"Apply what you have learned, apply what you have learned" is an inscription by the famous mathematician Mr. Hua in 1984, which has a wide influence on the teachers and students of the whole school. This concept emphasizes the words "learning", "excellence", "application" and "creation", summarizes the school's pursuit of running a school, teachers' research and students' learning, and embodies the guiding ideology of advocating academics, pursuing Excellence and paying attention to practice and innovation. It not only inherits the essential connotation of "studious and pragmatic" inscribed by Mr. Cai Yuanpei for our school, but also embodies the spirit of the times of "seeking truth from facts, pioneering and innovating", and it is also a stable cognition and concept gradually formed by the University of Mining and Technology in its long-term running practice.
"Use" is the perfect combination of theory and practice and the embodiment of the value of running a university of mining and technology. Our school is an engineering-oriented school, which has long been committed to the research and application of engineering science and technology. Many scientific research achievements have played an important role in national economic construction and social development, especially in energy science and technology, and many achievements are at the leading level of international energy science and technology. The value of "use" is also reflected in the cultivation of students. On the one hand, we should strengthen the cultivation of students' application ability in teaching, on the other hand, we should guide students to effectively use what they have learned to repay the society and let them make more and better contributions to the society.
"Creation" refers to creation and innovation. China's Higher Education Law clearly stipulates that the task of higher education is to cultivate senior professionals with innovative spirit and practical ability. Innovative consciousness, innovative thinking and innovative ability are the basic goals of talent training in the era of knowledge economy. Over the years, our school has actively promoted the transformation of school-running mechanism, updated teaching contents, improved teaching methods, and gradually infiltrated innovative educational concepts in teaching practice. According to the characteristics and advantages of running a school, an innovative talent training model focusing on cultivating students' independent entrepreneurial personality has been gradually formed.
"Learning to be excellent is to be an official, and learning to be excellent is to be an official" embodies that the basic mission of a university is for students to learn and teachers to learn, which contains the theme of inheriting knowledge and exploring truth. It shows that the basic character of a university is to pursue Excellence, reject mediocrity, create excellent teaching style, study style and school spirit, and cultivate and bring up outstanding talents. It embodies the educational principle of unity of knowledge and practice, conforms to the campus spirit of "being eager to learn and innovate" and meets the requirements of the times of attaching importance to cultivating talents with practical ability and innovative spirit; It embodies the school-running characteristics of our school, which focuses on engineering education.