A scientific and reasonable interpretation of the university spirit in the new period and a grasp of its characteristics are not only the proper meaning of thoroughly studying and implementing the spirit of the national education conference, but also the important content of implementing the project of educating people with moral education in the new period, and also the premise and foundation of strengthening the connotation construction of colleges and universities and promoting the high-level development of higher education.
University spirit is an ideal, belief and behavior guide that has been widely recognized by teachers and students, consciously practiced, passed down from generation to generation and continuously enriched with the development of the times through the high conciseness and integration of the school's historical tradition, spiritual quality, school-running concept, value pursuit and other spiritual and cultural contents.
University spirit is the unity of change and invariability. No matter how the manifestation of university spirit changes, the educational essence of university spirit will not change, and the core values of universities, such as humanistic spirit, scientific spirit and innovative spirit, will not change, and will always develop with the development of universities.
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The university spirit is first embodied in the spirit of innovation.
Innovation is the soul of a nation's progress, the inexhaustible source of a country's prosperity and development, and the most distinctive national endowment of the Chinese nation. "In the fierce international competition, only innovators advance, only innovators are strong, and only innovators win."
At present, China's "implementation of innovation-driven development strategy is a major strategy based on the overall situation and facing the future." The innovation drive is essentially a talent drive. Therefore, to take the road of innovation and development, we must pay attention to gathering innovative talents.
The prosperity of Britain, the rise of France and the development of Germany are also closely related to the importance these countries attach to the cultivation of innovative talents. The reason why the United States has become the country with the largest number of Nobel Prize winners today is that it has more than two-thirds of world-class universities, and its strength is due to the great contribution of innovative talents of universities to scientific research. Therefore, the spirit of innovation has become an inherent requirement of the development of contemporary universities, and it is an urgent task for universities to cultivate innovative talents.
Universities take it as their responsibility to cultivate talents, and creativity is precisely the core feature of talents. Eliot, a former president of Harvard University for 40 years, believes that the most valuable achievement of university culture is to make students have an open mind, a well-trained cautious thinking attitude, humble behavior, master philosophical research methods and fully understand the ideas accumulated by predecessors.
Einstein thought more directly. The goal of a school should be to cultivate individuals with independent actions and independent thinking, but they should take serving the society as their highest purpose in life. A society composed of individuals who have no originality, individual will and unified norms is an unfortunate society with no possibility of development.