China News Service, Nanjing, May 15th Telegram: Donate 5 million yuan to colleges and universities, eighty-year-old professors have worked on the podium for 62 years and still remember students on their beds
Author Ke Longjiemin Tang Jingjing
"The students said, "Teacher, take care of your illness, we are the extension of your life. This is so touching, I have never heard of it." , In the live video, Fan Qinshan, the 85-year-old "Chair Professor Qian Weichang" of China Southern Airlines, choked on the hospital bed, recalling the scene when he was hospitalized more than ten years ago. This scene made many audiences weep.
Fan Qinshan, who "takes education and teaching as a lifelong career", describes herself as having three support points - professionalism, responsibility and conscience.
Fan Qinshan, 85, is the oldest teacher on the podium of China Southern Airlines.
He was on the Tsinghua podium at the age of 23. He has been working on the undergraduate teaching front line in many domestic universities for 62 years. At the age of 85, he still sticks to the podium of China Southern Airlines.
On November 29, 2021, Fan Qinshan took out his personal savings and donated 1 million yuan to the school to set up the "Fan Qinshan Mechanics Education and Teaching Award Teaching Scholarship".
This is another selfless dedication after he donated 1 million yuan to set up the "Basic Mechanics Award Fund" in April 2018.
In 2018, Fan Qinshan donated 1 million yuan to China Southern to set up the "Fan Qinshan Mechanics Education and Teaching Scholarship".
Photo courtesy of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Since 2018, Fan Qinshan has donated 5 times successively to support the development of mechanics discipline in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Tsinghua University, Beihang University, and Hohai University. The cumulative donation has reached 5 million yuan to reward outstanding mechanics majoring in mechanics. Teachers, students and teaching assistants.
In 1997, 60-year-old Fan Qinshan started teaching at China Southern Airlines. He insisted on teaching "Material Mechanics" and "Engineering Mechanics" courses in the frontline of undergraduate teaching, devoted himself to research teaching, reforming teaching, and innovating teaching. In 2003, he won the first "National Teaching Teacher Award". In 2005, he was appointed as "Qian Weichang Chair Professor" of China Southern Airlines.
Fan Qinshan has taught basic mechanics courses for more than 60 years, and he still prepares lessons carefully. From preparing questions to optimizing courseware, he has made every step of the teaching to the extreme.
Sometimes when he thinks of an inspiration, he will get up in the middle of the night and excitedly add it to the courseware of the next day's course, so there will be new ideas and cases in the courseware every year.
Group photo of teachers and students in the 2019 Qian Wei long class.
Photo courtesy of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Fan Qinshan in the classroom is a "special person".
Before each class, he has to carefully organize his clothes, and even iron the stitches of his trousers straight and neat. There is a set of his own "normative rules" in class - no sitting on a stool, no drinking water, no loudspeaker, no Limited to the podium.
"Students are greatly influenced by traditional learning methods. They have been learning under the indoctrination of teachers. They do not have the habit of self-study. The passive teaching mode of 'teacher talks and students listen' must be reformed." In order to solve the problem of students' autonomy in learning, Fan Qinshan founded three The school's "Material Mechanics" innovative teaching team promotes teaching reform.
From 2018 to 2021, Mr. Fan led the teaching team to develop the "Mechanics of Materials Self-Learning System" and the corresponding mobile APP, which were provided free of charge to teachers teaching materials mechanics and students studying materials mechanics nationwide.
In 2021, Fan Qinshan once again donated 1 million yuan to China Southern Airlines.
Photo courtesy of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
"Cultivation of talents cannot rely solely on introduction. I also need to train a group of young teachers for the mechanics of materials." Over the years, Fan Qinshan and team members have studied curriculum content and system reforms, co-authored textbooks, taught hands-on, and trained a group of young teachers. .
Fan Qinshan read 29 teaching summaries of more than 50,000 words written by the team teachers in one semester, and gave a full 41 pages of teaching guidance.
"We attach great importance to teaching, especially undergraduate teaching, and China Southern Airlines has done a good job. As far as I know, China Southern Airlines is the best among the national basic mechanics teaching team. Working with such a team in teaching work is like a fish in water, and the body and mind are happy." Fan Qinshan said with certainty.
"Do not pursue the quantity of life, but the quality of life, and train a group of young teachers for material mechanics in my lifetime" "As long as I can stand up, I can go to the podium" "If I am not at the front line of teaching, there is no way to talk about reforming teaching and innovation. Teaching"... Fan Qinshan devoted his life to the cause of mechanics teaching, indifferent to fame and fortune, and selfless dedication, inspiring generations of latecomers.
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