PKU should stress books, not billionaires
北大不出大師出富翁 喜從何來
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![Should we feel proud when our top universities' goal is to produce rich businesspeople? [File photo] 如果高等學府教育的目的是培養富翁，我們還會引以自豪嗎](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20111228/000cf1bdc9db1064aba903.jpg "Should we feel proud when our top universities' goal is to produce rich businesspeople? [File photo] 如果高等學府教育的目的是培養富翁，我們還會引以自豪嗎")
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Should we feel proud when our top universities' goal is to produce rich businesspeople? [File photo]
如果高等學府教育的目的是培養富翁，我們還會引以自豪嗎？ |
| When it comes to advertising campaigns, Harvard University never publicizes its billionaire graduates. Instead, it emphasizes the ranks of Nobel Prize winners and American presidents it has trained. Harvard has produced so many important political and academic figures over the past several hundred years because it grasps the basic principles of education. Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard when he was in the third year of university. Without a doubt, Gates is richer than all of the 79 billionaires mentioned above. But Harvard never uses him as a publicity tool. |
哈佛大學的宣傳是說他們的學子中出了多少個諾貝爾獎得住，多少個總統；沒有宣傳出了多少個億萬富翁。正是因為人家牢牢把握住教育的根本原則，所以人家才會幾百年來做到真正的名副其實的人才輩出！要說富有，哈佛一個輟學的比爾?蓋茨就比這79個加起來還牛；可是哈佛大學從來沒有拿比爾?蓋茨來粉飾自己。 |
| There is a phenomenon in China's film industry that if the plot for a movie seems too bland, directors simply insert a vulgar love story. It seems a similar phenomenon has now cropped up at Peking University. If the university fails to cultivate enough academic or political elites, it simply counts the number of rich graduates it has produced. We are at the precipice of losing our educational roots. |
當今中國影視界流行這樣一句話：“戲不夠，情來湊。”北京大學是不是也已經淪落到“大師沒有，富翁來湊”的境地！嗚呼，教育之淪亡不遠矣！ |
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A university should not pride itself on the number of rich graduates it churns out. The ultimate purpose of education is to cultivate true talent. On one hand, these talented graduates should have the capacity to improve people's lives. On the other, they should be able to upgrade China's international status. Education officials should take a serious look at the regulations of the Imperial University of Peking drafted by Liang Qichao. It is not too late to correct our mistakes.
(China.org.cn by Guang Qian July 5, 2011)
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出幾個億萬富翁猶“筑室”，小數也；大學教育，旨在出內以修政富民，外以強國雪恥的人才，大數也！中國各級教育之主政者當三思；并認真學習、實踐梁啟超的《京師大學堂章程》亡羊補牢，或可有望。 |
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