On Middle School Education

Education —— Excerpt from Professor Zheng Qiang's passionate speech on polymer physics;

As a scholar, I'm not here to show off my mouth. With the help of this forum, I feel that the acceptance of knowledge by all walks of life is a subtle and gradual process. Let's talk about some of my views from the perspective of natural science. I ask several main questions:

First, China has been tackling key scientific research problems for decades. Among dozens of industrial categories, which belong to China's national industries or can be called their own industries? What scientific research projects are among the best in the world? What does China need now? I often go abroad, and my soul is baptized every time I go abroad. I can't wait to go to primary and secondary schools to talk the next day. Why? I just feel the urgent pressure and shame, especially when I went to Japan and South Korea, which belong to the East, and I felt even deeper after I went there.

The following four aspects have been blown the most in the past five years. Let's talk about superconductivity first, and it also started with Americans. I am a professor and teacher at Zhejiang University. The truth-seeking of Zhejiang University is priceless. At present, intellectuals in China have a weakness, that is, they don't like others to talk about their shortcomings, and they are even more unwilling to talk about their shortcomings. Today I am willing to expose my shortcomings. I should tell the truth when facing industrialists.

A lot of science and technology in China today is "tracking", which is also very difficult for professors in China, because life is hard, there is no money, and many leading comrades have no knowledge themselves. In order to get leaders and let them allocate some money, they must write some articles, reports and slogans as high as possible. For example, the education sector is now called "building a world-class university". Of the 10 colleges and universities set by the cross-century development plan of the Ministry of Education, 9 have been selected, and 10 has not yet been selected. In China, a developing country, you can build 10 world-class universities. How many universities are there in America? How many in Japan? Now the reality is: China can't rank among the top 200 universities in the world! How many can Asia rank? After visiting abroad, I feel that building Zhejiang University into a world-class university is like a capitalist ideal, and we will always work hard! However, we should not pursue such illusory goals and shout such slogans. There is still a big gap between us.

Now, several industries are moving in several directions, which is in line with the goals of China's science and technology industry in previous years. Like nano, it is just a concept of scale. Materials of various scales have their own uses, such as why do you use mud to make bricks? The scale of bricks is much larger than that of sand mud, because small grains of sand have no strength. How can we say that the colorful material world is only one nanometer? Therefore, no one pays attention to who put forward this slogan. In fact, we are trapped by Americans again! This is the same as an arms race. Superconducting Chinese Academy of Sciences is doing it; Gene Shanghai is doing it; Nano is being done all over the country, even the factory technicians are doing it.

Just now, Mr. He Xiuxiu talked about suspended trains. Don't think that China will be modernized just because the high-rise buildings in Shanghai are the same as those in Tokyo and Osaka. It is easy to build houses and bridges, but you have to look at the stage of national quality. People who come out of Japanese buildings are highly educated; And all the buildings in Shanghai are rich and uneducated! How can it be said that the country has been modernized? The World Trade Expo held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province is beautiful, but you can go to Xixi River to see it. If birds and swans can appear in Xixi River, Hangzhou will be modernized. It's not about wearing a skirt. What do we need most? Let's not put on airs with these things! What aspects should our country pay attention to?

These are my suggestions and slogans. It used to be said that "the ignorant are fearless", but now it is said that "the ignorant are fearless". Many enterprises invite people from Zhejiang Technical Supervision Bureau and Science and Technology Commission to have a meal and a drink, and he will sign it for you, and then threaten our professors to go there and stamp it for you, and then "fill the gaps at home and abroad" and "reach the international advanced level", and writing a paper is just that. As a university professor, I am deeply worried about this! This is not our responsibility, but the ignorance of our leaders, who advocate this mainstream.

I know the director or boss here has a hard time, because if you don't write such a report, you won't get the money and the project won't be approved. The same is true for professors, who write reports every day instead of settling down to do research in the laboratory. This is serious! Scientists say that nano is omnipotent and everyone can do it; The boss said: Nano has unlimited business opportunities. If you don't go up, you won't have a chance. So Ningbo should do it, Zhuji should do it, and Tiantai should do it. Everyone can do nano. Scientists know that nano-particles are unstable, and the materials they make gather together, but industrialists don't know this. Some people say that nano is so good that we have all become nano-people, but who can play basketball better? The basket must be put down. Can the role of nano-human be used for the treatment of cerebral thrombosis? You don't need to take medicine, just dig a small hole in your head and let the nano-people get in and clean it up.

I may be the only one who can't say these words well. Nano was badly fired in Zhejiang in the last month or two. I don't understand what "nano-refrigerator can prevent mildew": one is the concept of biology and hygiene, and the other is how nano-materials can prevent mildew. Therefore, we must pay attention to the fact that an ignorant person will deceive people. Because he is bold and dares to say anything, he says "ignorance is fearless". We know that he dare not say anything casually. This is misleading! Now people in the scientific community are puzzled: many units that have nothing to do with nano-research and have no nano-research are all working on nano-projects, opening up many new battlefields. As a business person, this investment is risky and the absolute return is very dangerous. The more high-tech things are, the less you should expect their market returns. This concept was put forward by me today.

What are people in the press doing? Comrades in the press like to write something new. I know that nothing new can't be written wonderfully. Misleading has something to do with the press. What the press heard was a movie, which described the propaganda in the form of a nano-edition written by a newspaper in Zhejiang. I especially warn you that this is a vulgar concept of a subject!

Let me talk about technology. The foundation of our national industry is extremely fragile. In recent years, I have been shopping in Japanese shops. Japanese socks, towels, low-grade sweaters and low-grade clothes are all made in China. Is this glorious?

In fact, what we call a foreign joint venture, what it introduces, has little real scientific and technological content. This is our innocence, that is, the innocence of our leaders!

For example, in a city as big as Tokyo, there are only six TV channels. How many in Hangzhou? This is very clear. What we are eating now is national food. We are not afraid of losing money or making money by opening so many channels. Japan can't.

I have been in Japan for 10 days, but I haven't seen any news about China, which is also the naivety of China people. When the Hiroshima Asian Games was held in Japan, which China won the gold medal on Japanese TV?

The Japanese like to play Go, but he doesn't know who Nie Weiping is. China needs internationalization now, but after internationalization, we don't even know who our ancestors are or what our national culture is, so I want to say, what have we gained economically and technically in the past 20 years of reform and opening up?

Yes, there is, but as a scientist, I have to think deeply: what have we got in high technology? Japan, South Korea and the United States basically transfer low-priced things that cannot be produced in their own countries to third world countries for production. You didn't get high technology. Do you think he will give you high technology? I won't!

For example, cars, we have so many joint ventures, but Japanese car technology, such as Toyota, is before the second and third generations, and he will not give you advanced! Why are Konica, Kodak and Fuji diving in China now? Is to squeeze through Le Kai, the only domestic film left in China! When Le Kai collapses, all foreign films will go up in price!

Now imported films sold in China are cheaper than those in Japan and the United States. This is dumping! People in China don't know this.

Why can't our university rank in the top 200? Because it is stipulated that there must be 800 FCA papers to enter the top 200. Why didn't Zhejiang University have money for scientific research 10? Professors write fewer papers. On average, there are no professors. Few professors like me can write five or six papers a year. Why? Professor China's average monthly salary is only 1.500 yuan, which is equivalent to 1.70 USD. What is the salary of American professors? How much is one of his articles worth? Professor China is cheap! American professors are expensive!

Why is this happening? So I'm worried, if this goes on, what will you have in five years or 10 years? After this vicious circle, we basically have no industry of our own! I don't agree with the saying that "buying a boat is not as good as building a boat, and buying a boat is not as good as renting a boat". What will it be like in a few years?

Let me talk about my personal views: first, the reality and development of our country is like this: we can do whatever we can't rely on, such as two bombs and one satellite; You can't do anything that can be introduced. Why?

The scientific and technical personnel of this enterprise strive for technological innovation. As long as the leaders of the planning commission in the region and the planning commission in the province take people to the United States for a day of inspection, buy some electrical products, sign an agreement with them, and then go to the United States for training 10 to introduce a line, this state-owned enterprise can be defeated immediately. This is the reality! Now many joint ventures sell things like this, without considering these deep-seated things. As everyone knows, this is the vicious circle of society!

Regarding telecommunications, I only say this to the telecommunications department: I can afford this phone bill! However, have you ever thought that you have earned money from consumers from your own perspective, but there are doctors among consumers, so don't you telecom people get sick? If you go to the hospital, will he sell you expensive medicine?

I joked, "Although I am a poor professor, I can't make money." I'm going back to check the list today to see how many students in my college and department are children of your telecommunications department, and all of them will fail next semester! If you want to pass, pay 5000 yuan per minute. "But I would never do that! If we do this, the world will be in chaos. As a member of society, we should have the idea that everyone is interdependent, so is our country.

But many people only think about themselves, as long as they make money, regardless of others. In that case, they may get a reward tomorrow. This is one of my views. The following questions are the most important: What kind of education does China need? What kind of talents does China need? What kind of technology does China need? What kind of industry does China need? What is education and learning for?

Recently, kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, universities, hotels, factories and mines have invited me to give lectures. This is what I should do for the society, and it is my duty. Besides, I have several roles: dean, department head, director, etc. They asked for a doctor. In fact, this requires the education level and personality quality of the same language, which is the most important thing!

Nowadays, many people do not pay attention to this aspect in the education of students. Primary and secondary schools are engaged in quality education. What is quality? English, computer, piano, can these be regarded as qualities? All the children on my floor are playing the piano. I heard a boy on the second floor crying and cursing his mother while playing To Alice. Mom and dad are tone deaf, but we must train our children to be musicians. The child can stand such a good sun. Can he sit indoors? Why is this? Kindergarten began to learn English at the age of 3. I don't know if you agree with this view. When I give a lecture at school, the students think that what I said is exactly what they want.

I think: language and computer are tools. Foreign language professors in China can't speak English as well as American farmers selling vegetables! What do you think of this problem? There are many Japanese doctors and German professors who can't speak English! How can you say that a person who can't speak English is illiterate? Language is a tool! You don't have that environment, how can he speak this language? For example, I started learning Japanese at the age of 35, and now my Japanese is excellent. But I studied in China for a year and sent a Japanese professor to teach me, but I couldn't learn well and I was very nervous. Because of my age, I learned that my grammar was wrong during the day and I spoke Japanese in my dream at night. At this time, my grammar was correct! After I arrived in Japan, I worked in a laboratory. I learned Japanese more smoothly than I did after working part-time for two months, mainly because there was no environment.

Therefore, if I am the minister of education, I want to reform two things: first, cancel the sixth grade. You are a graduate student who can't even pass the Chinese level. What are you doing in CET-6? Read the papers written by graduate students. I didn't learn my national culture well. I test English every day-Tick-tock: Toefl Tick-tock, GRE Tick-tock, and I got a high score in English. But which English paper I wrote passed by me? Can't get through! What can people trained in this way do? I didn't learn my major well at all!

I would like to remind you here that what I will talk about later is the use of talents, and your recruitment is always moving.

If you want to learn English well, what should you do? Speak English in the toilet? Need it? Want a computer? Say no, computers are.

Illiteracy, this is another misunderstanding! I'm a professor now, and I can't manage computers, but Zhejiang University does.

I especially admire and flatter me: "Zheng Qiang, your materials are so good, I will give you some computers that you can use."

Play, engage in materials, cooperate with us in the future, and get some light. "

The material world doesn't count. Can you count your stomach? Now China has developed some software, and many elites-young people have gone to work in the computer industry, and they can't become useful people themselves. What a pity! Unlike my professor who has been making materials, he is glorious! Pan Yunhe, a computer academician of Zhejiang University, ranks first in the country in computer science. The best students in Zhejiang University have gone to study computers, and I often appeal: This is harmful!

My classmate is selling vegetables and Chinese medicine in the United States now, so he can't be a useful material. Now they are very envious of my success in China. They have a little more money than me, but my life in China is better than theirs in the United States! This shows that this is not a problem that money can solve.

I went to Japan to study abroad and suffered a lot. This time, I met a dozen international students from China in a British university. They all complained to me: I only sleep 4 hours a day! There are many old professors in Zhejiang University. Husband and wife can't even walk, but the children are in America.

I think to what extent the national psychology of China people has been distorted in recent years! Foreigners don't understand and think that China people are sick: Why don't husband and wife stay together, one is abroad and the other is taking care of the children at home? Why do people in China suffer? ! Parents are old, do they need someone to serve them? Do you miss your parents abroad? The answer is yes, but I don't know why. !

5 Education-Speech (as a bar owners, I hope everyone can see what I sent).

In fact, people's abilities are different. Sweeping the floor well should be respected. Cleaning toilets can be cleaned and should be respected. You can't get a high degree easily. I want to remind you that this is not the case abroad. On the contrary, it is difficult for doctors in America and Japan to find jobs. Why? Because the boss is worried about money, Dr. Zhao wants to give him a high salary. What can he do? This is a specific problem. I wonder what the current director of organization and personnel are doing. Are they really choosing a son-in-law? What are people with such a high degree looking for?

Now, universities in China are proposing to cultivate high-level talents. It is wrong of me to say so. China's current education feature should be universal education, rather than training a few professionals. The last National Chemistry Olympiad was held in Hangzhou and was hosted by Zhejiang University. The school said that so many people from colleges and universities were invited to dig talents, and Zhejiang University also sent people to dig, so they sent me. I went to talk, and I said rudely that I was happy and heavy when I entered this door. You're ruining the children! Why? China's Olympic Games-primary and secondary schools called Olympic Games classes is a national system, just to get an honor in the world! In the United States, Japan and western European countries, there is only one school called "Play Again" for fun. A student who wins the Olympic champion represents China education, okay?

No, it can't represent the real situation in our country. In those non-key schools, how many children are gambling and playing video games outside! This is a misunderstanding of our education. I pointed out: if a professor of yours does such a thing, everyone here will be heartbroken! As parents, you should never spoil your children like this and treat them as treasures. In the Chemistry Olympiad, many professors from Tsinghua and Peking University came. Today, we are doing something harmful to children!

After my speech, the main poet asked the professors at the following universities to continue. They were afraid to speak on stage. Please ask yourself: Are we doing this right? The result of the Olympic Games in Zhejiang University is a phenomenon: those who learn well in middle school and can walk will lose their grades in the third year of college. How can children be graded when they are so young? In fact, they are basically on the same starting line, and there is still a long way to grow. The effort the day after tomorrow is the most important. Therefore, I always encourage children and students. There is a female classmate in our department. I feel sad to see that she doesn't laugh all day long just to get that high score and a high scholarship! I said: you are buying honor and aura with your youth, and your future soul will be traumatized! I hope she doesn't pay attention to falling from 1 to the second place next year and from the second place to the third place the year after. I am a strange teacher. I don't want her to go up, but I want her to go down. I'm saving her!

Yesterday, my children took part in running around the lake. I said to him, "Don't argue 1, run slowly." It's not that I don't want my children to improve, but what are these teachers doing? Let the children aged 5-6 and 7-8 run 4000 meters, in order to get the first place, they all ran out of health. I am short because I got up and ran in the morning when I was 5 years old, and my bones calcified prematurely. Now I understand science and know that children can't exercise a lot at will.

However, the first class of Qiushi Primary School every morning is to let all the children in the school go running in the street. Just after breakfast, I haven't exerted my energy yet. Energy needs to be used in the brain, and it takes a day of class. But morning running consumes energy, which is unscientific! Also, running on the road, car exhaust is very harmful to children's health. What is this education for?

I dare say one thing: many professors in Zhejiang University are educated like sons by primary school teachers. The first sentence of every primary school teacher's meeting is: "Dear parents and comrades, the children are yours and ours, but in the final analysis, they are yours!" Say these words every time, and then say, "You don't know science and education." I was thinking to myself: the child was sent to us after your education, and I am worried that the child's mind will be in trouble because you are so complete since childhood.

I think what I am most sorry for now is my classmates in primary school, middle school and university. I have been a cadre since I was a child and have been in charge of people. Up to now, my deepest regret is that my classmates who were in charge of me at that time, whether driving a taxi or doing anything, were very successful. Therefore, how to cultivate children and let them have a healthy psychology from an early age is more important than grades.

What's more, parents, because of their low academic qualifications, you always want your children to get ahead. I also know that some parents have to arrange for their children to participate in various studies in the morning, afternoon and evening on weekends, which completely drags their children down, and as a result, their children will be disgusted. A person who plays the piano too early, unless he is really a musician, will hate half of it. This is rebellious psychology. Therefore, you can't do this. Doing so is destroying talents. This is what I want to talk about today. I will talk about my own views on the cultivation of talents.

What should technology do? What should high technology do? If I were the Minister of Science and Technology, I would play what I should, just like Chen Jingrun. If Chen Jingrun were in China today, he would definitely beg, because he can't industrialize, and he can't speak English fluently or Chinese well. According to the current "standard", he is illiterate, what about the professor!

Japanese are the same as Americans. I told the Japanese: As a nation, whoever you love will throw atomic bombs at you. The Japanese just like black people and don't like China people. Now the highest scholarships in Japan are Americans, Europeans and Americans; The second is Koreans and people from Taiwan Province Province; The third is Pakistanis and Malaysians; The fourth is Indians and people from African countries; Fifth, it's China's turn.

I especially told our female professors and lesbians: don't speak a word of Japanese or English in front of the Japanese; Really, Japanese people will feel weak when they hear you speak English, especially girls in China. The Japanese don't know Longjing tea, only oolong tea, because of the advertisement of rising sun oolong tea. When I started advertising oolong tea, they found the six most beautiful girls in China. The Japanese drew a conclusion from this advertisement:

The beauty of women in China lies in drinking oolong tea. Therefore, the Japanese especially admire oolong tea and don't know Longjing tea.

Japan advocates Europe and America, and whoever can speak English is the boss. Japanese Prime Minister Mori Yoshiro doesn't know English, but in order to show that he knows English, he asked his secretary to arrange a procedure to greet Clinton in English when attending an intergovernmental cooperation meeting in Okinawa. But the Japanese speak poor English. When Mori Yoshiro met Clinton, he said, "Hello!" Say, "Who are you?" Clinton thought it was Mori Yoshiro who was humorous with him: I am obviously the president of the United States, doesn't he know? Why does he ask me this? I also told him a humor today: "I am Hillary's husband." ("I am Hillary's husband"). No matter what Clinton said, Mori Yoshiro was busy answering "too me". And "too me." Clinton thinks you joke too much. How did my wife become your wife? This has become a big joke in Japan!

Recently, we are running a high-tech park. As far as national investment is concerned, the opinion of our leaders is often to catch up with the world trend: to build a world-class country and reach a first-class level. I am ashamed to condemn myself to you: many of our professors in China have taken state money, just like children playing house. When they run out of money, they will write some articles, put them in drawers, and report to the leaders that it is useless: I am finished. This is very sorry for the country's money! To tell the truth, we need to find out what is fun, what is helpful to the enterprise and what we have not done well. The scientific and technological progress in Japan and South Korea is very targeted. Now there is a phenomenon: all entrepreneurs come to Zhejiang University and ask me, "Professor Zheng, what projects can make money now?" Give it to us! "In fact, you don't understand, the professor is completely out of the market and doesn't know what a market is! He is just playing games, the home of players, thinking of something new, and don't think that the professor has everything!

Of course, I can't blame you, because the development of productivity in China has not reached a high level of understanding among our bosses today. He Laoshi spoke very well just now. At this stage, if there are still fakes in China, we can't expect counterfeiters to have any advanced scientific and technological needs. He can make a profit. However, when China's economic order is truly perfect, counterfeiting can no longer survive! Now no one in Japan dares to make a fake. As long as there is a little fake, it will be over soon. One day, China will enter an orderly stage. If it is orderly, counterfeiters will certainly not survive. Whether an enterprise can survive depends on whether you have any unique skills. This move, first of all, is the characteristics of the product; The second is the scientific and technological content. Last time, I told Secretary Zhang Dejiang rudely: Zhejiang wants to build a strong economic province and a strong cultural province, but "big" does not mean "strong" and "rich" does not mean "powerful". Kuwait has plenty of money, and it is simple for Iraq to defeat it. I said: a strong economic province should have the following signs. I asked Secretary Zhang: First, how much of Zhejiang's current economic aggregate is scientific and technological? Secondly, how many big industries are related to the lifeline of China's national economy? Third, can Zhejiang's economy really withstand the day of the Asian financial turmoil? These Zhejiang provinces all have problems. The market in Zhejiang is very developed, but if I am a mainlander and it is convenient for me there one day, why should I come to buy it from you? There is a market now, because there are many fakes in Zhejiang market, either smuggling or selling fakes, which is how it has developed in recent years. If not, in a few years, Liaoning people only need to buy goods in Beijing. Why did you come to Zhejiang to buy it again? What if they don't buy it from you?

Now Zhejiang is called a big plastic province, and one third of the plastic products in China are produced in Zhejiang. Last time in Yuyao, a plastic science and technology conference was held. There are many suits in Zhejiang, such as Shanshan suit and Wahaha. However, please note:

Suits and fruit milk are not livelihood plans! The Nongfu Spring in Qiandao Lake is good, but where is the water? This is a bit of a problem. In addition, is Wenzhou's experience good? All right! But if I were the president, I wouldn't engage in Wenzhou experience all over the country. After all, Wenzhou's experience is that the national economy has been completely eaten by foreign countries. What is your capital? Compared with Japanese bosses, Wenzhou bosses' money is not money, so they eat it immediately, and the technical content is extremely low. I have been to Wenzhou several times and all I see are family factories. Can it compare with modern enterprises? In addition, dig doctors from the west and raise them with high salaries?