介绍:
Well-known 93-year-old Wu Liangyong (吴良镛), a Chinese architect and academic of both Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, has made a speech on "Chinese postgraduates pursuing their dreams" in the Great Hall of the People. The 35-minute speech is part of a symposium held by the local education department in Beijing aimed at promoting postgraduates' moral level. Over 6,000 fresh postgraduate students, organized by their universities, attended this symposium. But during Professor Wu's speech, lots of them fell asleep on the table.
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(QD) Cha Yuan Piao Xiang says on blog.sina.com.cn,
The topic is much too large and empty! No wonder so many students fell asleep in the process. Ideal, dream, moral level, such kind of words are much too abstract and above our daily life. They're so boring that every time you hear these words you would feel sleepy. But from primary school to university, every mainland student is tortured by lectures of this kind for countless times. It's something that they simply can't get rid of. If I was one of the listeners, I would also have fallen asleep on the table.
(JA) Xinxinzai expresses his anger on weibo.com,
Dear students, please pay some respect to this 93-year-old scientist! He's even older than your grandparents. He stood for over half an hour for the speech and you sit and listen. Even if his lecture is not so attractive, hold on and wait him to finish it and then fall asleep. It's the basic respect we should have to an elderly citizen, not to mention a well-known scientist.
(LK) While Lei Pingze points out on yangtse.com,
The academician is 93 years old! First of all, it's kind of inhumane to arrange an old man at his age for a public speech. The organizer should really have thought twice before making such a request. In addition, the content of his speech is not so close to students' daily life, even though Mr. Wu said he had tried his best to do so. Listening to a speech not so attractive for over half an hour can easily trigger listeners' sleepiness.
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This symposium was jointly held by China Association for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Social Science, as well as the Beijing municipal government.
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(QD) Zhang Zhang says on gzdaily.dayoo.com,
Don't forget the over 6,000 students were "organized" by their universities to attend this symposium. In other words, some of them were forced to do so rather than out of their free wills. If you were forced to do something that you don't like, would you feel happy? For me, I would protest against the organizer in one way or another to unleash my dissatisfaction. I think that should be the very reason why so many students fell asleep during the lecture. Silent protest, I believe.
(LK) Rui Fan makes his suggestion on blog.ifeng.com,
There're hundreds of thousands of postgraduate students in Beijing. It's not so difficult to select 6,000 out of them who're truly interested in the topic of moral level. Give these students this opportunity and they would cherish it a lot. Why the organizer allocate quotas to universities rather than try to attract those truly interested in the topic? That's their dereliction of duty.
(JA) While Xiaoyao 0425 disagrees on weibo.com,
I'm one of the students at present in the Great Hall of the People that day. Yeah there were some of us falling asleep in the process, but not so many as indicated by the photos on the internet. It's just a small portion of students. Therefore such harsh criticism is unjustifiable.
