has killed the courage and confidence of our boys in China, which is a great responsibility.

Audience question: Teachers' misunderstanding will hurt students. Can you understand the harm?

Zheng: I especially understand that for underage children, they occasionally make mistakes on impulse or in one aspect. As an elder and professor, I think it is necessary to care for children in the long run for their future love. So I said at Zhejiang University that what can be saved must be saved, whether it can be expelled, whether it can be punished, and whether it can guarantee a good school.

Audience question: Can you stop talking and do something that really changes university education?

Zheng: We can't always think that you can change a day and a place at once. Why should I give a speech to myself? I was asked to make a report. I am full of feelings. I think education is a subtle change. It can't be done overnight. So now I can do it directly. I'm happy to say that it's ok to go to Guizhou University. I found that I could do it. But my speech, I firmly believe that it is also a firm and persistent change.

The audience asked: How far is the distance between university and society?

Zheng: You have raised a very good question, which is also the reason why we advocate social practice in colleges and universities in recent years. Even the education of entrepreneurial agriculture, what are our good intentions? I want college students to get in touch with society as soon as possible, but I want to tell Li Daxue to keep a distance from society. University is different from society. University is to let people have faith and purity. If the university is so close to the society, it will lose its beliefs and dreams, and it is easier to lose its idealism.

The audience asked: Why is it always "chosen" to find a job after graduating from college?

Zheng: You heard the word "selected". This classmate just mentioned a concept: "choice". In fact, the word "looking for a job" is misleading to you. Why? You put yourself in a position where you have the initiative and the right to choose others. This is your confusion and pain, because I want to tell you that this word is not suitable for you for the time being, and you have indeed been chosen. So what is a really good university education? A good education is to teach a person to adapt to various choices, and in the process of being chosen, he can quickly enter the role. Can be recognized quickly, and can take responsibility after being selected, if such training is really successful.

Audience question: What is the difference between a principal and education?

Zheng: It's easy to be a good principal, such as getting close. For example, if the teacher and classmates say that there are fewer drumsticks, I will give you a big drumstick. But to be an excellent principal, he should be an educator with good academic performance, full of culture and art, broad vision and love for students. This is the direction that today's principals, including myself, should keep learning and making progress.