“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. “In a modern society, there are many complex questions, this passage’s suggestion is a good advice, but it is not practical. First, depending the student to solve the world’s most persistence social problems is impractical. The student’s purpose in a university is to learn some basic knowledge and have some preparation for their future work, and the university’s duty is to teach them such knowledge and the basic living ability. we can not say the student do not want to have such research, but they are just lack of such ability. Nevertheless maybe there are some very excellent students or the graduate students can do such research, but it is incommensurate with the spend for building a large global university.
Second, the idea that just one large global university can solve all persistent social problem is ridiculous. It is not a easy work to build a university, they need a large square of field, build many teaching buildings and the student’s dormitories. And they also need recruit many famous teachers and attract students to study in their school. All these will cost a lot of money, any beneficial research will happen in several years later. It is better to spend this money to establish many social problem research centers in many existed different universities, We can invite many famous scholars from different countries as long as give the best research condition. The result will be better than establish another university, we can save a lot of money too.
Third, the government’s role is important in solving any persistence social problem. In many countries, we need the government’s corporation to treat the social problem. such as the drug production, we are easy to think that the farmers who cultivate the opium is a evil. But the fact is many farmers depend on the production of the opium because their soil is too barren to support themselves in producing the grain. So if you want to prohibit the opium production you must pay some subsidies for the farmers who decide to eschew the opium production, that will cost a lot and only government can support that. Unless the good research for the treatment of the social problem is accepted by the government we will be very difficult to implement our treatment.
So we must pinpoint the resolution for every social problem, and find some effective and practical way. We can make use of all the current research institutions and create some new one according to the need. All nations can pay their tribute to them, and accommodate the researchers with the best condition. For every researchers they can change their views often, hold the international seminars often. For the government they should be more democratic and eager to solve these persistent social problem.