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Many people have become arrogant, dismissive of other countries, or uncomfortable when they mention the advantages of others, and must say a bunch of other people's shortcomings to be at ease. This mentality is very naïve.
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On November 1, 2021, at the 4th World Top Scientists Forum in Shanghai, John Edward Hopcroft, a 1986 Turing Award winner and professor at Cornell University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, gave a speech entitled "Open Science: Science Communication and Talent Development" (Turing Award Winner: China Should Focus on the Quality of Undergraduate Education, Rather than Research Funding and The Number of Papers). He has been working at Shanghai Jiao Tong University for 10 years, so he knows a lot about education in China.
He said: I teach the same courses at Cornell and Shanghai Jiaotong University for freshmen. I found that freshmen at Shanghai Jiaotong University were better than top universities in the United States. But when I confronted these Chinese students again four years later, I found that Cornell had outnumbered them. This means that a university education in China is not successful.
Let me comment. It is important to open your eyes to the world, it is important to know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, and it is important for someone to give us frank advice, which is the root of progress. I have been on the Internet for so many years, and a big impression is that many people do not know that the sky is high, and the world they imagine is completely different from the real world.
For example, when it comes to the chip industry, many people think that chip technology was invented Chinese, and then said that China's chips were originally very advanced, and they all blamed the abandonment of research and development after the reform and opening up. It's a completely misconception that they have no idea who invented the transistor, who came up with Moore's Law, who invented lithography, and, more fundamentally, who came up with quantum mechanics — these are the contributions of foreign scientists. (Recommended watch: "Chip is difficult, is it difficult to have two bombs and one star?" |.) Yuan Lanfeng" https://www.ixigua.com/6917167952609575431)
The reason why they think that chip technology was invented Chinese is probably because they have seen some reports that Lin Benjian invented immersive lithography and Hu Zhengming invented FinFET, and then they thought that these were all. In fact, these inventions are good and important, but they are all improvements on existing technologies that were originally proposed by foreign scientists. It's like Chen Jingrun proving that goldbach's "1 + 2" is remarkable, but if you think that Chinese mathematics is already the strongest in the world, you are very wrong, because you don't know that mathematicians in other countries have achieved more, more important, and more basic results.
The same is true in education, where the mainland has made great progress, but there are still many deficiencies. However, many people have become arrogant, disdainful of other countries, or uncomfortable when they mention the advantages of others, and must say a bunch of other people's shortcomings to be at ease. Such a mentality is very naïve, and such a person does not speak to understand the world, but to vent his emotions. For example, the news coverage in some countries is always how successful they are and how unsuccessful their opponents are, do you think this is a sign of confidence or a sign of not being confident? And Deng Xiaoping repeatedly praised the achievements of foreign countries, clearly saying that we should learn from others, do you think this is a manifestation of self-confidence or a manifestation of non-self-confidence? Being able to calmly face the advantages of others and their own shortcomings, and realistically understand the world and transform the world is the real maturity and self-confidence.