拿以前的读书人和今天的读书人作比较,许多东西还真不太好说。比如对待文凭与学位的态度这样一个方面,就很可以让我们在今昔对比中深思感叹一番。就像官员需要官衔来确定自己的身份一样,读书人需要一纸文凭来衡量和估价自己,这本是无可厚非的事情。尤其是自近代以来,中国传统的科举取士制度被时代无情淘汰,传统教育在中西文化交融的大潮中走上现代化的新轨,西方学制中的文凭与学位制度也逐渐为中国教育所采纳。按照这种制度的初衷,对于真正的读书人来讲,文凭与学位只是 Compared with the previous scholar and today’s scholar, many things really not easy to say. For example, treat diploma and degree of attitude in such a respect, we can make very much in the past contrast sigh. Just as officials need official titles to identify themselves, scholarly scholars need a diploma to measure and value themselves, and this is something that is understandable. Especially since modern times, the traditional Chinese system of imperial examinations has been eliminated by the times. Traditional education has embarked on a new path of modernization with the tide of integration of Chinese and Western cultures. The diploma and degree system in the Western academic system have also gradually been adopted by Chinese education. According to the original intention of this system, diploma and degree for the real scholar is only