rebirth of change

If it is only to reduce the burden of foreign language learning for students, then Chen Kangjie's first proposal is not complete.

He plans to add a "History of Science and Technology" course in the proposal, which can help effectively bridge the gap between arts and sciences. <).

In the book, Snow believes that the intellectual life of the entire Western society has increasingly been divided into two extreme groups, one is literary intellectuals, and the other is scientists, especially the most representative physicists.Between the two there is a gulf of mutual incomprehension and sometimes mutual hatred and loathing, especially among young people.

Of course, most of them are due to lack of understanding, they have absurdly distorted the other's image.Their attitudes towards problems are completely different, and even emotionally it is difficult to find a lot of common ground.

Snow wrote: I simply did not expect that the connection between those scientists and traditional culture would be so loose, it is almost like a touch of the brim of the hat in the form of salute. ...the whole literature of traditional culture seems irrelevant to their interests. …they impoverish themselves, so what will the other side think?Equally impoverished—perhaps worse, because the literary intellectuals are more vain about it.They still like to claim that traditional culture is the whole "culture", as if there is no natural order at all, as if exploring the natural order is meaningless in terms of its own value or its results.It is as if the scientific edifice of the physical world is not, in intellectual depth, complexity, or mode of illustration, the most beautiful and wonderful collective creation of mankind.

CP Snow gave two prescriptions for curing this split.One is to create a third culture.The second is the education that he talked about repeatedly although he didn't go deep into it: the basic means for us to choose is education, mainly primary and secondary education, and also includes colleges and universities.There is no reason for the next generation to be universally ignorant, or as lacking in understanding and empathy as our own. …changes in education won’t solve our problems by themselves, but without them we can’t even realize what those problems are.

During Chinese New Year, Chen Kangjie happened to read this book, and the discussion started by Snow is still going on today.Many scholars are discussing the creation of a third culture. Brockman proposed two years ago that some scientists began to directly communicate with ordinary readers. This is the third culture that is taking shape.

Chen Kangjie believes that Snow's two prescriptions are actually one.To communicate two cultures, or create a third culture, must start with education.

In this regard, Chen Kangjie put forward two propositions, one is to establish a curriculum of history of science and technology in middle schools.The history of science and technology is undoubtedly subordinate to history, but it is not necessary to incorporate it into history teaching and become a part of the latter.It is easier to start the course of history of science and technology independently than to incorporate history of science and technology into history.And because the history of science and technology, like the history of art, has its own independent content and threshold different from traditional historiography, it is quite difficult for traditional historians to complete this course.Lectures in middle schools have greatly expanded the historical perspective of students, teachers and researchers.After modern reflection, we should realize that history is not the history of emperors and generals.But if the inference of this logic is limited to the history of the masses, it is to replace one narrow way of thinking with another narrow way.The creation and invention of technicians and science, in many cases, promotes and changes history more than emperors and generals.This is an important perspective to see through the development of history.The earliest historical views were limited to the history of power struggles, military conquests, and political systems, and later economic history came to the fore.Economic history tells people how societies work.The history of science and technology tells people why history has changed.The history of science and technology is more ambitious, wide-angle, attractive, easier to understand, and can win the enthusiasm of more students.

As a liberal arts student, Chen Kangjie understands that the history of science and technology is of great benefit to liberal arts students.Many liberal arts students are not interested in science because they are bad at calculating microscopically.The history of science and technology is not to teach students how to use science and technology, but to teach him how to understand the impact of major scientific and technological discoveries on human society.For example, the relationship between bronze, iron smelting and the country and the military, how the saddle changed the balance of military power, the relationship between papermaking, printing and the imperial examination, how Gutenberg changed the information stock in the Western world, the discovery and popularization of electricity, and even the telephone to mobile phone evolution, etc.The professor of this course is likely to induce many students to love science.

It was better after rebirth. Before rebirth, Chen Kangjie knew almost nothing about technology.

When cooperating with "Titanic", Cameron Zengzen, who has strong painting skills, told Chen Kangjie: Don't say that we don't understand painting. We are equal in terms of feeling and aesthetics. We may be weaker or stronger than someone else. As a painter, the difference between us and painters is mainly the technique, which we cannot draw.In the same way, we are unable to engage in scientific research and technological development, but non-scientific and technological workers are not weaker than professional scientific and technological workers in the evolution of science and its changes in human history.

From a layman's point of view, Chen Kangjie thinks that the professor of history of science and technology is of great benefit to students majoring in science and engineering.The courses they major in are so specialized that they lose the big picture.The history of science and technology is essentially a liberal arts, which can give students of science and engineering a sense of history and a philosophical perspective.What has a special charm is that this kind of philosophical and historical literacy is not obtained from traditional philosophy and historiography. Some science and engineering students may not be interested in those studies, but from the history of science that they are mostly interested in.

That is to say, the history of science course can open up two groups of students in terms of intellectual interest and care, so that students of liberal arts like science, and students of science like history and philosophy.

At the end, Chen Kangjie will also put forward a supplementary suggestion. Maybe this suggestion will not be implemented in a short time, but he still wants to join it.That is also Chen Kangjie's second proposition, that is, the education department implements the strategy of not dividing arts and sciences into middle schools.The college entrance examination only applies to the university, not to the department, and the department and major are determined in the second or third year of the university.The college entrance examination consists of three subjects: Chinese, Mathematics, and General Studies, each with 100 points.General education consists of two parts: science, including physics, chemistry, and biology; liberal arts, including history, geography, and history of science.

There is no distinction between arts and sciences in high school, but individual preferences should not be suppressed.The matching system design is that students can declare their "weighted" choices in general education before the college entrance examination: liberal arts score plus science score, or liberal arts score x 130% + science score x 70%, or liberal arts score x 70% + science Score x130%.

Chen Kangjie's ability to think of this has a lot to do with the fact that he just finished the college entrance examination not long ago.Everyone studied geography in junior high school, and biology in freshman year of high school. However, these were all considered as secondary subjects, not main subjects. Why, because they were not taken in the entrance examination. Since they did not take the test, the students all Will not study hard.

Perhaps one thing is worth thinking about. Our country’s achievements in the field of biology are not as good as those in natural subjects such as physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Perhaps it has something to do with our knowledge of biology in middle school. The same is true for academics. Even many middle school students can't understand maps, and don't know how to use longitude and latitude to locate on the earth.

Chen Kangjie hadn't finished writing for a while, and it was difficult to continue writing, because Chen Jundong seemed sullen as soon as he entered the door, he didn't say hello to Chen Kangjie, he slammed the door and fell on the bed in a muffled voice.

"Bro, why did you come back so early? It's only past ten o'clock. I thought you would follow Chen Wenjie's lead and not come back tonight." Chen Kangjie put down the pen in his hand and asked concerned half-jokingly.

Chen Jundong ignored Chen Kangjie, turned over instead, and buried his head against the wall.

"Hey, hey, hey, what's the matter? What did you say? Who offended you? Could it be that the date has been ruined?" The more Chen Jundong didn't say anything, the more Chen Kangjie wanted to ask about the situation.

Chen Jundong turned his face blankly, "You guessed it, it's a mess."

"How did it go wrong? Tell me, see if I can help you, don't make it look like your own mother died with this matter."

"Forget it, don't ask now, let me sleep well, maybe I will feel better when I wake up," Chen Jundong said impatiently and uncomfortable.

Chen Kangjie cared about him, but he couldn't force others to make things difficult for him. If Chen Jundong didn't say anything, he couldn't do anything about it.

After a while, Ge Zihao came back, and Chen Kangjie lost the environment to write with peace of mind. For the sake of his own confidentiality, he could only give up temporarily, and wait for the opportunity to write again.

Chen Wenjie didn't return all night, when everyone thought that he would return home with a beautiful woman, when he returned to the dormitory early the next morning, he seemed even angrier than Chen Jundong.

"Why are you so angry? Didn't you get rid of the fire last night? Didn't you come back all night, didn't the Dao Hotel open?" Seeing Chen Wenjie slamming the door and the bench, Ge Zihao asked laughingly while lying on the bed.

"Fuck, I...", Chen Wenjie was a little angry.

"What's wrong with you? Don't you have a room?" Chen Kangjie came out of the bathroom.

"Opening a house is opening a house, but... I wish I could slap myself a few times," Chen Wenjie's face turned livid.

"Opening a house is a good thing, it's worth celebrating, why do you still want to kill yourself?" Chen Kangjie was full of doubts.

Even Chen Jundong, who was tossed and turned all night, stood up and was very interested in Chen Wenjie's affairs.

"But we didn't open a room," Chen Wenjie bowed his head in embarrassment and said embarrassingly.