The scientist Academician Yang Shuzi has a famous saying: "If you don't have the national humanistic spirit, you will collapse if you don't fight."
“If a country or a nation does not have modern science and advanced technology, it will collapse in a single attack. And if it does not have excellent historical traditions and national humanistic spirit, it will collapse if it does not attack.” During his more than four years as principal, Uncle Yang vigorously promoted humanistic quality education for college students.
In 1993, Uncle Yang, then the principal, received a letter from a student, which said: "Chinese college students fail the English proficiency test and cannot obtain a degree. I agree, because reform and opening up requires the use of foreign languages; However, students make a lot of typos, use incorrect words, and make unclear sentences in their daily writing, and yet they can still get a degree. Principal, what should be the explanation for this? ”
General Yang? This letter was discussed at the principal's office meeting and it was decided that in order to strengthen the humanistic quality education of college students, students in all majors in the school must take the Chinese language proficiency test. To this day, Huazhong University of Science and Technology still insists that all students take the Chinese language test once a year, and those who fail will not be issued a degree certificate.
Science and engineering students must take two humanities points every year, otherwise they will not be able to graduate; and starting from 2007, in addition to the Chinese major, "Chinese Language" courses will gradually be offered as a compulsory course, and students who fail will not be issued. Graduation certificate.
Under his strong advocacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (now Huazhong University of Science and Technology) took the lead in raising the banner of humanistic quality education among science and engineering universities in the country in the mid-1990s. The "Humanities Enlightenment in Chinese Universities" series of books, with Uncle Yang as the director of the editorial board and a collection of high-quality humanities lectures in domestic universities, has sold hundreds of thousands of copies and remains a best-seller to this day.
About Uncle Yang:
Uncle Yang was born in 1933 in Hukou, Jiangxi Province. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. Committed to the interdisciplinary research of emerging disciplines such as mechanical engineering, information technology, and artificial intelligence, he leads the team to open up new areas of intelligent manufacturing research in my country, and is the first initiator of intelligent manufacturing in China. He promoted the engineering application of time series analysis, achieved chatter-free cutting, and overcame international problems such as quantitative detection of broken wires in steel wire ropes, and made important contributions to the development of mechanical engineering in my country.