Today, Zhao Lingyun, the principal of CCNU(Central China Normal University), gave a lecture on labor education theory course entitled "Labor Fulfills Dreams" to the freshmen at Youming Gymnasium. It is the first time that the university's labor education theory class is taught intensively.
At the beginning of this year, the university issued The Promotion Plan for High-level Undergraduate Education, gradually building a high-level undergraduate education system that took students as the center and combined moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor education. And the labor education course as a full-time undergraduate compulsory course is officially included in the undergraduate talent training program with 2 credits, of which 0.5 points are for theoretical courses and 1.5 points are for practical courses.
In the first labor education theory class of the school, Principal Zhao Lingyun started from the students' eating, folding quilts, arranging their dormitories, cleaning the classroom and campus, learning from the model workers and other people and things around the students, educating the students with very vivid examples. He said, "People work throughout their lifetime and receive different forms of labor education since they have the ability to work. Labor and labor education accompany people's life." Then, he discussed the value and significance of labor with the students around three aspects. “Labor is man's vocation, labor is the foundation of life and labor fulfills dreams.” He emphasized,“Labor is the way of expression and proof of man. Each of us must shoulder the vocation of labor all our life and take labor as a lifestyle.”
Principal Zhao Lingyun pointed out that labor is man's vocation. There are three main reasons: first, labor creates human beings; second, labor creates wealth; third, labor creates progress. In his view, labor is the foundation of life. On one hand, labor determines a person's world view, values, philosophy and views on happiness, career, time, wealth, consumption, learning and oneself. Labor and labor education play a special and important role in the process of talent growth and education, and labor shapes people's spiritual outlook. On the other hand, labor is the foundation of the education system named "Five Education Simultaneously" of moral education, intellectual education, physical education, aesthetic education and physical education. Labor is the foundation of life, mind and morality.
Labor, he said, fulfills dreams. "Labor education is to work in study, study in work, work in labor, labor in work, and achieve dreams through labor!" He encouraged young students to work hard in the following directions. First, arm their minds with Marxist views on labor. We should firmly establish a correct concept of labor, advocate labor, respect workers, learn from model workers, and cultivate the spirit of model workers in the new era, which means to love the profession, strive for first-class, work hard and struggle arduously, be brave in innovation, be indifferent to fame and wealth, and be willing to contribute. Second, practice the spirit of CCNU through labor. As a key normal university directly under the Ministry of Education, CCNU attaches great importance to teaching practice and labor education. One of the characteristics of CCNU education system is to emphasize practice and operation. The CCNU spirit of "loyalty, elegance, simplicity and fortitude" is a vivid interpretation of the labor spirit. People from CCNU should use the spirit of CCNU to guide learning and labor, and use labor to promote the spirit of CCNU. Third, we should actively devote ourselves to work and use it to create ourselves. We should start from the small things around us, realize the happiness and greatness of labor with practice, carve and cultivate ourselves with practical labor actions, achieve our dream of success with labor, achieve our common dream of CCNU with labor, and achieve the great Chinese Dream with labor.
It is understood that since this year, the school has explored the implementation way of labor education in a planned and step-by-step way. During the winter and summer holidays, students have also carried out "Five Ones" family work. At the end of May in the first half of the year, 2019 graduates have carried out the collective work of "hard to leave Guizi Mountain" in Boya Square to renovate the lawn. Numerous students splashed sweat, recalled the past and appreciated life when working. On the basis of exploring these nearby labor practices, the school specially organized and compiled school-based labor education textbooks with CCNU characteristics.
Translator:Huang Linjing Date: 2019/11/04
