Super God-Level Top Student-Chapter 1167 - 462: Another Graduation Season (Part 2)
Although in the past two years, the school has also persuaded some lecturers and professors to leave in order to adapt to development, Zhao Guangyao believes that given his qualifications, the school is unlikely to cut him out. After all, he can still teach undergraduate courses and explain the basic knowledge of algebraic geometry.
It’s not that the school has become so advanced that there’s only space for first-class professors. Research and teaching are different matters, and it’s like the saying "one’s specialized in one’s field." It’s just like Qiao Ze, who’s achieved so much, but has never taught undergraduates.
Unfortunately, there’s no "what if" in this world.
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"Oh? Professor Zhao really caught your eye?" Zhang Zhou asked with surprise.
Honestly, in their view, Qiao Ze is surely very contemptuous of Professor Zhao Guangyao. Moreover, they think Zhao Guangyao’s skills are really not high; otherwise, he wouldn’t have his students seek Qiao Ze for tutoring, even playing the game of using pseudonyms, clearly a Ph.D. pretending to be a master’s student, even reporting a fake name.
In Zhang Zhou’s simple view, if the students aren’t great, the teacher’s ability naturally isn’t great either, and he’s long labeled as someone just muddling through in school.
If Zhao Guangyao knew that even an ordinary undergraduate student secretly despised him, he would likely feel deeply insulted.
Qiao Ze glanced at Su Mucheng, shook his head slightly, and said: "Although Professor Zhao’s research ability is somewhat average, if we purely consider teaching abilities, his issues aren’t significant. From the perspective of academic promotion alone, his papers aren’t entirely meaningless."
A very fair assessment. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
The special glance at Su Mucheng was because he was well aware that it was her who initially instilled in him the idea that he was actually quite normal, and many people like him had extremely sharp spatial imagination skills.
But later, including eminent professors like Xu Changshu and Edward Witten helped prove him right, indicating this actually belongs to a very rare talent. At least people around him, including Peter Schultz, a Western-recognized genius, didn’t possess this ability.
Honestly, after realizing these things, Qiao Ze actually felt quite sorry for people.
Especially considering the first batch of Ph.D. students he personally accepted, but the teaching results were evidently less than gratifying.
From his standpoint, it always felt these things were simple, right? Isn’t it possible to understand just by looking at them casually? He gave those five Ph.D. students so much time to learn, but why do they just not get it?
But from the standpoint of those Ph.D. students...
Forget it, Qiao Ze couldn’t really empathize, but it’s likely they found it head-scratching, right? During that time, the hair of several Ph.D. students visibly decreased, and based on the information he received, five people indeed studied night and day, didn’t dare relax, yet the weekly meetings always left him feeling disappointed.
It was simply mutual torment.
To study mathematics to its extreme, talent is ultimately necessary.
But then again, to pass down mathematics as a discipline, not everyone needs to learn to that extent. Especially with new mathematical tools, just being able to master them proficiently is enough.
Teaching is not all; more papers can also let future generations go further on this path.
Simply put, Qiao Ze has realized that whether it be in mathematics or physics, it’s impossible to develop to the extreme with just one generation.
Ultimately, it requires one generation after another to keep the baton going.
Each generation may come upon a few highly talented individuals who push the whole discipline forward with new discoveries continuously, until one day truly uncovering the mysteries of the universe.
Given their generation has digested the existing knowledge, being able to formally step into space is already quite good.
Immigrating to Mars, Qiao Ze feels is still somewhat challenging, but not aiming too high, merely building a life-cycle system on the moon, having a modern base largely self-sufficient, with the support of artificial intelligence like Dou Dou, problems seem not too big either.
"So what I want to say to you and Gu Zhengliang is, you are different from those in Qiao Class. Talent can’t be changed. What I said in class that day was sincerely meant to tell them that it’s indeed too difficult if they want to reach the summit.
But if your goal is just to reach the middle of the mountain, then it’s not that hard. Don’t force yourself to always create something new, always have special achievements; Dou Dou is actually a very good mentor. Although nominally you are its first batch of students, in fact, it has always been guiding me and Li’s Ph.D. students, with good results."
If someone else said this on behalf of Qiao Ze, perhaps they would be more tactful.
After all, it’s like pointing at their noses and saying, your talent isn’t great, just muddle through.
But this is Qiao Ze after all, his tone was very sincere.
Zhang Zhou could think this was probably the most tactful statement Qiao Ze could come up with, luckily accompanied by Gu Zhengliang.
So he immediately glared at Chen Yiwen.
Sure enough, this guy had already grinned.
Next to him, Gu Zhengliang, however, said rationally: "Don’t worry, Qiao, we have a clear mind. Actually, Zhang Zhou and I never had such high demands, we never thought about becoming top mathematicians? As long as we can find a decent job after graduation, earn a living, that’s enough!"
"You don’t intend to be mathematicians?" Qiao Ze was slightly surprised, then laughed, and said: "Then that’s even less of a problem. With Dou Dou as a mentor, when it comes to application, it’s still fine. It can recommend work units to you based on your characteristics."
