This is the topic that President Ye of China Agricultural University gave a speech at the graduation ceremony of the School of Humanities and Development of China Agricultural University on June 2 1 2023, and was called the president of the university by netizens. The best graduation speech of a university president is one without slogans and flowery words.
Among them, it is said that under the temptation of power and return training, it is actually difficult for everyone to be immune. Nevertheless, I hope you won't become exquisite and smooth because of the attraction of power. Don't become arrogant and willful because of the domination of power; Don't become numb and confused because of the norms of power.
There is no difference between good and bad power in essence, but the practice of power may not only lead to lying and doing bad things worse than ugliness, but also realize honesty, truthfulness, accumulate wealth and do good deeds and improve aesthetics.
Faced with the encirclement of power, people may forget the people because they only have power in their eyes, forget the truth because of the omnipotence of power, and forget the people behind them and the meaning of work because of the mechanical implementation of power. In this way, although you can get some honor, you lack virtue, maybe you can enjoy some happiness, but you lack happiness, maybe you can have some authority, but you lack respect.
I hope you will not put out the light of truth, goodness and beauty in the depths of your souls, and I hope you will keep the courage to run freely to the light of truth, goodness and beauty. Even if you fall, you can smile. Your running may make more people equal, let more people enjoy freedom and let more people be respected.
Ye Zhongjing, Vice President of China Agricultural University.
Ye, 1967, a native of Shuyang County, Jiangsu Province, is the dean, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Humanities and Development of China Agricultural University. Research areas include development history and development criticism, development intervention and social transformation, rural society and agricultural policy changes, labor mobility and left-behind population, small-scale agriculture and land politics, rural education and social issues.
The research mainly adopts anthropological methods and disciplinary analysis perspectives of sociology, political economy, politics and post-structuralism. He has published more than 0/00 papers in Chinese and English, and published more than 30 monographs, editors and translators.
He has won the first prize and the third prize of the 6th and 7th Outstanding Achievement Award of Scientific Research in Colleges and Universities (Humanities and Social Sciences), the first prize and the second prize of the 10th and 11th Outstanding Achievement Award of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Beijing, the 4th China Rural Development Research Award, the 9th Young Teacher Award of Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation, the Excellent Teacher Award of Baosteel and the title of Excellent Expert of the State Forestry Administration. Enjoy the special government allowance of the State Council, and be selected into the New Century Excellent Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education and the Hundred Talents Project of Social Science Theory in Beijing in the New Century.