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As the speaker claims, though in different nations, the circumstances differ, there do exist some problems that all nations share and suffer. Setting up a global university would ultimately serve the interests of all the countries for the purpose of solving the world's most persistent social problems. However, at the same time we must take the certain risks into account, and all the participating nations need to pay attentions to minimize the danger, or the original purpose may be defeated. On one hand, the benefit of a global university, to a large extent, is related with the global nature of the existing problems. Dating back to the huge waves of flu, none of the current nations could ever escape the disaster and save only himself. Ranging from the global warmth to the current financial crisis, we could rarely find any social problems that effect only on a small part of the earth. In this way, the solution of the problems has to be discussed by all the participating countries, thus the global university serves as a steady and outstanding forum for this.
On the other hand, the advantages of the global university lie in the altitude perspective.
In other words, the benefit of the university has much to do with the global nature of itself. How one reads is determined by what he has read. The different backgrounds of the students and scholars will certainly provide different perspectives to a certain problem, thus putting up with different solutions. By combination of all the solutions and debate of the approaches, we may get a much better key to the problems.
However the establishment of such a university poses certain problems, which, if not well controlled, might outweigh the benefits mentioned above. First of all, the different approaches that scholars read a certain problem may cause great differences, which might result in fierce debate and conflicts that waste time and money. Additionally, coming to some social problems, there will certainly be conflicts between nations and areas, which may cause a myriad of administrative and political impediment. Finally, the establishment of such universities may lead to the wave of focusing the intellectual talent only on the world wide problems while leaving behind the parochial problem.
In the final analysis, the global university would amount to a double-edged sword which serves as an efficient solution of the world’s most persisting social problems, but at the same time plays the role of the troublemaker. Only if all the participating nations spare no effort in defeating the drawbacks can the global university really make significant effect on the track of human’s civilization. |