“放飞我们最具雄心的理想”——德鲁·福斯特研究型大学教育思想初探

Unleashing Our Most Ambitious Imaginings——On Drew Gilpin Faust's Research University Education Ideas

德鲁.福斯特是哈佛大学第28任校长,也是哈佛建校371年以来第一位女校长。她的任命本身也具有一定的象征意义,象征哈佛大学将更加开放、更加民主。上任以来,她通过演讲、报告、新闻发布会等形式,提出了富有哲学意蕴的研究型大学的办学思想。例如:大学要对永恒许下诺言,大学要帮助学生寻求人生的意义,大学是关于知识的,研究型大学的前提是我们都是教师、我们都是学习者,等等。这些理念对我国建设世界一流大学有一定的启示。

Drew · Gilpin · Faust is the 28th president of Harvard university and she has also been the first female president since the university founded 371 years ago. Appointment to her of itself has certain symbolic meaning too; it symbolize the more open, democracy of Harvard University. She has shown her philosophy ideas about research university by her speech, reports, news since she was announced to be the 28th president of Harvard University Febrary, 11, 2007. She has put some suggestions such as ＂university makes commitments to the timeless＂ human beings search for meaning; a university is about learning, the fundamental premise of a research university is we are all teachers and we are all learners＂. It gives some enlightenment for our country to set up the world-class university.