怀念过去的大学

The Thinking of the Past Universities

上世纪30年代前后,中国曾办出了一批与国外主流大学相比,只有量差没有质差的大学。究其成功的原因,主要得益于三点:一是承认现代大学制度的超国界性格,比照国际通用惯例来建设中国的大学;二是大学校长带头放弃既得行政权利资源,只当校长一件事所体现的教育家本质;三是不盲目自我感觉良好,所承载的理性反省精神。这些因素值得借鉴。

Around the 1930s, there appeared, comparing with the foreign main universities, numbers of good universities with no difference in quality but difference in quantity in China. The successful factors mainly lies in that： Firstly, it acknowledged that the modern university system had the character of transcending na- tional boundaries, and it set up Chinese universities according to the international general convention; Secondly, the president gave up the vested rights of administration and only served as a president; Thirdly, it had the spirit without good self - sensation blindly but bearing rational introspection. These factors are worth making use of.