From ChinaSMACK; not much else needs to be said:

Beijing Normal University professor “warns” students: If you don’t have 40 million by the time you are 40-years-old, don’t come see me

Dong Fan: When you are 40-years-old, if you don’t have 40 million in assets, don’t come see me, and don’t say you were my student either——This is the requirement I have for graduate students. Cultivating a consciousness of wealth is one aspect of my work, and of course, the precondition is that the wealth is reasonably and legally earned. Once you yourself have become rich, that means that you have created a lot of GDP, tax revenue, and jobs. When your contribution to society is large, it also helps low-income people, as well as preventing yourself, your family, and your relatives from become a burden upon society. For highly-educated people, wealth signifies struggle and effort, whereas poverty signifies inability, laziness, shame, and failure.

OK, I will say something more…  This is pretty much a perfect anti-Confucian storm.  Not only do the professor's words venerate wealth to an extreme degree (gotta love "cultivating a consciousness of wealth"), but they also destroy the exemplary leadership a person of education should exercise.  It would be one thing (and, generally, a bad thing from a Confucian perspective) if a businessman publicly defined humanity in terms of wealth; but it is much worse that it is a professor, a teacher, who imposes this image on his students.

How many times and how fast does The Master spin in his grave?….

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One response to “The China-is-not-Confucian Watch, Episode 5489”

  1. roy Avatar

    I’d say, it is so sad, so very sad.
    Thank you Professor for being an example of what a teacher is all about.

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