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       For the college students who will enter but do not enter, who have entered but do not understand, who are lost, this pamphlet is worth reading if it is regarded as a guiding light or as a dream.The reason for this kind of bipolar

evaluation is that: for those who have no firm will and do not know the purpose of learning, what it says cannot be understood or done;People who are clear about their own ideals and intellectual pursuits take for granted what it says.

The book exudes an air of idealism and even genteel elegance, but that does not obscure the insights that shine from the first page of the introduction to the last page of chapter 9.Three words sum up the author's philosophy: academic

freedom, the pursuit of truth and intellectual nobility.The book was written at the end of Hitler's dictatorship and the defeat of Germany in world war ii, when German universities were as devastated as Chinese universities are today. Students

gave up independent thinking and professors just wanted to keep their heads above water.What is a university when a community of students and scholars is facing such harsh times?"The university is a place where, with the approval of the 

state and society, a particular period of time is set aside to cultivate the clearest sense of self as far as possible.People live here for the sole purpose of seeking the truth.For it is a human right, that somewhere one may seek the truth without

any restriction, and for the truth's sake."The desire for freedom, the pursuit of truth, the search for ignorance, the conviction of reason, the assumption of science, the doubt of absurdity, ask yourself how far along we have come.

2019-06-30

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