人文励志There will be no world.doc

There will be no world-class universities without an excellent humanities education. Great importance should be attached to all the students’ education in humanities so as to well establish liberal arts. Diverse subjects are supposed to fully develop according to their respective pace and inherent laws. “The pursuit of scientific truth, humanastic morality, and artistic beauty” serves as a principle in achieving unity of different academic branches. We have furnished the maximum education yet with the minimum funds. By the middle of this century, I stand firmly for my convictions that China must have become a powerful nation of world-class education. The responsibility of the university and the faculty is to truly stimulate all the students’ potential, enabling them to have solid foundation and broad horizons. More importanly, every student can be a great talent in leading China’s future advancement with their dynamic individuality and sense of cooperation. “To truly understand your own culture-no matter how you define it-requires personal knowledge of at least one other culture, one that is distinctly different from your own. Sometimes to compare one thing with another is helpful for us to understand it. For example, for a child to understand the color white, writing on a white paper with black pen make the white color conspicuous, thus leave the child a deep impression of white. However, is this method the same implemental when used to understand a culture? Probably not.To understand a culture, the most effective way is for one to live in it for a few time. Because the culture is unlike theories, knowledge, or ideologies which can be learned through oral or written teaching, but need more to be felt to understand. Say, the Chinese celebrate spring festival for new year, while the westerners celebrate Christmas. Even if a Chinese were told the origin or Christmas, the customs during Christmas, he/she cannot truly understand it unless he/she had experienced it