On one night on January 16, 2024, a shocking ** case occurred in California, USA. The nature of this case is beyond people's imagination. The victim suffered several severe head wounds, and a forensic examination revealed that she was beaten to death by punch after punch,** showing "a high degree of cruelty, malice, and indifference."
What's even more unbelievable is that ** and the victim turned out to be Tsinghua scholars, and the victim was **'s wife. They all worked in Silicon Valley in the United States, and at the time of the crime, the victim Yu was a programmer at Google, and **Chen was a software engineer at Google. At only 27 years old, they have achieved such an enviable position in the world's top Internet companies and are regarded as the "kings" of the Chinese. However, now, one of the "kings" has become a ghost and the other has become a criminal.
This case originated from emotional problems, and there are different opinions about the truth behind the case. However, Liu Longzhu, a Chinese lawyer in the United States, emphasized that no matter what the reason, killing ** is unforgivable. According to the current law, **Chen** is likely to face a "first-class" charge.
Lawyer Liu Longzhu is well versed in the situation of the Chinese community in the United States, and has been involved in cases involving Chinese engineers in well-known companies such as Google, Facebook, and Nvidia. He pointed out that in these cases, most of the engineers involved were from top students, and even many of them were top students in college entrance examinations across China. Their careers are developing smoothly, but a considerable number of them have "high IQ and low emotional intelligence", act in extreme ways, and lack the ability to manage emotions.
Liu Longzhu's view accurately reflects a reality: academic qualifications do not represent character, IQ is not the same as emotional intelligence, and technical ability does not mean good moral character. This also reflects one of the major problems of China's higher education: today's university education focuses more on cultivating talents, and ignores the importance of general education. Universities should not only cultivate professional talents, but also cultivate educated, educated, thoughtful and moral people.
However, this was not the case with early university education in China. ** Comprehensive universities, like those in the United States, practiced general education, aiming to make students generalists before they became specialists. This philosophy focuses on cultivating students' humanistic qualities and comprehensive abilities, and is committed to cultivating educated, civilized and sound people.
However, all this changed completely after 1952 when the Soviet model of education began to be copied. Universities are divided into faculties, focusing on the training of professionals and ignoring the importance of liberal education. Although the university still retains its name as "university", it has in fact become a higher vocational school.
Since even university students do not have access to a comprehensive general education, those who do not have a university education lack such opportunities. This has led to a generally low quality of society as a whole.
However, for those who wish to break free from the limitations of education and become civilized people who can think independently and have sound minds, there is still a way to go: self-learning.
And one of the best ways to achieve self-general education is to study the history of world civilization. Studying the history of world civilization not only brings you in touch with a wealth of multidisciplinary knowledge, but also cultivates a variety of ways of thinking and a broad perspective. It's not just about giving you a job, it's about making you a highly educated person.
In the process of studying the history of world civilization, Will Durant's "History of World Civilization" is a masterpiece worth recommending. This Pulitzer Prize-winning book is rich in content and covers a wide range of knowledge. No matter which page of the book you start reading, you can appreciate the splendor of civilization.
Regrettably, however, even those universities that value liberal arts rarely use the History of World Civilizations as a textbook. The textbooks used in general general education courses are limited to a few hundred pages, which can only be regarded as an outline of the history of civilization, and there is still a big gap between them and real general education.