| Scientific spirit is the soul of science. In the world today when the competition become increasingly intensified in scientific field, to nurture our university students' scientific spirit is the objective needs of scientific development and socio-economic advance, having important theoretical significance and practical value.Scientific spirit has abundant connotation about which there is no unified explanation so far among the scholars both at home and abroad. Through analysis about the definition and elaboration from academic circle of scientific spirit, this paper generalized the basic connotation which mainly includes four aspects: truth-seeking, rational, empirical, innovative and cooperative. On the basis of learning from and drawing on predecessors' research results, the author made a study of current situation of our university students' scientific spirit and the findings are worrying. Many of the students barely acquired the scientific spirit, and this is cause by many reasons which can be summarized as two aspects.China is now vigorously developing science and technology, against this background it is necessary and of fundamental principle to nurture scientific spirit on university student. However, the issue is how to effectively foster and educate the student to acquire the scientific spirit. This paper brought out four guiding theories and five specific countermeasures. These five countermeasures include establishing modern university system, strengthening the education on scientific spirit, stressing students' scientific practices, actively carrying out popular science work in university and building the science-advocating campus culture. This paper will high light the scientific history course education in undergraduate stage and philosophy of science in postgraduate stage, and this part is also the most innovative of this article. |
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