Interpretation of school motto:
Learn from others and persevere: Ouyang Xiu's Preface to Sending a Scholar to Ceng Gong says, "Learn from others and persevere." "Learn from others' strengths", that is, learn from others' strengths, aiming at advocating teachers and students to read widely and learn from others' strengths to achieve erudition. "Persistence", that is, to strengthen ideals and beliefs and adhere to moral conduct, aims to inspire teachers and students to establish themselves with virtue and cultivate righteousness, so as to achieve perfect personality and "self-improvement and virtue".
"Learn from others and persevere" is the basic spirit of China traditional culture. It requires both teachers and students to have excellent moral character, profound knowledge, both ability and political integrity, learn from others, cultivate self-cultivation, improve themselves, cultivate talents, have lofty ideals and beliefs, firm will and loyal conduct, and thus become a noble person.
Diligence and wit: "Diligence" comes from the great power of Confucius: "Yu, Tang, Wen, Wu and Zhou Gong are diligent and industrious." "Being quick to act" comes from The Analects of Confucius: "Slow to speak and quick to act." "The Analects of Confucius for Politics": "Learning without thinking is useless, and thinking without learning is dangerous." "Be diligent in thinking and be faster than action" means not only diligent in thinking, thoughtful, exploring the true meaning and grasping the law, but also quick in action, good at grasping opportunities, brave in practice and daring to innovate, which is the core essence of Confucius' educational thought of "combining learning with thinking" and Jiang's educational thought of "integrating knowledge with practice".
As the motto of the school, "learn from others, be diligent in thinking and be quick at wit", focus on the training requirements of teachers and students who want to be knowledgeable, learn from others and be versatile, adhere to the educational goal of firm belief, ideal pursuit and persistent sentiment, shoulder the responsibility of leading the times, dare to innovate and be diligent in exploration, and carry forward the university spirit of seeking truth from facts, integrating knowledge with practice and being brave in practice; It has placed ardent expectations on cultivating teachers and students' broad feelings of caring for the motherland, helping the world and cultivating self-cultivation.
At the same time, the requirements of "persistence" and "sensitivity" are highly consistent with the core essence of Jinggangshan spirit, such as "firm belief" and "dare to break new paths". They are the value orientation and goal pursuit of modern university personnel training, scientific research, serving the society, innovating and inheriting culture, highly unified with cultivating and practicing socialist core values, and in line with the orientation of running a school and the goal of personnel training.