Chapter 165: Mediocre people
Night, 9:37.
Kyoto University, Faculty of Engineering, Research Building.
The conference room was filled with professors from the Department of Engineering. They had stern expressions, and from time to time they made dissatisfied complaints and whispered to each other. Most of them had heard about the court hearing in the evening. Many people had heard that the defender
When the lawyer even tried to blame other people in the engineering department, he was already frightened like a frightened bird.
After all, the cruel fact that Morimoto was detained in a detention center for almost a year reminds everyone here that you will face such a disastrous situation once you are involved in the case.
Okawara sat at the end of the long conference table, clasping his hands and frowning. Today, he was forced by the professors to convene the economic meeting of the Faculty of Engineering at an impromptu meeting to discuss countermeasures to the current situation. Now the entire faculty, from top to bottom,
All the professors below questioned the joint industry-research strategy that they had implemented.
There were whispers everywhere in the conference room. Because the issues to be discussed were extremely sensitive and important, even the administrators who usually served tea and water were not allowed to enter. The great professors in the past did not care about the lack of water.
Even if my mouth is dry, I don't care.
"Okay! Gentlemen!" Ogawara was a little irritated by these whispered discussions, and said loudly, "Right now, it is when our school is facing difficulties, and it is even more important for us to unite and overcome the current difficulties together.
.Only in this way is the feasible way to solve the problem."
"Before, I have always been opposed to the joint industry-research strategy!" a professor said, "I have said it before, something will happen if you do this! You don't believe me at all! Where there is a lot of money, right and wrong will be resolved.
There are many good and bad people in industrial and research enterprises, and they have also brought some problematic trends into our research institutions!"
"Yes!" Another scholar also echoed, "Originally, the use of scientific research funds has always been a sensitive issue. Now, we have established so many industry-research joint ventures, and we are constantly pouring money from the left hand to the right hand, and from the right hand to the right hand.
Pour it to the left hand. Even if these funds are not misused, the act of constantly transferring them here and there brings great risks!"
The speeches of these two people were like a stone that stirred up a thousand waves. Most people in the conference room nodded in agreement, and complaints came and went one after another, like a continuous wave that continued to surge.
Ogawara snorted coldly when he heard these sounds.
Sure enough, mediocre people still make up the majority in this world.
As mediocre people, they simply cannot understand the vision and structure of capable people.
A mediocre person can only focus on his own rice bowl. His vision from beginning to end is only the amount of food in his bowl, and he doesn't know how to raise his head and take a look at this vast world.
I have been in charge of the Faculty of Engineering for more than ten years.
In just ten years, Japanese engineering is no longer just resting on its past laurels, but has shown a vigorous and prosperous situation, and can even compete with the advanced Western engineering skills in some fields.
Who can understand the bitterness along the way!
Ogawara's face flashed with displeasure, and he said: "If there was no industry-research joint venture, I would like to ask all of you here, would you still be able to sit in this position today!!!"
As soon as the stern voice of this authority from the University of Engineering came out, the murmurs of discussion in the conference room stopped instantly. People always have a natural tendency to obey authority unconsciously.
The dean of the Faculty of Engineering continued: "What is scientific research? Is it something you can just sit in your study and dream about all day long? If there is no huge investment of funds, what can be researched?!
What important technology can’t be successfully developed by the country’s efforts as a whole?”
"In the past, we in Japan have been continuously cutting university budgets, one reduction after another. In some departments, even the funds for students to conduct experimental classes cannot be guaranteed. Under such conditions, we still have to hope that our country can cultivate super-class students.
Scientists, this is not just a dream, so what is it!!”
The voices in the conference room suddenly became quieter, and the two professors who had spoken in opposition just now fell silent.
"I'm not telling you, everyone here." Okawara said with a sullen face, "Only with a bullshit budget like Kyoto University! Can you support your laboratory?! Your doctoral students?! Your research group?! No!
With these things, how do you rely on them to publish papers and evaluate professional titles?"
"The industry-research cooperation strategy has introduced us to a large number of talents, technologies, and equipment from the industry. Without these real things, the so-called scientific research is just empty talk! On the one hand, industry-research enterprises entrust university research institutions to carry out some scientific research projects
Funds are flowing to research institutions for research. Research institutions also have some entrustments to be carried out by industrial and research enterprises, and the funds that have been idle in universities have also been put to use."
"This is an extremely virtuous cyclical exchange!" Okawara continued, "Let the industry and research community cooperate and achieve win-win results! Without industrial and research enterprises, our Faculty of Engineering would have died long ago! All of you here,
Is there any professor who has not received commissions from industrial and research enterprises?! He has not received funds from industry!!”
The entire conference room continued to reflect Okawara's voice back and forth. This authority in the field of engineering was like a king scolding his ministers who were not doing well. Although the professors present were slightly inferior to Okawara in the academic field, they were all
A respectable person. At this moment, no one in the audience raised any objection to Okawara's statement.
"Why is our country's academic community so sluggish?" Okawara said, "Have you ever thought about this problem? I have already thought about it, and I thought about it for a long time before I figured it out. In the final analysis, it is because of our Eastern intellectuals.
To this day, I am still influenced by the so-called ‘scholar-bureaucrat’ spirit in the East.”
"We always think that if a person becomes a scholar, he must be poor and sit on the bench. Why?! Why can't people who have made outstanding contributions to academics get matching rewards?
Material rewards. Look at the famous professors at Western universities. Which one is not driving a sports car openly and wandering around the campus? Only intellectuals in our country are so sick that they think it is a sin to be rich!"
"Why should I introduce industry-research joint ventures?" Okawara asked, "With my research group and my past academic reputation, even if the university cuts its budget, it won't be able to kill me. The reason why I want to do this
In addition to relieving researchers from the problem of insufficient funds, the most fundamental purpose is to break away from our past misconception that scholars must be poor!"
"A scholar is also a secular profession, and one must find its uses. Just now, a professor said that where there is more money, there will be more right and wrong. If more money is not invested, can scientific research progress be achieved?!
This concept of treating money as a scourge is simply extremely outdated and ignorant! We scholars must also learn to lobby like politicians, and we must also learn to package and promote ourselves like the business community. If we still stick to that kind of scholar-bureaucrats
Concept, the results waiting for our country’s research community will only lead to a dead end!”
Even though Okawara's words were filled with anger, they were also said sincerely. Many of his words hit the hearts of many professors present. In a moment, the trend of blaming Okawara before the meeting was reversed again.
Come here. The vast majority of people in this world are like this, being manipulated like grass on the wall.
For a long time, no one in the conference room said a word.
However, the problem is still not solved.
Although many people present were affected by Okawara's speech, however, no matter how beautiful this verbal rhetoric is, it cannot solve the real crisis at hand. In the face of a stop-payment order, the menacing
How should the Accounting Inspection Service and the Faculty of Engineering respond?
Chapter completed!