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At 2:48 am on early Sunday morning, after a flight of more than 10 hours, Ronald Sakolsky arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport. As he stepped into the arrivals hall, he greeted the waiting reporters with earnest Putonghua "Wo hui lai le," meaning "I'm back."
The thrill of his homecoming had washed over him most vividly during the final moments of his flight. "When I saw the lights in Beijing as we were landing is when I realized that I am back in my second home."
Sakolsky, an American retired teacher from Pennsylvania, is visiting China from Sunday to September 1 for a journey that will take him to Beijing, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Central China's Henan Province. It is a reunion nearly three decades in the making.
That reunion began with a single act of generosity. In 1999, when Sakolsky arrived in China as a participant in a bilateral teacher exchange program, he was moved by Yin Yuzhen and her husband's tireless efforts to curb desertification in the Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia. He raised $5,000 to fund their local tree-planting initiative. The young saplings bought with the donation have since matured into more than 50,000 full-grown trees, transforming the once desolate, sandy wasteland into a thriving green landscape.
After decades of lost contact, Yin, a national model worker renowned for her desert restoration achievements, launched an online search for her American benefactor in May, hoping to reconnect with the man who helped launch her lifelong desert reclamation mission.
What followed was a remarkable wave of online support: within less than 48 hours, a nationwide search had tracked Sakolsky down. That swift effort led to their long-awaited virtual reunion, a video call that brought them face to face for the first time in 27 years.
Asked what he is most looking forward to about this journey, Sakolsky told the Global Times that "I want to see Ms Yin, see the forests, see the students I have not seen for almost 30 years, my colleagues. I want to see the Chinese people."
The trip itself felt like a dream he never thought would come true, he added.
Now, the dream is about to come true. Later on Sunday, Sakolsky will fly to Ordos, Inner Mongolia, the site of the transformative environmental project that bound his fate with Yin's all those years ago.
During his China visit, Sakolsky will join Yin in a new tree-planting activity. He will also hold exchanges and discussions with teachers and students from the Luoyang No.2 Foreign Language School where he once taught, and participate in official China-US teacher exchange events, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
As he prepares to see the transformed landscape with his own eyes, Sakolsky shared with the Global Times about how much China itself has changed over the past two decades. From photographs, he said, he had already seen the barren desert he remembered turn into lush green forests; he had also heard that Luoyang has become far more vibrant and beautiful.
"Hopefully the message gets out to the world that Chinese and Americans can work together and make a peaceful world," he said.
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二 | 从高校举办天文学专业，开展天文学教育的办学趋势看，国内天文学教育虽然起步较晚，但目前已进入一个高速发展阶段，各个高校陆续建立天文学专业。
三 | 有鉴于此，不少观察者指出，天文学这一高考报考中的传统冷门专业将迎来走热的机会。
四 | 2020年起，教育部启动实施“强基计划”，聚焦国家重大战略需求，探索选拔培养基础学科拔尖创新人才，3年来已经招收1.8万余人，其中就包括招生培养天文学人才。
五 | 越来越多的高校重视包括天文人才的基础学科人才培养。我们乐见天文学专业的走热，也因此，更有必要重申尊重基础学科人才培养规律。
六 | 高校在开设天文学专业时，有必要对现有的天文人才培养与社会人才需求情况进行客观评价。从现实看，按照目前的专业人才培养规模，天文学专业毕业生从事天文教育、科学研究的“就业对口率”并不高，仅有约50%。据统计，天文学本科毕业生毕业去向主要为深造，有的高校高达七成，但深造的专业有相当大的比例不是天文学。虽然基础学科专业的本科教育本来就不以就业为导向，而着重培养学生宽厚的基础学科能力与素质，但毋庸置疑，毕业生的“对口率”不高的去向分析势必会在一定程度上影响到专业的建设和发展。随着更多学校建立天文学专业，这一问题值得重视。开设天文学专业的高校应根据本校的办学定位、办学条件对新设专业进行科学、严谨的论证。另一个值得关注的问题是，我国基础教育要重视培养学生对基础学科的兴趣，以及成为基础学科领域拔尖人才的志向。我国基础教育学校，要重视呵护学生的好奇心，在课堂教学和课后社团活动中，要关注学生的学科素养、学科兴趣培养。尤其在高中教育阶段，应通过包括开设选修课在内的各种途径，拓宽学生的视野，帮助学生了解不同学科发展前沿，既培养学生的学科兴趣，又引导学生选择适合自己的大学与专业，确定自己的职业与事业发展方向。这一方面需要高中扭转“唯升学”倾向，在必修课之外，给学生提供选修课和各类探索活动，让学生有发现、发展自己兴趣的时间与空间；另一方面则需要大学积极参与基础教育，例如面向高中生开设基础学科先修课程，以此培养学生的基础学科兴趣，吸引更多学生选择基础学科专业。基于兴趣选择的大学和专业，对学生来说，就是属于自己的“热门”学校和专业。基础学科属于“长线专业”，只有兴趣才能让学生拥有学好专业的内驱力。而激发学生对基础学科的兴趣，也是培养基础学科拔尖人才的关键所在。（作者：熊丙奇，系21世纪教育研究院院长）
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