w88 casino News Network (Reporter Li Wenjun)“I think general education is classical education. What is classical education? That is reading the classics. "At 19:00 on April 8, the King of General Education Lecture Room Yu Guang's special lecture and the opening ceremony of the 2nd w88 casino Reading Festival were held in the Chengxin three-story international conference hall.

Wang Yuguang is a professor at Peking University. He is committed to research in philology, reading culture and modern publishing industry. He has published many books and is currently professor and director of the Department of Information Management at Peking University.

Wang Yuguang’s speech

At the beginning of the lecture, Wang Yuguang introduced the background of this event. Wang Yuguang said that people's lives are occupied by mobile phones, computers, etc., leaving less and less time for reading, and many people read e-books and abandon paper books. On the debate between paper books and e-books, Wang Yuguang insisted that paper books should be read. He gave an example that in Su Dongpo's time, printing had not yet become popular. Song Dongpo relied on copying books to read. Later, with the popularization of printing, people read more and more conveniently, but at the same time they became less and less profound. The same is true for the current handover and transformation of electronic and paper books.

Wang Yuguang then began to elaborate on his central point of view. Nowadays, many universities are slowly beginning to pay attention to general education in order to provide students with a comprehensive platform. Wang Yuguang believes that general education is not a pile of encyclopedic knowledge, but a classical education. Classical education is about reading the classics. So why read the classics? Professor Wang Yuguang quoted Liang Qichao: "As a Chinese scholar, it is necessary to read some traditional Chinese classics. Classics can guide you when you are confused. ”

In our era, people have value divisions on many things, but many of our doubts can be answered in ancient culture. In addition, he also mentioned,Society is filled with the pollution of consumerism and mediocre taste. Reading classics can allow students to temporarily escape from the real society, thereby effectively improving their cultivation in ancient classics. At the end of his speech, he also suggested building a classic literature reading room in universities to cultivate an academic atmosphere for studying ancient classics.

Question session

Finally came the question-and-answer session, and everyone enthusiastically raised their own questions. One of the students asked whether Jin Yong's books were classics. Wang Yuguang said that Jin Yong's books have a wide audience, but classics must accumulate over time.

This event is sponsored by the Communist Youth League w88 casino Committee and hosted by the w88 casino Student Union.

Group photo

Attachment: Wang Yuguang recommended books: Chinese works: "The Book of Songs", "Zhuangzi", "The Analects", "Han Feizi", "Zuo Zhuan", "Historical Records", "Laozi", "Mencius", "Chu Ci", "Xunzi" Western works: Shakespeare's works, "Dialogues" (Plato) Darwin's "The Origin of Species", Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Whitman, "Leaves of Grass", "The Bible" "Homer" "War and Peace" "The Red and the Black" "The Divine Comedy"