大学能否培养作家，这个问题在过去几乎算不得是一个问题。许多大学都开设创作课，目的也很明确：这里就是要培养作家。沈从文先生当年在西南联大开过三门课，其中有两门都与创作有关。但在当代，就成了一个问题。北大中文系每一届新生入校，照例要对这些陶醉于作家梦的学生们 Whether or not a university can educate a writer can hardly be a problem in the past. The goal is also clear in many universities: here is to train writers. Mr. Shen Congwen opened three courses in Southwest United University that year, of which two were related to creation. But in the contemporary era, it has become a problem. Peking University Department of Chinese every freshman school, as usual, to these intoxicated writer dream students