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Joseph Samuel Nye, who is nearly 80 years old, is a world-renowned political science scholar. He graduated from Princeton University in his early years and later received Rhodes Scholarships. 〉Go to Oxford University for further study. After receiving a PhD in political science from Harvard University in 1964, he stayed as a professor and served as the dean of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. The most significant impact of Professor Joseph on the world was the first to put forward the concept of "soft power" in the 1980s. Professor
Joseph Samuel Nye
Joseph pointed out that Hard Power is the ability of a country to use its military or economic power to force or buy other countries. Soft power represents a third aspect of power besides military and economic power. It means that a country can make other countries obey the goals of the country through attractiveness and persuasiveness, so that the country can get what it wants. Political scholars agree that the soft power of a country mainly exists in resources such as cultural appeal, political values, ideology, and foreign policy. The master of the Jishi chapter of the Analects of Confucius in China said: "If you are not convinced by the people from afar, you will be able to develop Wende since then." Here, Wende is soft power. Professor
Joseph emphasized that hard power and soft power are both important. The key is how to properly combine hard power and soft power? Therefore, he put forward the idea of Smart Power. The development of a country’s hard power and soft power is first, which is more important, and which is less important. Professor Joseph does not want to give a general answer. He believes that both The situation should be reviewed and complement each other. However, many scholars have extended the concept of soft power and applied them to research in areas such as regions, enterprises, and personal development, and have formed discourses on regional soft power, corporate soft power, and personal soft power. If
education can cultivate a person's outstanding skill, it is the maximization and maximization of the value of education. I deeply understand the crux of the problem of Chinese raising children. Therefore, this article will focus on the weakness of Chinese education culture-soft power. I think that the right medicine is prescribed, and the cultivation of skillful strength is a natural beauty.
"Soft Power of Studying Abroad" is "Soft Power of Life", there are similarities in the same way!
Recently, an article has been circulated in WeChat Moments. The title is "Soft Power" often referred to by admissions officers. It is illusory and frustrating. Is it an excuse to reject students, or is it really that important? "I will answer this question first, "soft power" has become so important that it has become "the top priority"!
In the last year of the medical school interview at the University of Auckland, two-thirds of European children were admitted and two-thirds of Chinese children were rejected. I have never wanted to look at this issue with racial awareness. I would also like to remind Chinese parents and friends, Indian students who are also of Asian origin, the interview results of the University College of Medicine are significantly better than those of Chinese children; even for high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, there are far more Indians serving as senior executives. Chinese. What's the problem? "Soft power" too! The
WeChat article mentioned that the "soft power" that American college admissions officers focus on are the applicant's integrity, self-motivation, communication, problem-solving, teamwork, leadership, and time management. I am reading a book of "Academic Soft Skills" (issued by Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House, ISBN No. 978-7-5496-1556-8) co-authored by American Harvard scholar Kenn Ross and Mr. Sun Chao from Fudan University , Kenn Ross is also a Chinese son-in-law from elementary school. His comparison and understanding of East-West education is by no means a stalemate. The book's discussion of "soft power" is very incisive.
In the book "The Ability of Studying Ability in Soft Power", the author distinguishes "soft power" as shown in the attached table:
1. Multimodal Communication Ability (Multimodal Communications) 1. Public Speaking Ability (Public Speaki)ng> 2. Critical Writing Ability (Critical Writing) 3. Academic Communication Ability (Academic Communications) 4. Literature Search and Discovery Ability (Information Research) 5. Massive Reading Ability (Extensive Reading Comprehension) 6. Cross-cultural Response Ability (Cross) Cultural Adaptability> 2. Thinking ability
My original intention of writing this article is not to promote studying abroad. Please check them one by one. Regardless of whether the child goes abroad or not, the traits and abilities mentioned in the above table should be put to rest. The universal quality education element. I have been a human teacher all my life, and I have often lamented that "the teacher is easy to get, but the teacher is hard to find." The value and specialness of the "human teacher" is that he (she) can stimulate the "soft power" of students. In essence, the traits and abilities in the above table are the "personal soft power" that we can never use in our lifetime.
compassion, generosity, gratitude,
the most noble soft power in the world!
In 2014, the "Nobel Peace Prize" was awarded to a 17-year-old Pakistani girl Malala
Malala Yousafzai
She still does not fear power and insists on continuing to participate in this campaign to fight for girls' education rights. She said in the book "I am Malala": "Let us pick up books and pens. That is our most powerful weapon. A child, a teacher, a book and a pen can change the world. ｣I don’t want the world to remember her as a "girl shot by the Taliban", she hopes she is a "girl who struggles for education."
17 years old, can also change the world. Malala’s wisdom, courage, and compassion set the best example for this generation of children. When the adults are fighting for money and power, the little girl Malala, the "compassion from poverty" seems so noble and holy.
thinks of the little girl Malala, we should no longer blindly pursue academic masters, we should no longer praise success and competitiveness like icing on the cake.
It should be our most pragmatic and ardent expectation that children grow up to be able to base themselves in society. When working hard to cultivate children’s "personal soft power", please remember that "compassion, generosity, and gratitude" are the most noble soft power in the world. strength! It is the root of true, good and beautiful life!
column writer
teacher Zhang YuntengHe graduated from the Biology Department of Taiwan Normal University in his early years and taught at the High School Affiliated to Taipei Normal University. He served as a teacher for 25 years before immigrating to New Zealand. Teacher Zhang started to write the column "Mr. Zhang on Education" every Saturday for the New Zealand Chinese "Herald" in 2011.
He is the father of four children, and nearly 4,000 doctors in Taiwan are his students. Teacher Zhang loves life sciences, and he is also the original contributor to neuroscience and endocrine science-related articles in "Zhang's Dictionary of Psychology" (published by Donghua Book Company, Taiwan).
Teacher Zhang continues to pay attention to the global education trend. Over the years, he has done one-to-one consultation and tutoring for thousands of students and parents in learning courses, professional development, quality training, parent-child relationship, etc., and often organizes or is invited to participate in and education Question-related lectures.
Teacher Zhang has done a lot of homework and accumulated rich experience in "High-end Application for Undergraduates in American Universities". The children handled by him have spread to Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College, London School of Economics, University of London, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Dartmouth There are many top universities such as Sri Lanka, Brown, Rice, UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC, UIUC, NYU and so on.
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