Confucius said, "You know your destiny at fifty." At this age, the golden period of your life has passed, and ordinary people will begin to plan their old age and prepare for retirement. It stands to reason that people who occupy important positions in grassroots party and government organs and are about to retire should be able to relax and prepare for happiness at this moment, but Zhou Jiting, 50, did not play by common sense. At the beginning of 1997, he set an example for the "post rotation system" of his leading cadres, voluntarily abdicated from the grass-roots organs, and then joined the field of private higher education with uncertain future, and achieved remarkable results.
Beijing Vocational College of Science and Technology, founded by Zhou Jiting, started with a family background of 50,000 yuan, with annual assets of several billion yuan and more than 40,000 students. Miraculously become a dazzling star in the field of private education in China.
To uncover the mystery of the success of Beijing Academy of Sciences, we must start with Zhou Jiting, chairman and party secretary of Beijing Academy of Sciences. The "father of Beijing Academy of Sciences" took advantage of the great opportunity of the development of private education after the reform and opening up, led his core team all the way through the layers of fog, and made Beijing Academy of Sciences embark on the road to success. With the feeling of exploration, education and career interviewed the leaders of Beijing Academy of Sciences.
Capital operation is the first consideration.
After nearly 30 years' development, the physical capital, human capital and social capital of China's private colleges and universities have reached a new incremental period in the process of continuous integration and mutual promotion, but compared with public colleges and universities with a long history and state financial support, private colleges and universities are still at a relative disadvantage as a whole. Many private colleges and universities have been eliminated in the fierce competition, and a number of high-quality private educational institutions have successfully stood out by virtue of their excellent strength. Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences is one of them. Beijing Academy of Sciences has grown from a school that relies on renting school buildings to two campuses with a total construction area of more than 700,000 square meters, becoming one of the best private universities in Beijing and even the whole country. What is the secret of its success?
Some private colleges and universities put forward that "the quality of teaching determines the life and death of private colleges and universities, especially in the early stage of running a school". Zhou Jiting has different views on this. He believes: "There is a voice in society that only by respecting the universal laws of education and paying attention to quality like public colleges and universities can schools survive. This seems to be right, but in my opinion, private education is not just about the laws of education. Private schools should first base themselves on the market and respect the operating rules of the market. Although the law of education plays an important role in private education, if we don't respect the law of economy and act according to the law of market operation, we will undoubtedly die. Therefore, we must combine the laws of education, especially higher vocational education, with economic laws. Only in this way can private higher vocational colleges survive and develop. "
Speaking of attaching importance to the origin of economic laws, Zhou Jiting told a story of a picture book with great interest.
Picture books are the main extracurricular reading materials of Zhou Jiting's generation when they were in primary school. In the fourth grade of primary school, Zhou Jiting helped a well-off student in the same class with his lessons, and got a picture book called "Flooded Seven Armies". Zhou Jiting took this picture book to the "market" among the fourth-grade students, lent this new picture book to others 1 day, and obtained the right to read two picture books for 5 days; These two comic books were used to change from grade five to four comic books, and from grade six to eight. Over and over again, Zhou Jiting has picture books to read in the whole class. Because Zhou Jiting was very successful in managing children's books in the class, the principal asked him to manage the books of the whole school, so the limited book resources of the whole school were well arranged by Zhou Jiting. Unexpectedly, this incident laid the groundwork for his capital operation decades later.
Zhou Jiting summed this up as "the time-space view of capital transaction flow appreciation", that is, capital always increases in value through transactions in a certain time and space. Zhou Jiting believes that the smooth operation of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of funds of the Beijing Academy of Sciences today benefited from the management of picture books at that time and the work experience accumulated as the county party secretary in the future.
Of course, running a school is far more complicated than managing picture books, but it is based on the in-depth study and thorough understanding of capital forms, plus the courage to take risks and be good at using various capital forms flexibly that Beijing Academy of Sciences has broken through the life and death barrier several times in management practice and gradually become bigger and stronger.
Strictly manage schools and educate people.
Beijing Vocational College of Science and Technology was approved by the Beijing Municipal People's Government and registered and established by the Ministry of Education in June 2003. It has won more than 20 honorary titles, such as "model school for aiding students", "Beijing advanced greening unit" and "national excellent legal school". These achievements are inseparable from Zhou Jiting's educational policy of "strictly administering the school and educating people with moral education".
In the early days of the school, Zhou Jiting pondered the management methods of Eton College and West Point Military Academy abroad, inspected private universities in Ann, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and drew lessons from the experience of several well-run private universities in Beijing, and clearly put forward the policy of "strictly administering the school", which was listed as the first of the four policies of "strictly administering the school, establishing the school with quality, strengthening the school with talents and promoting the school with service"
"Other characteristics can be ignored, but the characteristics of' strictly administering the school' must be adhered to. Strictness is the main strategy and love is the starting point. When strict requirements are met, love will come true. " Zhou Jiting believes that it is an indispensable management principle for private colleges and universities to pay attention to both strictness and love, and both hands should be hard.
"Strictness" is not only a requirement for teachers and students of Beijing Academy of Sciences, but also a requirement for Zhou Jiting. In order to spur himself, he asked the calligrapher to write down the eight characters "Worry is proud, pine is dead" as his motto and stick them on the wall of the office. This desolate and solid character supports his struggle 1 1 year.
Zhou Jiting also paid special attention to moral education, calling it the "soul of vocational education" of Beijing Academy of Sciences. The whole education system from "frustration education" after entering the school gate to "taking party building as the guide, faith culture as the core content and three systems as the guarantee" and the practice of "three gratitude and three care" activities carried out throughout the school repeatedly echo the theme of "moral education" of Beijing Academy of Sciences.
Zhou Jiting said: "People's ideals, style, will, faith, perseverance and other non-intellectual factors are honed through life and work. Reading is very important, but just reading is not enough. It is the purpose of reading to apply the truth in the book to practice. "
The Badaling Campus of Beijing Academy of Sciences has an inscription. The front is "educating people to serve the country" and the back is "the interests of the motherland are above everything else". These two slogans always remind students that as a member of the Beijing Academy of Sciences, their responsibilities and ambitions are also Zhou Pinjiting's expectations for the Beijing Academy of Sciences.
Teamwork is a surprise.
No matter how strong Columbus was, he could not discover the new continent alone. The same is true of managing a school. In addition to a decision-making leader, a good team is also essential. Zhou Jiting paid special attention to the team of Beijing Academy of Sciences-the team of the board of directors, the president's office and the party committee. He believes that evaluating the maturity of a unit mainly depends on the leading group. Whether cohesion can be formed is the key to the success or failure of the team.
Taking the Party Committee of North Academy of Sciences as an example, the development of Party building has led the construction of students' spiritual civilization in North Academy of Sciences and penetrated into all aspects of the school. As Tao Yuanming, an ancient poet in China, said, "Light rain comes from the east, accompanied by good winds." . The organic combination of the party building work of the North Academy of Sciences and all the work of the school has formed a humanistic atmosphere of gathering people's hearts, inspiring people and inspiring people. It has also been called the "secret weapon" of the North Academy of Sciences by the educator Mr. Tao Xiping. It is the collaboration and contribution to the development of Beijing Academy of Sciences that makes Beijing Academy of Sciences grow up to now.
In Zhou Jiting's view, there are no wizards in the leadership of the Beijing Academy of Sciences, but these people who take vocational education as their responsibility attach great importance to strategic interests and educational feelings, so they are United. Such a centripetal "heroic spectrum" can be said to be a major feature of Beijing Academy of Sciences.
Such a group of heroes provided a solid backing and foundation for Zhou Jiting's management school. Students of Beijing Academy of Sciences benefit the most from the environment of one mind and one mind. The students of Beijing Academy of Sciences talked about their own school and summed up four "happiness factors", namely, a beautiful school environment, professional satisfaction, a good learning atmosphere and rich after-school life. This seemingly simple element of happiness has devoted countless efforts of all the faculty of Beijing Academy of Sciences, and is also closely related to Zhou Jiting's school-running philosophy that "education is service and everything is for students".
Teaching students in accordance with their aptitude to promote employment
As we all know, many students who enter private vocational colleges fail in the college entrance examination. In addition to restoring their confidence, scientific educational methods are crucial. According to Professor Gardner's "Multiple Intelligences" theory, Beijing Academy of Sciences put forward the resounding slogan "Everyone is talented, no one is all-round, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, and everyone is successful".
The new concept of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude put forward by Beijing Academy of Education is very different from the old private school-style "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude". It is a new modern educational concept based on the "multiple intelligences" educational theory of Professor Gardner of Harvard University.
According to Professor Gardner's "Multiple Intelligences" theory, human intelligence is diverse, and there are eight basic intelligences: speech-language intelligence, mathematics-logic intelligence, music-rhythm intelligence, visual-spatial intelligence, body-kinesthetic intelligence, self-knowledge-introspection intelligence, communication-communication intelligence and natural intelligence. If a person is only measured by a certain intelligence standard, he may be a "person with poor learning ability"; If measured by another intelligence standard, he may be a "good learner". The idea of "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" of Beijing Academy of Sciences came into being, which broke the rigid boundary between "good students" and "poor students" and put forward the resounding slogan of "Everyone is talented, no one is omnipotent, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and everyone is successful", and guided the teaching practice.
Educator Tao Xiping compares the exploration of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude to the principle of root carving, that is, through the artist's selection of roots, the seemingly worthless "abandoned" roots are processed into priceless works of art.
The ultimate goal of school education is to provide qualified talents for the society. However, the employment difficulty has become a social problem, and to solve this problem, we must start with the root of "education".
When it comes to employment, Zhou Jiting is not without emotion: "A prominent contradiction in today's society is that' people who have jobs don't have jobs', which is bad for society and an opportunity for running a school. Cultivating students into a professional reserve army with broad employment spectrum, increasing their employment opportunities and enhancing their employment weight is tantamount to standing proudly in the frost and snow season and leading the way."
Regarding vocational education, the Ministry of Education requires "service-oriented, employment-oriented, and school-enterprise cooperation". It is through the individualized education of "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" that Beijing Academy of Sciences trains new talents by order-based education and various market-oriented ways, with the use of on-campus experimental training equipment and off-campus practice bases worth hundreds of millions of yuan and the combination of production and learning.
At the same time, the school has also set up a professional guidance and school-enterprise cooperation Committee, and more than 600 enterprises in Beijing have established internship and employment cooperation relations with the school. In order to be close to the market, Beijing Academy of Science invited enterprise managers to make suggestions on specialty setting and personnel training requirements, and invited professional and technical personnel to guide practical courses, combining practical training with early entry, so that students can learn knowledge and practical skills in the production line.
The employment-oriented training mode of Beijing Academy of Sciences has been recognized by the society. A business owner once praised the graduates of Beijing Academy of Sciences, saying that we used some graduates, master students and MBAs from famous universities, and felt that their understanding of enterprises and jobs was not strong, and many universities did not pay enough attention to graduates' employment. It's very good for Beijing Academy of Sciences to clearly put forward the goal of "major is for employment", and this idea of running a school should be strongly advocated.
After telling the successful experience in the past, Zhou Jiting also frankly talked about the problems and challenges faced by Peking University, such as how to improve the quality of teachers, how to solve the quality problems of students, and how to ensure that Peking University has sufficient funds to exchange capital investment for quality improvement in his spare time. But at the same time, he also believed that every problem would make Peking University take a step forward, which made him quite touched.
Looking forward to the future, Zhou Jiting is full of ambition: "In the future, private education in China will enter the Warring States period from the Spring and Autumn Period, and the strong will be the first. The North Academy of Sciences is moving towards the goal of' first-class Beijing, famous China and world-famous'. "
Simplicity and persistence-this is the external evaluation of Zhou Jiting. In the eyes of Beike people, they are closer to Secretary Zhou. In the interview, the elder who has read all the vicissitudes of life showed his very frank and natural side. Recalling the passionate places in those years, I can't help but get angry, or get up and gesture, or laugh. We have seen a person who is over 60 years old, but still has ideals and burns the passion of life. As the saying goes, "Brilliance is extremely dull, and I can see brilliance in dullness." In Zhou Jiting, we see the future of Beijing Academy of Sciences, and in Beijing Academy of Sciences, we see the future of private education in China.