复旦研究生投毒案曝光之后，舆论在震惊之时，回溯近年来时有发生的大学生尤其是高材生伤害案件，“人格培养”、“生命教育”又被高频提及。
The body of Huang Yang, who local police believe was poisoned by a roommate, is moved to the mortuary at the Zhongshan Hospital in Shanghai, April 16, 2013. Huang Yang, 28, in his third year at Fudan University's medical school, died at about 3:23 p.m. p.
Shanghai (CNS) -- Issues of "personality cultivation" and "life education" are under the spotlight again following the fatal poisoning of a postgraduate medical student at Shanghai's Fudan University.
The suspected murderer is the recipient of national scholarship awards, and has published papers in prestigious medical journals. That such a good student would resort to such behavior has aroused concern about student morality.
The murder has reminded the public of a similar tragedy at Tsinghua University in 1994, when a girl named Zhu Ling was poisoned by thallium, rendering her physically and mentally disabled.
"For ordinary people, such conflicts may be easily settled through a fight, but these top university students went so far as to use poison for revenge," said a microblogger.
Wu Gencheng, executive vice dean of the TCM and Western Medicine Department at the Shanghai Medical School of Fudan University, has called for harmonious and amicable relations among fellow university students.
Wu has also suggested a stronger emphasis on humanities. "Such education seems to be lacking among medical students, who usually endure heavier workloads than students of other majors," he said, adding that competition between medical students has become ever more urgent.
Xiong Bingqi, a famous scholar and vice president of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, has argued that such education should be strengthened among all students.
The traditional "exam-oriented education" that places sole emphasis on getting high scores often ignores the cultivation of EQ (emotional quotient), an important gauge of a student's overall character, Xiong said. As a result, students with character flaws are seldom corrected, he added.
"In our educational system, instruction in life values seems to be missing. We only focus on how to get our students into better schools and achieve higher scores, completely ignoring character building on the part of the students." This may lead to large numbers of "top" students with excellent school records and good mastery of knowledge, but with severe character flaws, Xiong said.
Xiong also suggested that mental health education courses be offered at schools, and improved psychological counseling centers be set up, to avoid similar tragedies from happening in the future.
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