Wuhan University, former president Liu Daoyu been removed from an experience

 Wuhan University, former president Liu Daoyu been removed from an experience to break the education monopoly mm, the introduction of civic education [transfer]
figure file: Liu Daoyu, November 1933 Health, Hubei Zaoyang people. Communist Party members. Well-known educator, chemist, social activist .1977, the party members as the Ministry of Education and Higher Education Secretary; from 1981 to 1988 served as president of Wuhan University, China's institutions of higher learning was one of the youngest principals. in office, he first introduced a series of educational reform: credit, minor academic, late admissions system, tutorial system, student loans system, the system of academic leave, had a major impact at home and abroad by the Ministry of Education In 1988 there are differences between supervisors dismissed. former Wuhan University President Liu Daoyu the autobiography to explain the reasons for that year was removed from Wuhan University, former president Liu Daoyu
autobiography Disui portable, explosion 17 years ago was dismissed insider, afternoon, gray hair, dressed in trench coat Liudao Yu Guangzhou Book Center in the lobby, the audience broke into enthusiastic applause.
For many people, the name may be unfamiliar Liudao Yu, Wuhan University, and for children and words, 73-year-old Liu Daoyu is a legend in their hearts, a yearning. Liudao Yu as the Wu Dacheng to the field of education reform at the vanguard. the movie After Liu Daoyu written with his handwritten autobiography, class universities, the gap at least 30-50 years The first autobiography written for himself. In the seventies and eighties of last century, you are a man of the higher education sector in China. But in 1988, you leave the post of president of Wuhan University, which gradually fade from public view a decade . Why should you be ill seventies autobiography?
Liu: I have been through since the new China, the various political movements, it had been a For no more than give. This autobiography. Writing this autobiography is a kind of nostalgia for me and also my own a comprehensive and thorough introspection, memories of his life experienced by checking the main thing, to let everyone know that I am known side but also to let everyone know that I am the little-known side. is to give an account of my own, but also an account of the society.
note: In addition to your own personal summary of a life, but from the social environment, it is a not also make you want to openly express their views?
Liu: I out of this autobiography, I think, is now a need for educational situation. Now higher education is a hot public debate. this concern, the public awareness that education is one of the rejuvenation; second because the public has all sorts of discontent in China's education. Education is even a holy Pure Land, and now education is also corrupt. I feel very anxious. I think , for an intellectual conscience, I should come out to talk about the.
if President Chen Danqing
I will keep in mind: in the university education sector, this year did a lot of vibration out of the event, such as Tsinghua University professor Chen Danqing resignation, withdrawal, Tsinghua University, Yin Wang PhD, Professor He Weifang of Beijing University Law School graduate, and so Tingzhao. You see how these events?
Liu: I think that these people act like Chen Danqing China's university education out of a loss of confidence in the status quo upset. I understand them, they move is a brave move, because they keep his nose clean, do not want cheating.
if I have the words when the University President If they in my college, I would discourage them, ask them to leave, try to respect their wishes, to these professors, students and more flexible autonomy. Unfortunately, I did not see these professors, students, the school where a response to this, I am disappointed.
Ministry of Education should decentralization
mind: entrance examination in China has resumed nearly three decades, and now the public has a lot of criticism of the college entrance examination.
Liu: social development, reform is necessary. Now the college entrance examination system in the education sector also made some reforms, but I think it is embellished style, the key or from the roots. Ministry of Education should be decentralized, so that university admissions are autonomy, such as some key universities to own the title, self-enrollment. selection of candidates, can not just look at scores. Now that the economy is diversified, the test should also be diversified.
university president should be a professional educator
Reporter: university president in China is a special position. this year by a blog website in China, image closer to the officials. you think the ideal university president is what?
Liu: I now classified as the president of the China scholar, and two-hands are the principal type, because not only do academics, but also management business Therefore, it is necessary to keep Dr. cap, to be his official post. I think that a good university president should have a good academic background and humanities. But when he became president, he will be determined to no longer do their own professional research work, but should be a professional educator, master of education law. and how to be a good president to mobilize the enthusiasm of the staff? by promotion, by bonuses, which not; should grasp reform, reform of the contest was to bring in is a hero.
complex education reform is difficult to eliminate
Reporter: Ten years ago, some people say you are because the reform was too radical president dismissed from office. Now, you still hanging in the heart of reform.
Liu: Education Reform in the complex has been lingering in my mind. This is my idealism. I will put my book royalties donated to Liu Daoyu Foundation, the Foundation for China to do something for education reform. I reform in the education front the beach-goers. I think I would appeal to the education reform until the last moment of my life. get back!
Why was not an official or leave after the removal of a large weapons? why I do not want an officer? The reason is very simple, it is official and the scholarship is two channel, ; Punished Why am I here rather than leave? because I spent the romantic era of youth, the most valuable contribution to the prime time of life, experienced a golden age of reform in full swing. hh that the whole me, neither bring me down, also failed to topple me, the only means to take me away, if I am removed from the school, is not exactly their trick you in?
to identify the root cause of China's education crisis mm The focus of education reform: foster creativity
Reporter: When you took office as president of Wuhan University, the view that urgent reform is to cut what issues?
Liudao Yu: I was appointed as president of, completely unexpected. would have I resigned from the Ministry of Education official to return Luojia Hill (Wuhan University is located in the foothills Luojia mm. Correspondent Note), is to do my chemistry teaching and research business, did not think back not only did not get rid of administrative matters, but also I pushed to the principal's position. But since ancient times, Huashan road, took me to refuse to retreat. Since the newspaper said I was Revival, ten years revenge atmosphere. I only worship Cai, also worship Yinchu: University of Cai's independence, academic democracy, freedom of educational philosophy, is the world famous school of the University General, in his politicians is to seek happiness for the purposes of this life, and educators for Zeyi human pursuit of the ultimate concern. therefore always take into account the reality of the former, the latter often taking into account long ago. He wrote a large, a principal should have this look to the long-term prospects of national attention, there should be this independent spirit in pursuit of the truth, in the school for research and teaching to create free space.
second, is the focus on students creativity. when I introduced a series of education reform, to allow coming to the fore, allowing the skip is to the students in the system to adapt to the personality and interests, respect for the right to choose students for the emergence of creative talent, from the system guarantee is given.
implementation of Wuhan University, I was transferred in the school system, no referrals to any person, identified as president of my right to do so. This system is implemented, students can transfer into a department in the school turn professional, liberal arts can Huzhuan , outside can also be transferred to mm Peking University, Shanghai Tongji University, China Science and Technology, Wuhan Medical College and other schools have students go to Wuhan University. In all fairness, our academic standards and teachers do not catch them, but why do these students Wuhan University longing it? is because of our relatively free and democratic academic environment, an atmosphere of respect for the students aptitudes.
Third, to establish the school, participants; both the test of the effectiveness of the reform, and also those who rely on teaching. I spent a lot of time to participate in student activities, hospitality students, and students benefit communication mm This ideological rigidity to prevent me.
Reporter: , the principal's office at the time you have three requirements: all students can not detain a letter addressed to you; where students may not want to see you onto trains (but can be about time); where the student should inform you of events.
been removed from most Unfortunately, their dreams
Reporter: Do you know how to be removed from office when the?
Liu Daoyu: Since the day I choose to reform, there is no Preparation at back. I expect to my fate may have undesirable . Sure enough, my term of office is not yet full, suddenly, the way to remove my fax principal duties. I did not want an officer, principal duties of this I do not own nostalgia, if there are regrets, then I'm being developed mainly Wuhan University, the second decade of the reform plan, have not yet introduced, but so far I have not had time to practice, mm No one has made that vision come to it.
example, I want to change the Now we implement the division enrollment, in fact, is to increase the enrollment rate .1949 years ago and fifty years of liberal arts students in theoretical science, are you really interested in, such as Qian and Wu Han, who Why liberal arts? because they love. But After 1961, nothing major is to enter a higher school science, some physical and chemical basis of the number of candidates to consider themselves not strong, the university is not sure, so he turned to liberal arts. This has resulted in some students the quality of the defect.
Second, I want to reform the teaching of liberal arts. Arts to now stay in the expression of the teaching model, with virtually no formation of figurative, practical means of teaching. I was prepared in the Arts to establish quasi-five laboratories: the Department of Philosophy, established on the basis psychology and thinking science laboratories; economic model established in the School of Economics Laboratory; in law school to establish a mock court, an official with a civil rights trial, a judge, the presiding judge, clerk of the United States is such a complete set of preparation mm, and their first-class Law School have civil jurisdiction; established in Library and Information Science Laboratory of Information Engineering; mass media lab in the School of Journalism building, you can film and television work. This put the introduction of technical and technological means of liberal arts, arts education reinvented.
Third, if I focus on the mid-eighties on the reform of education system, then launch the second decade to come, is a teaching system, the curriculum reform. Over the years our courses have in is the importance of knowledge to impart, without attention to the teaching of scientific thinking, 90% of our courses are knowledge-based mm of this generation of students like you are the teacher to talk about an article topic, the structure! I would like to drastically reform the curriculum, the majority, at least half of the hours, to develop a scientific way of thinking.
can not be put into practice these ideas, is my greatest sorry. until now I did not see what the school think about these issues, but did not introduce reforms.
Why offend the person in charge of the State Education Commission and the Provincial?
Reporter: What is your reason for dismissal? in your book in writing, you are dismissed, the then director of the State Education Commission summoned in Beidaihe Tieying you, be sure your education reform, I hope you go to Beijing under the leadership of the State Council, an educational reform and development planning agencies, or select any of the university and then coming out as president. It was inferred that you be removed from office, may be a commonplace in China, the mystery of the personnel calculations. you how to analyze? those in power think that you rivalry?. Reporter: What is your reason for dismissal?
Liu Daoyu: causes are multiple: the reform idea of the differences, challenge the authority of the leaders of hh but I think the core issue is the conflict of interest. For example, who head the national education sector, to think that I am a threat to his position .1982, the Education Minister Jiang Nanxiang who have served, who took over ? the CPC Central Committee Organization Department of the Ministry of Education, the cadres above the Commissioner to conduct a also air sick. Of course, I strongly do not want to, when I went to the Central Organization Department and to state that I have been in 1979 when the Ministry of Education for a return to the , and do not appoint me, lest I have a passive, too passive you the Central Organization Department.
This is the first time the manager felt his position threatened me: I am on the age of ten years younger than him, of the masses I'm taller than him the prestige, of education of the I more than he .1985, the central Ministry of Education changed to make a half-grade higher than the Ministry of State Education Commission, said one of the personnel programs concurrently by the Board of Education Vice-Premier Wan Director I was the first deputy director, the news has spread very widely, I learned, once again to the Central Organization Department to state my reasons not to hold the job. I am very pleased the decision was another set of central human resources solutions, but I feel competent again bit his threat.
on reform ideas, and they told me I can not go, there have been three conflicts. one on the openly say things like credit ah, the U.S. credit system failed to engage the Soviet Union not to pursue the credit system, the satellite on the day! there are times he and I argued that: Where is that from the U.S. credit system failed l r? far as I know the U.S. is still the credit of the university, and more development. As for the Soviet Union not to engage in credit, we do not say that the credit system is the only university-trained professionals system can test thing. how could cultivate a To develop the creative quality of the students for their future work in the creative basis; not rule out a small number of outstanding students in the learning period can be a creative achievements, is not one student published literary, academic papers? Do you think University IV not in training, view of the world? If students can not do, is not we can not mention it this way?
the third time, the political counselor about the problem. hundred students with a political counselor of the system is first in 1962 by Tsinghua University, spread across the country, is dry, he does not feel at ease; election business is not strong teachers to do, he did not prestige .1985 year, I will cancel the system. That was defiance ah! Board of Education in charge accused me of saying: you canceled the political counselor was to weaken the ideological and political work. I said to strengthen the ideological work is not the form of focusing on results, we will be Oxford, Cambridge tutorial introduction to require teachers to have each instructor with more than ten students will be teaching and educating the system of this is to strengthen the ideological work.
this argument several times, although he lost the reason, but he feels his authority has been challenged, bear a grudge against me.
Reporter: Wuhan University in Hubei owned by the State Education Commission and dual leadership of Provincial Committee, Hubei Provincial Committee of the attitude?
Liudao Yu: I am the main person in charge with the Hubei Provincial Party Committee have also been conflicts. It is a matter in May 1984, Wuhan University and Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric to build a house, accounting for 80 acres of reservoirs Yangjiawan fight, a fight to migrant workers, both sides were injured. I had a meeting in Shanghai, came back after the criticism that the relevant departments of our schools. Party Secretary is the secretary of the water from the Graduate School, and I do not know how he reported, the secretary to convene military leaders on both sides of Congress and the homes and infrastructure, water, person in charge of the meeting.
It was a Sunday, the meeting was short notice, I do not know in advance. Tongji early in the morning I went to Hankou the hospital to visit the famous historian, Professor Tang Changru, participants hospital consultation about his illness. home, the family that you go up to the provincial meeting. I rushed to the first review that has not given due to late. Province Committee Secretary angry: you big arms go too far, forcing the people of Hydraulic and Electric College, students and staff had no way to go! I said, you do not meet the actual words, are five or six thousand Hydropower Institute could not walk every day? he said that the land who did not give you two, there was to be back! I said, the policy of the central support and education, expand the development of land for the University, you want to take away the land belonging to the school, is contrary to the spirit with the central . If you have to close, I reserve the right to appeal directly to the central. He said the land is not your it! I said, we checked, Wuhan University in 1934 bought from farmers, the lease has preserved. He said the KMT's lease, the Communist Party does not recognize! I said, carry on bad remark. Hong Kong is the Qing Dynasty was forced to sign unequal treaties ceded to Britain, after 1949 we did not ? We are historical materialists it! he was speechless with anger, said: secretary presided over the meeting, I was party members, is the deputy party secretary of Wuhan University, is the provincial party committee members, I was just exercising their rights to express their views. son, was sent to the central Hubei Province to contact the head of the entire party. I said, if the conflict occurred in the two farmers, the production team leader will first listen to the Party's reason, listen to the Party's statement of work to do back to back, almost get another to join the mediation. Party Secretary to booing, the leadership of the two universities to get together in public to pressure us to Support College mm production team leader level that not even such thing!
the words in my school also said that the province was reported to play a small, secretary, deputy secretary flies into a rage, saying that Liu Daoyu arrogance came to a head, even as production team leader, said party secretary level! Peiyun, deputy director of the State Education Commission subsequently asked me if I said, I said: I mean, but I was especially his handling of this dispute to the level of disputes.
the total failure of the seeds of education is the policy mistakes
Reporter: In your dismissal today, after seventeen years Chinese education, I admit, I thought the Chinese education authorities are confused. On the surface, management change for several sessions, are not Reform of your practice, your philosophy of education, nor even prevent you from those who created the first modern education system, in universities promotion, implementation. but they thought the core of your education, training creative talent mm, are avoided; They are looking forward to the future with you, it seems diametrically opposed to drift apart. Education in how you look? education in China in the end do you think went wrong?
Reporter: Do you see how the educational status quo? China's education in the end What went wrong?
Liu Daoyu: Today, both the general public or the majority of intellectuals concerned about education, education has become hot on everyone's lips, which embodies the people's concern for education, but also reflects the public on dissatisfaction with education.
University merged, leaving upside down; university enrollment, which makes people angry resentment days; graduate, undergraduate lower quality, academic corruption is spreading, scholars plagiarism plagiarism to be reported; Professor heap but the quality is the number of Pa serious decline, some people doing regular jobs, part-time fishing out extra rife. academic achievements can not be said, but the real original, to the great inventions with foreign comparable results, almost no hh the current crisis, I think can be summed up in one sentence : University lost the idea of losing the right direction, lost the rigorous style of study.
What is the reason all of this? a political system, the lack of democratic checks and balances and oversight mechanisms; there is a market economy led to rapid growth of consumption, it is all to the money; from an academic perspective, there is no freedom and democracy, the health impact of academic development. Now, China is not only a country without religion, no religion is simply a country. we were young also believe in Marxism, faith to serve the people, faith devotion, and now have no faith in what is believed the money. Money has become the most wanted people only want to, things will never meet. Western capitalist development has also been a wealth of early enrichment process, why did not China is such a mess? their Christian played on people's moral standards and checks and balances function. China does not have this thing, what checks and balances are gone.
root catch where? I want to think about it, may have to the highest educational authorities attributed to errors in decision-making management.
how to do it. University merged Although many people were against, but still want to force mergers, has been together from the next, proposed to the education sector to build aircraft carriers l r, who is awarded the brand? l continuous upgrading of the education sector set off heat r , secondary upgraded to college, college become a university, the University Hospital, Department of hh who upgraded into a nod? building of? build More than high school enrollment capacity of the target, who is issued?
now actively participated in many major universities, This is not the engage in Science and Technology Park trading? This is the most dangerous sale of the most horrible! predatory buying and selling in this country, teachers in the sale of the fraud, the people in the buying and selling overwhelmed.
create centennial celebration of Beijing University when the slogan, followed by a gradually formed naturally. world-class university is not a pole can be erected overnight to see the shadow, it is long-term, or even the accumulation of a century.
education policy mistakes is when to begin it? generally the early nineties of the last century, it was a watershed. such as University of merger, the schools, in accordance with the laws of education. However, the early nineties after the university president is wind has always been the habit to follow the trend below the top of a windy field of education more and more serious problem.
think of education, I wanted to use , and he is not recognized; education is clearly a problem, the education authority is not recognized, but feel good about themselves, complacent. This is very dangerous, and suffer in silence, in the end can lead to serious illness, and now China's education is a patient suffering from edema Without reform there is no way out. from the source to change from mm from the leading system reform at the Ministry of Education. The key to decentralization of the Ministry of Education, vigorously downsizing, changing functions, can no longer maintain the unified leadership of the education system, and can no longer planned economy way of thinking, through the control, allocation of resources to lead the national education. the unified leadership structure, once the above decision is wrong, that is, from top to bottom overall, long-term in nature, the above decision was wrong, followed by the implementation should follow the following What was wrong. If a university independent schools, and above you are wrong, you can not perform the following thing.
1985, the CPC Central Committee passed the education reform documents, I attended that meeting, the document is emphasized decentralization, But now largely implemented. The United States is the world's great powers of education, but not like China that the U.S. Department of Education. the United States was only established in 1980, the Ministry of Education, it has only two functions: First, the Education Information and Statistics, for the country to provide information; Second, the Education Equality checks and balances, the other is whatever. China do, too right of the Ministry of Education, basically control all the resources of Chinese education, which the planned economy period, and control over all economic resources of the State Planning Commission is back things. Therefore, the Ministry of Education must be decentralized, from recruitment, research plans, teaching plans, textbooks, appointment, removal and infrastructure, all hh awards to decentralization, and some major universities mm you look into Harvard, Yale, not all control their own Well, it is owned by the Ministry of Education officials for now? some provinces mm into the public university as the United States, mainly the states control. decentralization, the State Department of Education is to draw up regulations, the development of macro policies, responsible for the checks and balances.
Reporter : The authorities may fear it would jeopardize the overall control of the young students, not the light had changed the education sector.
Liudao Yu: Yes. A reporter said to me: , even more than science and technology system, more conservative than the cultural system. College Students can get married, the Ministry of Education send a text. a constitutional, a marriage, you end the Ministry of Education College of the pipe is not to get married? how can you control? also made a administration of the Ministry Nursery! because it is planned to manage the economic way of thinking of education, so a show of hands every move she makes a mistake!
another example, enrollment, only 5% of the admissions to the University the right to control their own 95%! Peking University, Tsinghua enrollment, they can not make decision? require them to 5% of the students, things, your country bugger. but also provides that education, no hope.
Second, to implement the . Now the University is not properly run, the principal part of the responsibility to, although they are hard. I'll open up to, Professor of scholarship, the principal running the schools, to be selected by the scholarship of the people who rule the school, principals to the power of selection by the party's organization department transferred to the university professors, they only know how to choose what kind of president. academic reputation does not equate with leadership ability, the special educator, learning at home and the two are completely different line of business. Also, can not the President as an official, can not give him a stated period, the provisions of the administrative level. as long as he did a good professor to accept him, he can stay here long. four years to graduate, a short time, how can you test his training of students, OK? I figure a well-known U.S. university presidents, well done usually in about 20 years, president of Harvard, Eliot worked for 40 years. Yale Levin, president of the University of Yale mm large force would have formed with our sister school, he worked for 13 years, is doing the best. Levine, did not bring over 13 years, a graduate student, never taught a lesson, he absorbed in When the president.
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