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A New Beginning That Is Increasingly Disappointing

Life & Notes2006.07.29
A New Beginning That Is Increasingly Disappointing
Nowadays young people…… why are they all so practical, so mature? Lately I’ve begun interacting again with the incoming class of 2006 in the Philosophy Department. I have never lost my enthusiasm for wandering around the Weilai Beida Ren community; I like interacting with new students. One reason I like wandering around the Weilai Beida Ren community is this: my own entrance into Peking University, into the Philosophy Department, was really a matter of pure chance, and for that I especially need to thank one teacher in Peking University’s admissions office. I think the best way to express gratitude is precisely this: in a certain sense I too do work…
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2006年7月29日
A Casual Recollection of My Growing-Up Years: Donggezhi Middle School

Life & Notes2006.07.26
A Casual Recollection of My Growing-Up Years: Donggezhi Middle School
——————————————（continued from previous）—————————— Dong Gezhi Middle School had its predecessor in Puming Normal School. We were the second cohort of students admitted by Dong Gezhi. When we were in school, there were still a few cohorts of the original Puming Normal School students, and several of the teachers had even done their practicum at our place. Principal Fu of Dong Gezhi had been the vice principal of the original Gezhi Middle School; after leaving Gezhi he wanted to strike out on his own and build something of his own, and thus Dong Gezhi Middle School came into being. At that time we happened to catch the first round of abolishing…
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2006年7月26日
A Casual Recollection of My Growing-Up Years (Part Two: Cao Guangbiao Primary School)

Life & Notes2006.07.13
A Casual Recollection of My Growing-Up Years (Part Two: Cao Guangbiao Primary School)
——(continued from the previous articleCasual Reminiscences of My Growth Experience (Part One: Before Fourth Grade of Elementary School))————— At the beginning of the first semester of fourth grade, the math-competition training for cross-grade participation gradually began to intensify. (Students like me who relied on competition math to dodge the pressure of the lower-stakes exams, the middle school entrance exam, and the college entrance exam may have borne less spiritual pressure when facing the big exams, but the academic pressure was by no means light; this bowl of rice was not eaten for nothing, after all…) Naturally, this would have some effect on regular schoolwork. In fact, from a certain point…
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2006年7月13日
A Casual Recollection of My Growing Up (Part 1: Before Fourth Grade in Elementary School)

Life & Notes2006.07.06
A Casual Recollection of My Growing Up (Part 1: Before Fourth Grade in Elementary School)
The memories from before elementary school have grown too blurry; when I try to recall them, it feels as if I’m recounting someone else’s life. When I was little, I changed kindergartens twice, but I hardly ever actually went—mostly I just hung around at home. I really was too spoiled rotten back then. Because I was overindulged, my health was terrible as a child; because my health was terrible, I was indulged even more… At home, the division of labor was very clear when I was young: my father was responsible for earning money, my mother for my education, my grandmother for cooking, and my grandfather for taking care of…
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2006年7月6日
Education, Reform, and Egalitarianism

Culture & Public Commentary2006.04.13
Education, Reform, and Egalitarianism
A while ago, the presidents of Renmin University and other universities raised the issue that the government’s policies toward Peking University and Tsinghua University are too heavily tilted in their favor. The government’s preference for Peking University and Tsinghua is indeed very obvious, showing up not only in financial support but mainly in the enormous tilt of admissions policy. This tilt in admissions is especially evident in Shanghai’s college entrance examination system: in Shanghai, Peking University and Tsinghua are the so-called “zero-choice” option, separate from the other preferences, with applications first processed for the zero-choice option and only afterward allocated among the others. In other words, you might as well…
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2006年4月13日
Some Reflections on Confucius’s Birthday and China’s Teachers’ Day

Culture & Public Commentary2006.03.11
Some Reflections on Confucius’s Birthday and China’s Teachers’ Day
At this year’s Two Sessions, CPPCC members Li Hanqiu, Wei Minglun, and others proposed that China’s Teachers’ Day should be changed from the current September 10 to September 28, Confucius’s birthday. Once again, the topic of Confucius and China’s Teachers’ Day has drawn people’s attention. In fact, Taiwan adopted Confucius’s birthday as Teachers’ Day quite early, and on the mainland the call to change Teachers’ Day is by no means something that only became lively at this year’s Two Sessions. Last September, Mr. Hu Xingdou, professor of economics at Beijing Institute of Technology (peace ambassador of the Global Peace Alliance, council member of the World Chinese Exchange Association), initiated and…
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2006年3月11日
Some Discussions on Politics and Education

Culture & Public Commentary2006.01.12
Some Discussions on Politics and Education
Last night we started with “exposing and criticizing” someone, and talked about a lot of issues. It was quite interesting, but unfortunately TSP did not participate, and I don’t know how to make a chat transcript. So let me just sort out my own views on some of the issues we discussed yesterday. First, there is the question of moral cultivation. I think that no matter whom one is facing, or what situation one is in, some basic moral cultivation should be maintained. Of course, we can say that in some specific circumstances, when emotions run high, saying something excessive or doing something excessive is understandable. But this “understanding” cannot…
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2006年1月12日
A SWOT Analysis of a Double Degree…

Life & Notes2005.12.14
A SWOT Analysis of a Double Degree…
Strengths l Forcing myself to learn JAVA, JSP, data warehousing, and other technologies that look pretty fun l One more diploma, one more calling card Weaknesses l Takes up spare time and affects my major studies l This double-degree program is of absolutely no help to my major studies l The teachers care only about making money, and there’s not much meaningful stuff to learn in class l The double-degree diploma has a lot of fluff and little real use Opportunities l This double-degree program has few class hours, so the pressure is not the heaviest l Since the teachers want to make money, they generally won’t fail me; getting…
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2005年12月14日
I’ve kind of regained the feeling of writing essays in high school~

Life & Notes2005.12.09
I’ve kind of regained the feeling of writing essays in high school~
Recently I’ve managed to churn out so many essays in one go, all of them scribbled casually on paper during self-study and then typed up directly when I got back. It reminded me of high school, when every week I had to write an essay for my Chinese teacher; in fact, these recent pieces have hardly improved on what I wrote back then. At the time, the weekly essay was usually just a little over a thousand characters, and I would generally riff on assorted issues from heaven and earth, antiquity and the present, the universe and human life. It was probably not much different in style from what I’ve…
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2005年12月9日