2018.
Shuzhou University.
Department of Accounting.
A small-scale freshman exchange meeting is being held.
Students from all four classes of the department gathered in the lecture hall, looking around, whispering, excited and restless;
Roommates who just met each other gathered together to discuss dormitory conditions, food in the cafeteria, Internet cafes at the school gate, and mature, fashionable and beautiful seniors or handsome seniors;
When the dream of going to college, which had accompanied them for almost their entire school life, came true, they all tried hard and greedily to adapt to the new environment.
At the same time, they are full of anticipation for the new student career that is about to begin, looking forward to what the college life that they have dreamed of countless midnights will be like.
Time turned a deaf ear to the cicadas' chirping and the noise of people, and slowly approached three o'clock in the afternoon at its own pace.
A group of five people, three men and two women, accompanied by a counselor, walked into the classroom door.
They are the four class teachers and the department head.
"Wow!"
The classroom, which should have been quiet immediately, suddenly became filled with louder whispers.
It spread from the front row to the back row, like a spring breeze blowing through a bamboo forest, or like waves hitting the rocks.
In the team, there was a female teacher, bright as a flower, gentle as water. Her every move and gesture was the intellectual and gentle image that these young yet passionate boys and girls dreamed of.
"Teacher Jiang, you are really charming! I'm afraid your class will be packed again!"
Sitting down in the first row, a teacher joked with a smile.
Jiang Qingyue smiled gently and elegantly, "As long as they can learn it, it's fine."
The department head sitting in the middle nodded and said, "Xiao Jiang said it well. As long as they can learn knowledge, our goal will be achieved."
Everyone on the side also smiled. Normally, if a tree stands out from the crowd, the others would be somewhat dissatisfied. However, Jiang Qingyue has never been competitive and is gentle and considerate. No one would make things difficult for her because of this.
Of course, some of this is due to her fear for her husband who now has a bright and successful career, which is not known to outsiders.
"Everyone be quiet!"
The counselor walked up to the podium, picked up the microphone and started speaking. His voice was like ripples, suppressing all the discussions in the classroom.
"First of all, welcome to Shuzhou University, to our college, and to our accounting department."
The young people at this time, their enthusiasm had not yet faded, and they responded to the teacher's words on the stage with warm applause.
Oh, no, this is not the teacher.
Then, the counselor went on to say a lot of long-winded things, such as various precautions and school regulations regarding eating, living, and studying. To the old students, it all sounded like boring nonsense, but the freshmen listened with great interest.
"Next, please welcome Director Zhao from the Accounting Department to speak! Everyone, welcome."
The department head walked up to the podium amid applause, and walked down again amid applause, leaving behind a bunch of official rhetoric that was blown away by the wind.
The counselor's voice sounded again, "Next, please invite our accounting department teacher representative, Teacher Xu, to come to the stage and speak."
An involuntary sigh of disappointment made the middle-aged man who was standing up and walking towards the podium feel a little embarrassed, but when he thought of the man who once invited all the teachers in their department to have a meal together, and the invisible and fascinating aura around him, the middle-aged man could not hate Jiang Qingyue.
So he had no choice but to transfer his dissatisfaction to these ignorant students.
After a simple opening, he went straight into action.
"Do you think you are very proud and proud to be admitted to a key school like Shuzhou University and to be able to sit in this classroom? I tell you, you are wrong."
"The education system in country Z only produces mediocre people who are good at answering questions and taking exams, but lack creativity. I know you will definitely not accept my statement, but look at it yourself. Over the years, have we produced anyone who won a Nobel Prize? Why can't we produce just one person among a billion people? It's because there is something wrong with the education system in country Z. Our thinking is all empirical summaries, but we are extremely lacking in scientific thinking and creativity."
"Take accounting for example. Chinese people have been keeping accounts for thousands of years, but the double-entry bookkeeping method was finally invented by Venetian merchants during the Renaissance, laying the foundation for our modern accounting. This is just a small and inconspicuous embellishment on the great crown of the Renaissance."
"So, we can see how much contribution the United States and the Roman state have made to the development of human science and technology and the progress of civilization. What about us? We have made some contributions, but that was in ancient times. Even the contributions in ancient times cannot be called contributions. They were just the flashes of inspiration of a few geniuses among such a large population. The result was that they invented something many years earlier than so-and-so, and they boasted about it every day, but what about the actual application? What about the results? None! Gunpowder was used to set off fireworks, and papermaking failed to trigger the Enlightenment. The promotion of science and technology and civilization was all passive. The long history that we are proud of is only a long history, and the rest is nothing!"
"There is a lot of talk online about the rise of a great power and being number one in the world. That is just a foolish rhetoric. As senior intellectuals in institutions of higher learning, we should have our own calm and sober thinking and know that we are still far behind. The West is still the beacon of our civilization and is worthy of our admiration and learning."
"I'm not saying this to scold you. I'm saying this because I want you to know what's really good and what's fake. I hope that one day you can go abroad through your own efforts, visit those truly advanced countries, learn truly advanced cultures, live in advanced civilizations, and realize your own life value."
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