The word "seeking truth from facts" comes from the biography of Wang Xianchuan between Han Shuhe, in which Liu De said "make the past serve the present and seek truth from facts". Later, it was extended by people, and Mao Zedong once said this in "Transforming Our Learning": "How? Practical things? , is an objective thing. what's up , is the internal relation of objective things, namely regularity. Beg? That is, we go to study. " Zhao Tianlin initiated Beiyang University with these four words. In the spirit of seeking truth from facts, treat scientific and technological knowledge and correct the style of study. It has played a positive role in the academic and education of Beiyang University in the past and Tianjin University today, with far-reaching influence.
On the school spirit of rigorous scholarship;
The significance of rigorous scholarship is because science is the cause of honest people, and people who engage in natural science know the truth of "a thousand miles away"; The laboratory of social science is the whole society. Whether you are engaged in natural science or social science, you must have rigorous research methods. For teachers, rigorous scholarship has two contents: one is to study hard, be thirsty for knowledge, be brave in exploring new theories and knowledge, persevere, never tire of learning, and master profound scientific and cultural knowledge; The second is to teach students scientific and cultural knowledge seriously, adhere to the truth, be pragmatic and be tireless in teaching others. This is the thought and morality that people's teachers must have. The most important thing in rigorous scholarship is the spirit of seeking truth from facts. Seeking truth is to find the correct conclusion according to the existing facts and materials. For example, when Chinese teachers were preparing the text "Gong Yu Mountain", they found that for a long time, people interpreted "Mount Wu in Taihang Mountain, 700 miles high, Wan Ren in the south of Jizhou and the north of Heyang" as the north bank of the Yellow River, which could not correspond to "the south of Jizhou". We checked the maps and documents and found that today's Meng County in Henan Province is called "Heyang" in history, thus correcting the previous mistakes. It can be seen that teachers should carefully search for a sound, a sentence, a place name, a historical document, a principle and a conclusion in their own knowledge and teaching.