对照一下法国经济学家让·莫内在战后的告诫——现代化要先“化”人,后“化”物,就不免想到,这“化”人,即改变人们陈旧观念的任务,在我们,可也是不轻的。比如,某些企业领导竟会说生产是硬任务,职工教育是软任务,他们经常不惜让职工学校停课,令学员下车间加班加点。又如,虽然一些单位为专业人员脱产进修规定了时间和人数指标,可是却会被个别基层负责人视为“软指标”,几年完不成。“软任务”、“软指标”,不同的说法表达的恰恰是同一种观 By contrast, Jean-Monnet, the French economist, warned after the war that modernization must first “transform” people and then “change things”, we can not help thinking that this “transformation” of people, that is, the task of changing people’s old ideas, , But also not light. For example, some business leaders may say that production is a hard task and workers’ education is a soft task. They often stop working in the staff school and allow the students to work overtime. In another example, although some units provide time and number indicators for off-campus training for professionals, they will be regarded as “soft targets” by individual heads of grass-roots units and fail to complete in a few years. “Soft tasks”, “soft indicators”, different expressions of precisely the same view