"Withdraw the lawsuit, Lawyer Kitahara." Shimokawa's face was rather haggard, and his whole figure seemed to have gone through a long period of mental torture that had completely drained his soul. The body that used to be somewhat upright, at this moment, seemed like

He shrank like a rickety old man.

In the classical history teaching and research room, four people were sitting - Shimokawa, Hirose, Kitahara, and Miyagawa.

On the desk, there was an "Application for Withdrawal of the Prosecution", and the end of the A4 paper had been stamped with a bright red signature. Everything seemed like there was no turning back.

"Teacher Shimokawa, can you tell me what happened?" Kitahara looked at the man in front of him who had lost his fighting spirit and said. After the trial, he received a call from Shimokawa during lunch, saying that he wanted to talk.

, the lawsuit might have to be withdrawn, so Tong Gongchuan immediately rushed to the teaching and research office.

"A few days ago, students from the teaching and research office came again." Hirose lowered his head slightly, his eyes a little dim, "They have been kneeling collectively at the door of the teaching and research office. They did not speak or protest, they just knelt.

Some students were crying and kneeling on the ground. Many teachers and students in the teaching and research building saw it."

"I'm sorry, Lawyer Kitahara." Shimokawa slowly raised his head and placed a cup of tea in front of the young lawyer, "I think it's too much to let my students lose their degrees just because of this incident.

It was too cruel. So, I agreed to them."

"After all, for students who study hard in the cold window, a degree is the most important thing. I also experienced the same way back then. Especially for doctoral students. It is too cruel to not have a degree." Shimochuan said quietly.

He said, "As for me, this time things have already turned out like this. I will definitely not be able to stay at Kyoto University any longer. So I might as well give the opportunity to the students."

Listening to these words, Miyagawa became anxious in his heart, "Now is the final moment of this lawsuit. If you choose, you will really fall short."

"Actually, from the moment I chose to start my teaching career in this way, the result of falling short was already doomed." Shimokawa's voice was a little hoarse as he said:

"In the past, I was still full of too much idealism. Yes, I was full of too much idealism. At that time, I felt that the university should first be a place to teach and educate people, and we could not turn the university into a unique place.

The scientific research office of the faculty and staff. University teachers cannot just immerse themselves in writing papers and ignore the teaching of undergraduate students.”

"You know, Lawyer Kitahara, Lawyer Miyagawa. At Kyoto University, the highest institution in the East, I have met many teachers. What they call class is to take out a textbook and then teach in class

Just read to the textbook."

"It's okay if young scholars do this. After all, they are burdened with too much scientific research pressure. In order to get tenure, they can no longer spend extra time preparing lessons."

"But...but, you know, Lawyer Beihara."

Shimokawa's hands gradually began to tremble, and his eyes gradually became bloodshot. "In the end, I sadly discovered that for scholars who have obtained tenured teaching positions, they simply regard teaching students as a burden. In

At the academic affairs meeting, several well-known professors actually took turns trying to avoid teaching a required professional course for undergraduates! Yes, no one was willing to come forward to teach such a crucial professional required course.

.You know, Lawyer Kitahara, this is the current situation of our university."

"The young people who attend classes in universities are the talents of our country. If these young talents can be more carefully cultivated in universities, then they will surely become our country's outstanding talents faster and better."

"However, the cold reality is that young scholars who have not received tenure cannot spare time to teach. And scholars who have obtained tenure do not want to teach."

"The most outstanding talents who passed the college entrance examination and sat in university classrooms were brutally slaughtered, but they received the worst education in the university they most admired. You said, it's not ridiculous. Our university has become a ruin.

Tireless cold agency.”

"I have never understood why scholars who have obtained tenured teaching positions still want to continue to make money for themselves. Why are they unwilling to devote more energy to students after having stable security?

.”

"Now, I understand."

Shimochuan's originally somewhat excited tone slowly calmed down, "What's the use of teaching students well? Yes, what's the use? There are even some people who want to question you. Students like your lectures.

On the contrary, it is not a good thing because you cater to the students too much."

"In the past, I have always simply believed that in the ivory tower of the university, as long as you teach students well and do academic work well, you can stay there safely. But I was wrong. What determines your stay in this ivory tower?

The position is neither teaching nor academic works, but the group of people at the top of the tower."

"Teaching cannot have an important position in universities, because it is tantamount to transferring part of the evaluation power to students. As for doing knowledge and writing papers, it is not to pursue the truth, but to please the group at the top of the tower.

People. You must include the works of the people at the top of your paper in order to increase the citation rate of their papers. The academic point of view must give way to the point of view of the school. You must always keep an eye on the tower.

The respect of those people."

"This is obviously the so-called ivory tower, but there is even more serious subservience than the so-called social workplace. Scholars who are supposed to have independent personalities must kneel down to the group of people at the top of the tower and stick out their tongues in order to change.

Give them a little bit of resources as a charity."

"No one is discussing academics here. The reason is very simple, because academics themselves must be a process of controversy. And as long as there is controversy, it will inevitably be accompanied by challenges to authority. Therefore, the so-called academic discussion has completely become

It’s a false compliment. The so-called academic debate has become a way of flattering those in power.”

"And the most naive part of me was that I once imagined that I could change everything."

Shimochuan's originally calm tone suddenly became excited at this moment, as if a huge emotion burst out in the body of this Chinese scholar, and Shimochuan's quiet face also became a little distorted at this moment.

Get up. His voice echoed in the teaching and research room:
Chapter completed!