Recently, the dean of a college of the University sent his post reading comments after reading my article "famous teachers make excellent students". He was familiar with the professor mentioned in the article. He said: "Professor XX has made a lot of efforts in cultivating students. The key is that he loves students and is highly responsible to students. Some of our professors are unwilling to spend time on students and are busy with various activities and entertainment all day. Some are 'arranged' or volunteer to work in some management positions. Cumbersome management work takes up most of their time, but they are not willing to train students, This is the current situation. "As an old teacher in the University siege for decades, I naturally know and understand that the phenomenon referred to by the dean is true.

A well-known professor (IEEE fellow) from the school of computer science, Nanyang University of Technology (NTU), Singapore, has just received a forwarding from a professor of a key university E-mail to him. The professor is the same age as NTU professor and has made fruitful scientific research achievements. He and NTU are good friends for more than 10 years. They have cooperated in scientific research for many years. They know their roots and trust each other. The professor wants him to take some time to listen to the academic reports of graduate students in the research group online, and then give some targeted suggestions on graduate study and research. However, NTU Professor replied: I am so Sorry. I am currently busy with so many teaching and editorial works Professor NTU did not have time to meet the professor's request, but promised to give their graduate students and team teachers a scientific chicken soup report entitled an introduction to writing survey / review paper. Teaching belongs to the professional work of university professors, and journal editing belongs to the nature of social services. Professor NTU's letter expressed the essence of the daily responsibilities of a famous university professor Work. I have visited NTU twice and contacted their professors. I have some knowledge of their university teaching work, especially appreciate NTU professor's serious and responsible spirit of undergraduate education. In fact, as far as I know, European and American universities generally pay more attention to professors' participation in undergraduate training and education. Because undergraduate education, as the basis of national scientific and technological talent training, is very important Sex is self-evident. Therefore, I think of the old topic of our university: university professors and student growth education.

In my impression of the work of our university professors, apart from the rigid tasks of classroom teaching arranged by the University, a large number of other things related to the growth of undergraduate students seem to belong to conscience work. Some well-known professors are reluctant to undertake the tasks of undergraduate classroom teaching, and even participate in some undergraduate extracurricular activities (an important position of student growth education) Guidance is also regarded as "foreign affairs". At present, the performance appraisal mechanism of "emphasizing scientific research rather than teaching" widely implemented in Chinese universities is a great challenge to undergraduate education. Professors' daily work is mainly "three struggles" with a certain degree of utilitarian color: striving for scientific research projects, striving for SCI papers, striving for academic honorary titles (including Awards). "Three struggles" It can bring many benefits to professors, and schools can also obtain various indicators required for social ranking, which seems to be a "win-win". As for matters related to the growth of undergraduate students, most of them belong to flexible "extra" that have no binding force on teacher assessment and professional title promotion Work. It is impossible to cultivate high-quality college students in such a university education environment. Sir Lester borisevich, President of Cambridge University, put forward a basic element of ideal college students: "High academic talent, the potential to study hard, must have independent personality, have the ability to think freely academically, have ambition, constantly spur themselves and have the ambition to change the world" (Liu Qingsheng, listening to the president of Cambridge University tell the true meaning of the University, ScienceNet, August 4, 2012) I think it would be impossible for such a big student to achieve the training goal without the one-to-one guidance and exchange mechanism between teachers and students of their college system. As the president of Yale University said in his speech on the centennial anniversary of Tsinghua University, "our undergraduate freshmen are very lucky because we arrange for them to communicate with our famous professors one hour a week."

The concept of modern university education tells us that the learning and growth experience of undergraduate students is not limited to professional learning (classroom teaching, experimental teaching, internship teaching and graduation design) , especially for those key universities in China that claim to impact the world-class level, they need to pay more attention to and guide college students' learning of knowledge outside the classroom. As the president of Harvard University said, college students learn more knowledge outside the classroom than in the classroom. Richard Levin (president of Yale University from 1993 to 2013, a world-renowned educator) said: "If a student has some professional knowledge and skills after graduating from Yale University, it is the biggest failure of Yale education. The core of undergraduate education is general knowledge, which is to cultivate students' ability to think critically and independently and lay the foundation for lifelong learning. Universities do not teach knowledge and skills, but can make people competent for any discipline and occupation and give full play to their personal freedom These undoubtedly correct university education concepts require our university managers and teaching staff, especially well-known professors, to take time out of their busy schedule to learn higher education knowledge and have the awareness and capital to serve students.

Professors' participation in college students' growth education is rich and colorful, which can be reflected in classroom teaching. For example, my college physics teacher Mr. Jiang Zhi taught us to think more about learning knowledge. "In class, Mr. Jiang often stressed that our students should 'think more' in their study. Because Mr. Jiang said so much about 'think more', our classmates gave him the nickname of 'think more teacher' after class. Maybe some students thought it was just a joke title, but I kept Mr. Jiang's' think more teaching 'in mind. Thinking more' has become my long-term goal Habitual thinking in scientific research. "(Liu Qingsheng, many senior teachers on the academic road, ScienceNet, August 10, 2018) However, it is more reflected outside the classroom. The school management organization should reasonably set up a regular communication system between professors and students, including the basic content and time guarantee of communication. For example, the college system of Southern University of science and technology requires each professor to participate in student communication for no less than 50 hours a year. Therefore, our professors should not easily refuse the request of students who take the initiative to communicate on site, but should change their attitude Read, don't think it's a waste of time to spend a little time communicating with students. I believe that many proverbs and beautiful scenes of university professors actively participating in college students' growth education will become their glorious memory of "I'm proud of school today", which is a good thing with boundless merit and virtue.