I really just want to be a scholar

Qin Ke's teaching and research work seems to be very full now, but because of his high work efficiency, he is not busy. Not only can he often make time on weekends to go out on dates with his wife Ning Qingjun and take his two children out for outings, but even on weekdays, he can find an average of two hours of free time every other day.

He would either use these two hours to read books to broaden his horizons, or to visit teachers and elders on campus, or to chat with old classmates or students who stayed on campus to work.

Of the 28 classmates in his undergraduate science class, two-thirds left Qingmu University after graduation. Some went abroad to study and develop their careers, some went to other universities to teach, some went to research institutions to do research work, and some completely switched to business or politics.

Of the remaining one third, some stayed on campus to teach, while seven or eight chose to "join" Qin Ke and join the project team in the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory or the "Chief Scientist Building".

Those who dared to work with Qin Ke were basically the best in the basic science class. Five of them later followed Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun for graduate and doctoral studies. For example, Jiang Xiaopang, Jiang Zhenjie, and Hua Manting were engaged in applied research in the fluid mechanics laboratory, while Li Xiangxue, Gu Yanfei, and Ximen Hui were engaged in theoretical research in the Chief Scientist Building.

In addition to the above arrangements, Qin Ke would occasionally leave school to go to the headquarters of Qingning Technology and Qingning Scholarship Foundation, or visit the Qingning Quantum Computing Laboratory and Qingning Plant Cultivation Laboratory.

When Qin Ke received the call from Ji Xiuyu, he happened to be strolling to the home of his teacher, Academician Jiang Weixian.

Qingmu University naturally arranged accommodation for Academician Jiang Weixian, an old and highly respected academician who had dedicated his entire life to the country and Qingmu University. However, Jiang Weixian had always insisted on living in an ordinary professor's apartment. After retirement, he agreed to Qingmu University's new arrangement under Qin Ke's persuasion and arranged for his family to live in the garden villa area, which was only a hundred meters away from Qin Ke's home.

After Academician Jiang Weixian retired, he would come back to the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory from time to time to contribute his spare time and guide the work of young people. However, in the past two years, his wife fell and was injured, and she has difficulty moving and can only travel in a wheelchair. Jiang Weixian has to stay by her side to take care of her, so he rarely has time to come to the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory.

Qin Ke had great respect for Academician Jiang Weixian. As the saying goes, an old man in the family is like a treasure. In Beijing, he had three experienced seniors, Mr. Qiu, Academician Jiang Weixian and Academician Guo Weiyang, who were knowledgeable and profound in academics. Naturally, Qin Ke often visited them.

Seeing that the weather was good this afternoon, Qin Ke went to visit Teacher Jiang. Together with Teacher Jiang, he pushed the old lady in the chair and took a walk in the villa area.

The warm sunshine shines through the leaves, the autumn wind is intoxicating, and the yellow leaves are all over the ground, making people feel happy.

Qin Ke was chatting with Jiang Weixian about some interesting things in his recent research when his cell phone rang. Qin Ke was a little surprised to see that it was a call from his mother-in-law Ji Xiuyu. How could his mother-in-law have time to contact him during working hours?
Guessing that it might be an urgent matter, Qin Ke smiled apologetically at Academician Jiang Weixian, handed him the handle of the wheelchair, and walked away a few steps to answer the phone.

After listening to Ji Xiuyu's retelling and her opinions, Qin Ke raised his eyebrows and said, "Mom, don't worry, leave this matter to me."

"I trust you to do the job, but you still need to be careful not to give others a chance to criticize you and affect your reputation..."

Qin Ke smiled and interrupted, "Mom, don't worry about me. I will be careful. I am also a person who cherishes my reputation. I will tell you the result after I get it done. You just wait patiently."

After ending the call, Qin Ke subconsciously put away the smile on his face and frowned in deep thought.

The wife of the old academician Jiang Weixian had a very good impression of Qin Ke. This disciple of her husband has now surpassed his teacher and is famous all over the world. He is one of the world's top physicists. However, he treats her and Jiang Weixian with the same humility, respect, kindness and care as before, and often brings some food and daily necessities over. Although the family has no shortage of these, this is also Qin Ke's intention, isn't it?
Especially after Jiang Weixian retired and she became bedridden, among Jiang Weixian's many disciples, only a few people such as Qin Kening, Qingjun and Xu Qingyan came to visit her frequently. The other disciples only visited her during the holidays.

People’s hearts are made of flesh, so how could the old lady not be moved?
Now she saw Qin Ke, and she felt closer to him than to her own son. Seeing that Qin Ke's face looked a little strange, she pushed her husband and signaled him to pay attention to Qin Ke and see if there was anything she could do to help.

Jiang Weixin knows Qin Ke much better than his wife does.

He just shook his head gently, signaling his lady not to be anxious.

After a while, Jiang Weixian saw Qin Ke finally loosen his slightly locked brows, and a resolute look appeared on his face. Knowing that his student had thought it over and over again and had basically made a decision, he asked, "Qin Ke, can you tell me what it is?"

Qin Ke was startled when he heard this. He had indeed made a preliminary decision, but when he saw Jiang Weixian's concern in his voice, he suddenly remembered that the old academician in front of him had been teaching and educating people for decades and was very experienced. He could definitely listen to his opinions on how to deal with similar matters.

Qin Ke said, "Teacher Jiang, it's like this..." He explained the situation and then said helplessly, "Qingjun and I originally thought of using 'Qingmu University's Graduate School Admission' as the first threshold. One reason was to save trouble and reduce the number of people taking the written test. The other was to add some talent to the school. I didn't expect that now among Qingmu University's students, a morbid trend has formed in order to 'ensure admission to graduate school'."

At this point, Qin Ke's eyes became deep and sharp: "And I believe that similar situations are not only happening at Qingmu University, but also in other schools. I am very worried about the future of Xiaguo's education sector, and I don't want domestic universities to provide society with a large number of such "excellent talents" who will do anything for their own benefit, so this trend must be ruthlessly killed!"

If others had reached Qin Ke's current top reputation, they would probably be very cautious and pay attention to details at all times to avoid "collapse of reputation". However, Qin Ke is not a person who cares so much about reputation. For him, if he is restrained in doing things in order to protect his feathers and preserve his reputation, then what is the meaning of living.

As a human being, you should be someone who holds your head high and stands tall against the sky!
When doing things, do what you think is right and worth doing!

Qin Ke made up his mind.

The first step is to explicitly cancel the condition that "only Qingmu University guaranteed graduate students can apply to be Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's graduate students." The second step is to thoroughly investigate the matter and then deal with it publicly across the country to serve as a warning to others!

This unhealthy trend of using any means necessary to compete for admission to graduate school must be stopped before it spreads across the board!

Even if a small number of people might accuse him of bullying the weak, or even slander him for ruining the future of three undergraduate female students for the sake of his relatives, he would not hesitate!

After hearing Qin Ke's ideas, Jiang Weixian couldn't hide his admiration in his eyes.

The sincere heart of this disciple of mine, as pure as gold, remains the same as before, and has not been polluted by worldly fame and fortune!

"On the surface, this incident is about competing for the qualification to become your student, but the root cause is not that." Jiang Weixian said in a deep voice:
"Nowadays, there are more and more undergraduate graduates, and the employment competition pressure is getting greater and greater. Postgraduate study has become a way to enhance future social competitiveness. Many students do not even know whether they are suitable for research, but they rush to study for a master's degree. In order to be so-called 'world-class research universities', major universities have made the number of postgraduate students exceed that of undergraduates, and blindly encourage students to study for a master's degree. I think this is inappropriate!"

At this point, the old academician's voice became serious: "When the teaching staff and the teaching and research environment cannot keep up, we should slow down and improve our internal strength instead of just seeking speed and fame!"

He looked at Qin Ke and said, "I think that the only university that has the conditions to expand the enrollment of graduate students is Qingmu University. Over the years, thanks to your reputation and contacts with the world's top scholars, Qingmu University's international reputation has risen to a higher level, and it has also attracted a large number of outstanding foreign scholars to come here to teach and do research. This is a unique advantage that Qingmu University has. Other schools, even Yanda University, can hardly match it."

Jiang Weixian was even more satisfied when he saw Qin Ke listening to him patiently without any impatience. He stopped talking about this topic briefly. He knew very well that it was because of Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun that Xia's status in the international academic community continued to rise and its attraction to foreign talents was greatly enhanced, which made many domestic universities blindly optimistic and believed that they should speed up their pace to become a world-class research university.

And precisely because Qin Ke is now a banner in the education sector, it would be inappropriate for Qin Ke to pour cold water on this topic. It would be more appropriate for this old guy to report to his superiors.

So Jiang Weixian stopped talking and returned to the original topic: "As for the issue of undergraduates who are only focused on getting into graduate school, it actually existed when you were still an undergraduate, but it has indeed become more and more serious in recent years."

Once you are successfully admitted to graduate school, it means that you no longer have to spend a lot of time and energy reviewing ideological and political education, English, mathematics, professional and other subjects to squeeze into the single-plank bridge of the national unified examination and fight your way out from the thousands of competitors. How can this not attract undergraduates who want to study for a master's degree?

The old academician's voice was filled with grief and anguish. "Just like Qingjun's little cousin, she has been focusing on getting into graduate school since freshman year. She doesn't participate in any activities that are not related to her overall grades. She doesn't take any courses that might lower her GPA, no matter how interested she is. She rushes to take courses that are easy to get high GPA, no matter how boring they are... What kind of talent can be cultivated like this? Not to mention that her roommates have lost their moral integrity in order to compete for admission to graduate school!"

Qin Ke nodded secretly in agreement. He knew that the teacher encouraged students to expand their knowledge, make full use of the ivory tower of university to establish correct outlooks on life, life and values, and cultivate a broader vision and mind. The old man would never approve of studying just for the sake of admission to graduate school.

"Qin Ke, I agree with your decision just now, but I have some suggestions on the method and approach. In addition, I suggest that you go a step further and guide the education community to discuss the reform of guaranteed admission to graduate school. This will show your original intention and ambition as much as possible..."

Listening to the teacher's patient guidance and the earnest expectations in his words, Qin Ke nodded slightly and his eyes became brighter and brighter.

It is true that having an old person in the family is like having a treasure! (End of this chapter)