- 最后登录
- 2010-12-22
- 在线时间
- 238 小时
- 寄托币
- 2157
- 声望
- 9
- 注册时间
- 2005-3-30
- 阅读权限
- 35
- 帖子
- 25
- 精华
- 0
- 积分
- 1869
- UID
- 203387
 
- 声望
- 9
- 寄托币
- 2157
- 注册时间
- 2005-3-30
- 精华
- 0
- 帖子
- 25
|
11"All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems."
20:39 2005-8-19
Should all nations help support the development of a global university as the author proposed? While the establishment of a global university indeed could bring certain benefits, the author ignores many other factors that may make the plan impractical.
Admittedly, since all the faculties and students come from different countries, they have different cultural backgrounds and perspectives toward the same problems. Through the discussion, the best methods could be made out more effectively. Besides, this plan would be comprehensive with integrated ideas but unlikely to be prejudiced. Some many argue that the diverse backgrounds may impede their necessary communication, resulting in this university’s ineffectiveness. However, such worrisome are unwarranted. With today's easily available information around the world through internet, people from different countries are becoming more and more familiar with each other’s cultures. From this point of view, the global university is a good idea.
The establishment of such a global university could shed light on many difficult problems which greatly needs the collective efforts of diverse experts' cooperation concerning the knowledge and also accumulative supports from diverse countries concerning the funds. For example, the more and more serious global warming trend has imposed negative influence on most countries in the world. On the one hand, to solve this problem, knowledge from different fields is needed such as chemistry, geography, and physics and so on. On the other hand, this problem involves pollution prevention in many countries in the world and also such project needs a lot of money that is unaffordable to only one nation. All these elements require the efforts of different nations' participation and the global university is the one in point.
However, many other problems may be counterproductive to this plan. The first problem is the fact that in today's world, many countries have totally different economical and political situations. Some countries could afford the required money to establish a global university; the same amount of money may seem to be a sky number to other countries. Besides, the criteria on judging what are the most persistent social problems maybe totally different in various nations. For instance, the United States may be more concerned about how to expand the economy and keep a balance between economical development and environment protection, some other countries in Africa, where regional conflicts are continuous, are more cared about how to end the war and create a peaceful circumstance for further development. Such problems are inevitable in reality and must be dealt with well before the foundation of the global university.
Another problem involves the political aspect. While the establishment of such a global university needs all nations' supports, it is inevitable that every nation wants the university to develop as much close as possible to the direction that is advantageous to the agenda o f oneself. The results may lead to the disagreement on the arrangement of distribution on what should be at the top of the list of most persistent social problems. The political factor makes the establishment much more complex than what we have thought of.
In conclusion, although the plan to establishment of a global university is the ideal, it is impractical in real world because of a large pool of problems begging the realization of such goal.
21:22 2005-8-19 |
|