Last Friday, we took a brief trip to ECU Joondalup campus and had a joyous time there. Under the guard of Mr. Zhang, we visited the whole campus, including the splendid wooden gate and two other award-wining buildings.
Across the visiting, I found a interesting fact about the campus in Australia. Comparing them with china, none of them has walls or borders.
In china, with an aim at separating them from the commercial and residential areas, nearly every university would build walls. In some way, this policy resulted in criticism and blames, people censure that the domestic university is never as open as foreign university. As a result, although our students have become a adult legally, they are still in bandage of different rules and couldn’t learn to be independent.
However, just as a coin has two sides, this issue also gets two aspects to think about. Basically, those who study in universities are called students, bachelors, masters, doctors and professors, whose task is to conduct academic researches. Important and precious as they are (whether for society or country), they need to be protect to maintain normal study and research life.
Besides, in china we university students are widely expected to give feedback to their family and society, even country(so they need to be protect). It might be another reason which can answer why most Chinese university have walls or fences.
So we can not simply generalize but to discuss this issue dialectically under the influence of specific national conditions and cultural characteristics.
It is this week’s blog, a little thought towards the cultural difference between china and Australia’s university, about the walls.
WRITTEN BY CAESAR
9. 9. 2019
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