What kind of people do college teachers?—— Reading "Stone" feels

The real university teacher is actually such a person: you do n’t need to check in, do n’t need to evaluate, you give them spare time, and they will inevitably go to study, write, or communicate with students in class. The important thing is that the university wants to find such a person to accommodate such a person. A university has found enough people such. In fact, the university can basically "do nothing", or only one service management, but it can still become a good university.

The university is actually a "shelter", which is the "asylum" of such people: these people are powerless, or they are unwilling to compete outside the world. They do not want to compete in politics and business. The "abandoned children" outside the world, but they have to survive. The university is a place to let them live according to their wishes.

——He Huaihong

"What kind of people do college teachers?" Are there any people who are mysterious and even interested in this issue? The current university teacher is like "crossing the river". Isn't they similar to people outside the campus? Moreover, this profession has long lost the halo of the past. Almost all the occupations in the modern world have gone through a process of "removing charm". This change in China is even more intense. The title reflects one aspect of this process, although this is not all the changes.

The novel of a professor and writer John William in the United States, "Stone", wrote about the experience of a university teacher in the first half of the 20th century.

Stone is the son of a farmer in central United States. At the beginning of the last century, his parents worked hard on the increasingly barren land and had a difficult life. He had been in school since he was a child and helped his parents to work. At the age of 19, he was a bit humping. He may spend the peasant's life like his father, but one day his father talked to him the longest, although it was a few minutes of words, saying that he "pondered" to let him go to college. As so on, he brought $ 25 at home and came to the University of Missouri Agricultural School.

Then, it may be a literary teacher touched him. He stopped the courses of the Agricultural College, and began to take the courses of the history and philosophy. He also learned ancient Greek and Latin. Later, he was lucky enough to stay in school as a teaching assistant. After publishing a book, he received a lifetime teaching position, but it was not a positive professor until the eve of retirement. He also became a daughter, although he had not harmed his wife for a long time; he involved in campus politics, and he had not dealt with a department director for a long time. He had a few good friends and had an affair with an unknown heart. Teaching has become more and more attractive, and even becomes a legend, but that's it. Valuable things that have been published in text may affect people for many years, but the infection generated by the lectures is often the destruction of people. On the eve of his sixty -year -old retirement, he discovered cancer. When he left, people gradually forgot him.

Is he a mortal? It can be said yes, but not. He is neither the kind of creative genius; nor a noble saints, or a teacher in all aspects. He is a good person who is responsible, although some things are not particularly wise. However, from him, we can still find some different places, especially some of the characteristics that are very suitable for university teachers.

In the freshman class, when his British literature Introduction Teacher Sloon read the 73rd poem of Shakespeare's 14 -line poem:

You may see this season every year in me

Yellow leaves may fade, or three or three two

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There must be something in his heart. However, when the teacher asked him the meaning of this poem, he could only say "meaning ..." again and again, but he couldn't say anything. But his heart must have some deep movement, which led him to abandoning agriculture and turned to humanities later, otherwise he would not make such a choice. But he was only moved at that time, and he couldn't express this kind of movement clearly, let alone move others. He later got a lecture through more learning and understanding, more training and practice. Can also move the ability of others.

So, as a university teacher -Sorry, I refer to the real university teacher here. They must reach a certain number of aims in the university and are in the position of comparison. —————

First, they have a kind of ability to be moved and even moved by others. First of all, they can discover and appreciate the beauty and truth behind the work or work. Second, they can convey this movement to others in verbal or written language. This is not necessarily through their own unique creation, but they can at least understand this creation. Some of them can also move others by creating, such as the author of this novel, Williams; some are not mainly through the creation, but to move others by teaching, such as the protagonist of this novel Satona.

Second, they also have a love for teachers' work and research work itself, as Slun, a literary teacher in Stone, said: "The premise is that you have to like this from the heart." Of course, they must also consider Life, to consider supporting their families, but they also have a motivation for their work to love, that is, they have an automatic force. They are not only used as a means to love knowledge, but they are also true and beautiful in it. Therefore, the real university teacher is actually such a person: you do n’t need to check in, do n’t need to evaluate, you give them spare time, and they will inevitably go to study, write, or communicate with students in class. The important thing is that the university wants to find such a person to accommodate such a person. A university has found enough people such. In fact, the university can basically "do nothing", or only one service management, but it can still become a good university. This is to talk about the nature of the university. People have always said that universities are where talents are cultivated and even cultivated "national pillars" and "cultural elites", saying that the university should be a student -oriented position; Essence Stone's friend Master Stes once once solemnly discussed the "essence of university" he understood. He said that the university is actually a "shelter", which is the "asylum house" of some people: these people are weak, these people are weak, these people are powerless, these people are weak, and these people are weak. Or do not want to compete in the outside world, do not want to compete in politics and business, or even the losers who are competitive in the outside world. They are "abandoned" in the outside world, but they have to live. A place to survive, "university exists for the abandonment of this world." University is not only a development place for all types of elites, but also a shelter in the "incompetent generation" outside the campus, even like the incompetent generation, or even looks like it looks like The elderly institute is really a bit weird, and it is even more weird to cultivate various elites from such incompetent generations.

But this may not be weird. The outside world is a utilitarian world, a world that is mostly dealing with things and power, but the nature or core of the university is not the case. The movements and love mentioned earlier are non -utilitarian, intangible, non -means, that is, they touch the spirit, the purpose of knowledge and truth itself. Those who can be aware of the purpose themselves come to teach knowledge in college, and even create knowledge, which may be the best.

Of course, the university teachers mentioned above may not necessarily become the creator, but they are at least the inheritors of the spirit and the inheritor of the salary. They touched the students and they touched each other. The deepest student may become a teacher. Over time, it has formed a inheritance.

Are they happy? of course. How many people can only use their work as a means of getting rich or making a living, but they are doing a kind of work in itself. They will get the greatest pleasure because of this job, and then their guarantee is to guarantee Essence

He still takes Stone as an example. He does have many misfortunes. His head director has suppressed him for a long time; his wife and his life are very harmonious -his wife is actually a bit of artistic temperament, but after all, the two of them are in the end. The personality is incompatible or prepared for marriage and is always in the Cold War; this Cold War even affects his child: his daughter who is very talented, but also needs to protect his daughter later and drink. But he finally reached a compromise with the head of the department, and he reached a greater reconciliation with his wife. His life is basically happy. He has few but very good friends. He attracted many students. He has pursued it enthusiastically, loved, and has been loved. And the most important thing, he came out of the field and found the work that he loved his heartfelt heart -university teacher. Therefore, Stone will say at the farewell dinner of retirement: "I have taught for nearly forty years at this university. I don’t know, what else can I do if I don’t have a teacher ..., I want to thank you Everyone, let me teach. "

But we don't know how the university will evolve under the pinch and erosion of the external world's money and power in the future. How to keep universities always retain such a group of people may become critical. Stone thinks that the proud student of the department is "the world outside", "We can't let him come in. Because we have done this, we become like this world." I don't doubt this truth. , But a little doubt about the specific objects referred to. Regardless of the student, the director of the department does not seem to be "outside", but also a person who is "sheltered" by the university. In other words, even if it is a person who is known as a college teacher, he still fights. Moreover, due to the different understanding of the concept of truth, goodness and beauty, the struggle may be more stubborn, so they may also exclude each other. This is of course unfortunate, because they still have to fight against the real outsiders outside the world and universities. The advantage is that some ideological debates and struggles will promote the development of knowledge, although such a struggle is best to always be limited to the field of ideas.

From: academic faction

Author: He Huaihong

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