(Beijing News) The incident of slips of the tongue by Lin Jianhua, president of Peking University, continues to ferment.He issued a public apology letter the day before yesterday, which unexpectedly attracted even more controversy. Some people criticized him for allowing the Cultural Revolution to take the blame for his mistakes, and pointed out that he made a more serious mistake than a typo in his understanding of doubts.
In his apology letter, Lin Jianhua mentioned the Cultural Revolution many times when he reviewed his educational experience.He said that when he was in elementary and middle school, he was catching up with the Cultural Revolution, and education had almost stagnated.
As the principal of the highest university in China, Lin Jianhua has the courage to publicly apologize for his typo, and his frankness and sincerity have been affirmed by the outside world.However, in his letter, he talked about the impact of the Cultural Revolution on his basic education, and it was also believed that he wanted the Cultural Revolution to pay for his typos.
Some netizens pointed out that this method of imputation is illogical. Since Lin Jianhua was able to be admitted to the Department of Chemistry of Peking University, it shows that the Cultural Revolution and geographical location were not obstacles to his pursuit of knowledge and advancement.Everyone misread Honghu as Honghao.
It was also pointed out that Lin Jianhua only talked about the influence of the Cultural Revolution on his education, but as the president of the university, he only mentioned the profound influence of Mao Zedong's works and Soviet socialist teaching on his thoughts and concepts in his letter, but did not have any impact on the education caused by the Cultural Revolution.Missing to reflect.
In addition, Lin Jianhua said in his letter of apology that anxiety and doubts cannot create value, but will hinder our progress towards the future. This sentence also caused controversy.
Critics believe that the essence of thinking is criticism, and the driving force of science is precisely questioning.It can be said that questioning can open up the room for progress in the destiny of mankind, and all civilization and progress in human society begins with questioning.If a university does not have free thinking and independent personality, how can it become a first-class university and cultivate top talents? As a scholar, Lin Jianhua said such words that are out of scientific common sense, which makes people surprised.
Some netizens also bluntly stated that Lin Jianhua is not suitable to continue serving as the president of Peking University and should resign immediately.
Lin Jianhua's slip of the tongue incident originated from the 120th anniversary celebration held by Peking University on the 4th.In his speech, he pronounced Honghu (hoacute;ng huacute;) as hoacute;ng hagrave;o, Xin of Xinxin students as jīn, and earnestly teaching (zhūn) as dūn.Some netizens ridiculed that these are words that junior high school students can already read, and that the president of Peking University made a low-level mistake, but some people think that no one is perfect and mistakes are inevitable.
