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Why Post Grades?

History of Science & Scholarship2010.06.22
Why Post Grades?
The course in the history of science has always posted the grades for homework and the final exam online. When I took it back then, I checked my grades on Professor Wu’s personal homepage, whereas now they are usually posted on the BBS. Every time grades are posted, there is inevitably some questioning: by making classmates’ information public like this, what about their privacy and so on? Here I might as well explain the reasons for doing it. First of all, the very notion of “privacy” is strange. Why are grades a student’s privacy? I have only heard that the exam scores of primary and secondary school students cannot be…
scholarship education Peking University Wu Fei
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2010年6月22日
The Debate between Science and Metaphysics in Educational Modernization: The Case of Zhang Junmai

Enlightenment & the Spirit of Freedom2009.12.30
The Debate between Science and Metaphysics in Educational Modernization: The Case of Zhang Junmai
【Abstract】To define the “Science-CXuan debate” in China’s modernization process as either a dispute between the ancient and the modern, or between East and West, misses the point. The Science-CXuan debate reflects a certain tension internal to the process of modernization itself. What the Xuanxue faction, represented by Zhang Junmai, was proposing was precisely the demand of modernization, or “enlightenment.” At the core of enlightenment lies the education of national character, the cultivation of a free will. What Zhang Junmai was concerned with was not whether science could explain a worldview, but how to cultivate and establish a new worldview. And the establishment of a new worldview, or a new culture,…
China education paper human nature
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2009年12月30日
Miscellaneous Thoughts on Marching in Step

Culture & Public Commentary2009.08.11
Miscellaneous Thoughts on Marching in Step
Let me begin with a story. Here’s how it went: this morning I went to campus to watch the formation training, and stood outside the fence around the gymnasium watching. Beside me was a middle-aged man who seemed to be visiting Peking University; he picked up his camera and took two photos, and immediately a thug-looking fellow came running from far away, yelling for him to delete the pictures. The man obediently complied and left. Seeing this, I then took out my own camera to shoot as well, and sure enough that fellow immediately charged over again, shouting for me to take out my camera and delete the photos. Of…
China freedom commentary education
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2009年8月11日
My Biological Clock Has Been Abnormally Disrupted Lately…

Life & Notes2008.12.01
My Biological Clock Has Been Abnormally Disrupted Lately…
I say “recently,” but in fact it’s been bad ever since this semester started… The key problem is that the class schedule this semester always seems somehow out of harmony… ——Classes on Monday and Tuesday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., on Thursday from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., on Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, and the occasional or not-so-occasional Keke Forum on Friday afternoons. At first glance, afternoon classes seem most suited to me. I can get up at noon and go straight to school; after lunch I can read for a while and then go to class, and after class I can even have dinner before…
everyday life education
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2008年12月1日
Seven Subjects of Moral Education (How to Do Moral Education?)

Culture & Public Commentary2008.07.17
Seven Subjects of Moral Education (How to Do Moral Education?)
Moral education is not the task of the university. By the time they enter college, most students are already adults, and their individual character has long since taken basic shape. A university ought to build a stage on which all kinds of different personalities can coexist, guiding each character to shine in its own distinctive way; it should not then try to remake students’ personalities. Primary and secondary education are different. Primary and secondary schools, together with parents, bear the mission of cultivating and shaping children’s character. The “not yet complete” in “minors” refers precisely to the fact that their personality and character have not yet taken shape, and their…
philosophy culture freedom education
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2008年7月17日
Choosing Peking University, Taking on Freedom

Enlightenment & the Spirit of Freedom2008.05.22
Choosing Peking University, Taking on Freedom
The original writing plan for “Yanyuan—The Four Schools” had stalled for a long time because I shut myself away and hid from the blog. Now that graduation is practically upon me, it’s time to restart this task. Just then the student union was organizing a “My Yanyuan Memories — A Commencement Essay Collection for Peking University’s Class of 2008 Excellent Graduates,” asking each department to nominate writers. Although I do not like taking part in essay contests, especially those initiated by official bodies, I was going to write something anyway. So I might as well take part. There was also a call for submissions from 《Communist Youth Garden》, and perhaps…
philosophy scholarship freedom education
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2008年5月22日
Things This Semester

Life & Notes2008.02.21
Things This Semester
The graduating thesis is really a minor matter; after all, writing papers has already merged into daily life. The key point is that, for various reasons, this semester I must take 10 credits of natural science courses, and I must also launch a decisive campaign against English. This means that my way of life this semester will definitely no longer be “ordinary”; I’ll have to live in a way I never have before. At first I wanted to take biology as my science course. On the one hand, it might be of some use for my future specialization; on the other hand, it might be a bit easier to get…
everyday life education mathematics university
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2008年2月21日
The “Exchange Meeting Between New and Old Students” Is Really Depressing

Life & Notes2007.09.26
The “Exchange Meeting Between New and Old Students” Is Really Depressing
I had long been thinking about this year’s new-student/alumni meet-and-greet. I missed last year’s, and because I had been in seclusion for a long time, I had had almost no contact with the juniors and sophomores over the past year. In particular, I barely knew any of the class of ’06, and even the classmates in my own department were mostly unfamiliar faces. I really felt a bit guilty about that. In the last year of my undergraduate life, after thinking it over and over, I decided I should at least go see people. This was probably the only group activity I have主动参加 recently — because it seemed that if…
everyday life education social media
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2007年9月26日
First Entering Yanyuan

Life & Notes2007.09.01
First Entering Yanyuan
It’s that time of year again for new-student registration. As usual, I won’t be going to welcome the freshmen tomorrow, though I’ll probably go take a look at the lively atmosphere on campus. Back when I came to register, I didn’t see any senior students coming to greet us either. After handing in my materials, I headed straight for the dormitory. I suppose there are probably more seniors involved in welcoming freshmen now—especially the sophomores who have just come back from military training. If military training and freshman welcoming hadn’t conflicted back then, I definitely would have gone to welcome the freshmen when I was a sophomore too. Thinking back…
everyday life education Peking University autobiography
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2007年9月1日
At Last, All the Various Delays Have Been Settled

Life & Notes2007.08.27
At Last, All the Various Delays Have Been Settled
All Kinds of Procras——————tination Have Finally Been Resolved This summer, all sorts of things that should have been finished long ago, or should have been started long ago, kept getting delayed… delayed… First is my magnificent thesis. In the plan, by this moment it should have reached the final-draft stage, but the reality is that the reading project has not even systematically begun yet… I can only buckle down in the next week or two! (Of course… even during the period of idleness, there was not absolutely no progress; at least I did think about some questions…) This matter was delayed for about a month and a half. Second is…
everyday life education Peking University report
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2007年8月27日