In the eyes of classmates, Meng stood out and became one of the top 100. This 16-year-old "old" teacher who stepped onto the podium has devoted himself to education for decades and won the respect and love of students for his strict self-discipline, diligence and erudition. Students once used an extreme word to describe him as "perfect", with intellectual charm and personality charm.
Let's take a look at one of Meng's "sketches":
Doctor of Law, Senior Visiting Scholar and Professor, University of California, Berkeley. Member of Law Teaching Steering Committee of Ministry of Education, Director china law society, Executive Director of China Civil Law Society, Vice President of Guangxi Law Society, and Member of Expert Advisory Committee of People's Procuratorate of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
1since July, 1985, he has been teaching in the Law School of Guangxi University. 1since June 1995, he has served as Dean and Party Secretary of Law School of Guangxi University. 1June, 1997, he was hired as a doctoral supervisor by Wuhan University majoring in civil and commercial law. 1990, 1993 and 2004 won the first prize of outstanding achievements in social sciences in Guangxi three times, 1992 won the special government allowance of the State Council, 1998 was awarded the title of national excellent teacher by the Ministry of Education, and in 20001and 2005, it won the first teaching achievement in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for two consecutive years. Meng is one of the leading figures in the study of property law in China. He has been engaged in civil and commercial law teaching and scientific research for more than 20 years, and has made breakthrough achievements in the theoretical research of property law. Professor Jiang Ping, Master of Laws, was given the reputation of "Guangxi School". In the process of revising the draft property law and bankruptcy law in China, Meng participated in the revision work at the invitation of the Law Committee. He is one of the three legal experts invited outside Beijing. In an interview with Xinhua News Agency, the deputy director of the Law Committee specifically mentioned: "Professor Meng of Guangxi University has drafted some suggestions on the property law ... The suggestions of these experts are very valuable for the formulation of civil law."
Before 1995, few people studied property law in China. As early as 1980s, Meng, who was still studying on the university campus, devoted himself to the study of property law with keen insight and forward-looking vision. In the research field of property law, which was quite deserted at that time, Meng worked silently for more than ten years. His master's thesis "Civil Protection of State Property" was included in the Master's Library of Humanities and Social Sciences in China because it raised and answered some important questions related to property law. He has been working hard ever since.
In 2002, he published the academic monograph "Theory of Dual Structure of Real Right —— Theoretical Reconstruction of Real Right System in China". The dualistic theory of real right created in the book triggered an "earthquake" in the domestic law circle, which attracted wide attention from all parties and was also highly valued by the Legal Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress.
"When I finished reading the dualism of real right in front of me, I deeply felt that this was indeed one of the' broken walls' I expected. For those who are willing to study deeply and want to solve the modern reality in China, this book is like a ray of fresh air and a qualified tour guide, "said Zheng, a member of the Law Committee of the National People's Congress and a researcher at the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
This book won the first National Excellent Law Book Award in 2005.
In the 5th issue of Law Review in 2002, Meng's Proposal of China Property Law was published, and the editor said that "the theory and design of China people's property rights finally appeared in the field of property law". The draft property law published in 2005 has absorbed a large number of dualistic theories and suggestions on property rights, and has become one of the three expert drafts that have influenced the legislation of property rights in China.
"In the process of revising the draft, I am often in a' vulnerable group' because I have been fighting against the mainstream view of property rights, and those who support my view belong to a minority. Many views were' surrounded' by mainstream views as soon as they were put forward, but judging from the draft property law of the third trial, some views that I was' isolated' at that time have already been reflected. " Professor Meng proudly recalled.
As a legislative consultant of Guangxi People's Congress and an arbitrator of Nanning Arbitration Commission, Meng actively participated in the local economic construction and legal system construction in Guangxi, and did a lot of consulting work for legislation and law enforcement. He has served as legal adviser to foreign companies, banks, securities companies and other companies for a long time, and has undertaken many extremely difficult cases, avoiding and recovering losses of hundreds of millions of yuan for Guangxi enterprises.
Meng Qin-guo is rigorous in his scholarship, and he has profound insights into the inheritance and development of predecessors' legal thoughts and the breadth and depth of knowledge. He believes that learning is an honest thing and must be down-to-earth and step by step. His great academic success not only benefits from his diligence, erudition and meticulous thinking, but also benefits from his courage and courage to be unconventional, not afraid of authority, think independently and dare to explore the true meaning.
As a teacher, Meng also used this excellent quality in teaching and educating people. 1995 Appointed Meng as Dean of Law School of Guangxi University. As soon as he took office, he listed teaching reform as one of the most important tasks. Meng believes that the reform of legal education must meet the needs of today's domestic and international society, and legal education must undertake the great mission of cultivating and transporting legal talents needed for "ruling the country according to law"; Law major must aim at shaping noble personality and cultivating innovative ability, and cultivate applied legal talents with solid foundation and excellent quality.
In view of the characteristics of law education and the training goal of law professionals, he put forward the teaching reform plan of "a just heart, a hard pen and an iron mouth"; It advocates strengthening the cultivation of students' "three basics" (basic knowledge, basic skills and basic methods) and judicial practice ability, and at the same time broadening and broadening students' knowledge.
-"Just heart" is the most important professional ethics of a legal person. The pursuit of law is fairness and justice, and respecting the rule of law means believing in the supremacy of law and not giving in to any power or official position. This idea requires that law education can cultivate students' independent and sound personality and legal rationality, and should establish public interests, love the country, have morality and abide by the precepts; Students are required to establish proper conduct and legal beliefs as legal professionals and strive for fairness and justice all their lives.
-"A hard pen and an iron mouth" is the most basic professional quality of legal persons. Law is a profession of speculation and communication. Law students should be knowledgeable, clear-minded, fluent in writing, eloquent and persuasive.
In teaching practice, Meng attaches great importance to the cultivation of talents' morality. He said: "I always believe that university education is to educate people first, and cultivating college students with sound personality is the most important, followed by professional skills. Compared with ordinary people, students majoring in law must have a more noble personality, which is required by the particularity of law. This is also responsible to parents and responsible to society. "
Meng will never forget a thing that made him sad. In the 1980s, a law school student with excellent grades was assigned to a provincial institution upon graduation, but was returned to school on the first day of registration because he wore slippers to work. The unit thinks that such a sloppy student is unlikely to have a good sense of responsibility. Later, in his first report to freshmen every year, Meng told this story to his classmates, reminding them to be cautious and self-disciplined and not to be every cloud has a silver lining. He often reminds himself of this thing: start with small things, cultivate students' good organizational discipline and help them establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values.
There was once a graduate student who was late when he returned to school at the end of a winter vacation, but after arriving at school, he lied that the time was delayed and changed trains halfway. Meng found a flaw when checking the tickets. According to his departure date, even if he changes trains smoothly, he will be half a day late. The students were severely criticized and wrote a review. Teacher Meng said to him earnestly, "You were criticized by me for a little fall. If you can learn from it, you can avoid the big fall of the future society. "
In order to make students practice "a hard pen" and "an iron mouth", Meng initiated legal education in China, listed ancient Chinese as a compulsory course for graduate students of civil law in the Law School of Guangxi University, and asked students to recite an excellent work in "The View of Ancient Chinese" every week. Meng told his classmates that The View of Ancient Chinese Prose represents the highest achievement of China's classical prose, which is bound to be of great benefit to improving writing level and enhancing language expression ability.
Walking into the office building of the Law School of Guangxi University, you will find that the most magnificent room is not the dean's office or the professor's studio, but the students' mock trial. In this spacious and bright hall, there is a "trial" every month, and "judges", "lawyers" and "criminal suspects" each show their abilities and compete fiercely for the peak.
The density of "sessions" here is the highest in China Law School.
"The life of law lies in experience rather than theory", and Meng believes that the strength of judicial practice ability directly affects the quality of talents. Therefore, he attached great importance to the cultivation of students' practical ability and carried out a series of reforms:
-Run a mock trial well.
-Set up a course team. That is to bring a core course into several related practical courses to achieve the purpose of applying what you have learned.
-Strengthening case teaching in teaching.
-increase the internship time. The seventh semester of undergraduates in Guangxi University Law School is all internship time, which ensures the development of students' legal affairs and enables students to really get exercise in practice.
"Family affairs, state affairs, what's going on in the world, care about everything", Meng encourages students to get in touch with society, understand society and dabble in other subjects besides law. In his view, studying law requires not only a solid theoretical foundation and comprehensive knowledge, but also an understanding of social reality, not just empty talk. He advocated and carried forward this good style of study, which benefited the students of Guangxi University Law School.
In order to improve the overall level of college teachers, Meng actively helps young teachers grow up. 1995 Up to now, he has been serving as the guidance teacher for young teachers in the Civil Law Teaching and Research Section. In his busy schedule, he took time to review the speeches of young teachers, attend their lectures, give directions one by one, and impart experience. Driven by him, a group of young teachers, such as Dai, Yang Jie, have grown rapidly, providing sufficient human resources for discipline construction.
Meng presided over the completion of "people-oriented, system first", "a just heart, a hard pen, an iron mouth" and other major educational reform topics, which won the first prize of outstanding teaching achievements in Guangxi. The effect of the reform is gratifying, and the comprehensive quality of the trained talents has been greatly improved. The graduates of this college compete with the graduates of national key universities in the national judicial examination, national civil service examination and various job recruitment, and have achieved good results, showing their own strength, characteristics and advantages, which are highly praised by employers.
Law School of Guangxi University has become a well-known institution in Guangxi from obscurity. After graduating from a master's degree, Meng, from a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, left his best youth and young people's lofty ideals in the red land of southern Xinjiang and dedicated his most sincere love and passion to his students.
Meng Qin has a famous saying: ignoring and fooling students is a teacher's worst habit. He said: "As an educator, we must always have the responsibility of educating people, always think of ways to be a teacher, and always love students in order to fulfill our responsibilities as teachers." It is this strong sense of mission and responsibility that makes him never dare to be sloppy and lax in teaching and educating people.
Meng, with heavy academic research work and complicated social responsibilities, is overloaded with teaching every year, and the average annual teaching workload is more than twice that of law school teachers. He insisted on giving classes to undergraduates and offered seven undergraduate and postgraduate courses. He carefully studied teaching methods, carefully pondered students' psychology, and treated teaching meticulously; He is never absent from class, never late, and strict with his students, but so far no one hates his seriousness.
Speaking of teacher Meng's seriousness in class, his graduate students have never forgotten something that deeply touched him. At the end of 2000, Meng suffered from a serious liver disease. It's the middle of the semester, so it's difficult to adjust classes. In order not to delay students' learning progress, he insisted on taking an infusion bottle to class in the classroom. After a class, he is often too weak to speak. As his condition deteriorated, the doctor told him to stay in bed. Lying in bed, he can't finish class. Finally, he simply called the students home and gave them lessons in the hospital bed.
Classroom teaching can best reflect a teacher's comprehensive level. Meng's lectures are distinctive in style, simple in explanation and humorous. He expresses profound legal theories in easy-to-understand language, which makes students easy to understand and makes the classroom atmosphere very active, allowing students to actively study, ask questions and think in a relaxed and happy atmosphere. He also gave full play to the advantages of rich practical experience, integrated theory with practice, and made boring theories vivid with vivid cases.
On the podium, he led students to swim in the ocean of legal knowledge with his strong rational thinking, witty and humorous words, rigorous and realistic attitude and high passion. Meng has a characteristic in class. He never needs to read textbooks, but he can still talk about it in Kan Kan on the platform. This confidence and ability comes from his long-term knowledge accumulation and from his knowledge integration. Student Wang Hengheng said: "Professor Meng is knowledgeable. Although he is engaged in legal research and education, his research on philosophy, sociology and economics is quite in-depth. In classroom teaching, he widely quoted reference materials and explained them in a simple way, so that students can grasp the basic concepts and principles in a solid and comprehensive way. Listening to his class is simply a pleasure! "
"Teacher, preach, teach, and solve doubts." Meng has said many times that teachers are crutches for students to get out of ignorance. There are only teachers who can't explain clearly, and there are no students who can't understand. He believes that law undergraduates are primary school students in the legal field. Pupils start with literacy and counting, and law undergraduates start with the most basic concepts. Therefore, we must make the content of the textbook clear and thorough. In order to build a solid "crutch", he and his wife, who have been trained in pedagogy, study pedagogy seriously and accurately grasp students' psychology in order to achieve the best teaching effect. He updates the lecture notes every year, revolves around the basic concepts, basic knowledge and basic theories, and combines the new trends of legislation and judicature to rationally arrange the teaching content and consolidate the professional foundation of students; He is good at teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, flexibly using various teaching methods such as discussion, questioning, comparison and observation, cultivating students' ability to use basic knowledge and draw inferences from others, and inspiring students' enthusiasm for knowledge.
The civil law he talked about is a basic course for law majors, which is very rich in content and occupies a particularly important position in the education of law majors. As a scholar who has made great achievements in the field of civil law in China, Meng has long been familiar with his own knowledge of civil law. Nevertheless, he is not careless in preparing lessons. Sometimes, in order to find a good example to explain a concept and theory clearly, he will take pains to compare them one by one until he finds the most suitable one.
In the eyes of students, Meng is not only a jurist they admire, but also a respected teacher and the most reliable friend. In addition to learning difficulties and problems, students like to ask Mr. Meng for answers. Students also like to talk to Mr. Meng for advice because of setbacks in life and doubts in spiritual growth. Meng's mobile phone number and email address are open to students, so that students can find him at any time and ask him questions at any time. He also often talks with students about learning and being a man with his own life experience, and guides students to establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values with the deep care and love of an elder for the younger generation. The student said: "fair heart, iron mouth and hard pen" is his consistent requirement for students, which can be said to be the most true portrayal of teacher Meng's teaching and educating people. "
At sunset and dusk, you can often see such a scene on the campus of Guangxi University: Mr. and Mrs. Meng and three or five students are discussing problems while walking, which is another class of Mr. Meng. In order to have more time to contact with students and answer their questions, Meng spent all his time walking.
Meng loves his teaching career and his students, and has won the highest praise from students: in Guangxi University, he has won many excellent teaching quality awards and been rated as "a good teacher in my mind" by students for many times; In Wuhan University, the students gave him a comprehensive score of 97.6, which is close to perfect score.
"Teachers should love their students selflessly," Meng Guoqin said, and put this into practice. Meng, who is committed to "the noblest career under the sun", is undoubtedly another brilliant sun in the hearts of students.
(Chen Ruiqun)