Chapter 2645 Warm Welcome

In the center of Paris, where every inch of land is worth a lot of money, there is a famous scientific district, which is located on Mont Sainte-Geneviève.

The scientific district originated from Rue d'Ulm.

In 1794, the world's first school translated as "normal school" in our country was born here, which is now the École Normale Supérieure de Paris.

Soon after, because of the famous Rue d'Ulm of the École Normale Supérieure de Paris, it attracted many educational and scientific research institutions to be neighbors with it, including the Paris Higher School of Physics, Industrial Chemistry, the School of Biochemistry and the Curie Institute...

The famous Mont Sainte-Geneviève Research Society is a research society formed with the École Normale Supérieure de Paris as its core.

The École Normale Supérieure de Paris, which is almost the same age as the Republic of Paris, has exported a large number of outstanding talents to all walks of life in France since its establishment, including countless outstanding teachers, hundreds of members of the French Academy, 13 Nobel Prize winners, 14 Fields Medal winners, etc. It is an important center for mathematics, science and philosophy research in the world.

Roughly speaking, the École Normale Supérieure de Paris and the École Polytechnique de Paris are equivalent to Oxford and Cambridge in the UK.

At 9:30 on the morning of the 6th, in front of the inconspicuous gate of the École Normale Supérieure at 45 Rue d'Orme, Gabriel Yujie, the president of the École Normale Supérieure, was waiting for the cars that were slowly approaching with several teachers and students.

Looking at the young Chinese man who got off the car with a smile, President Yu Jie, who had been to China many times, had mixed feelings.

In the previous contact, out of respect, they proposed to award Feng Yiping an honorary doctorate title during his visit to the École Normale Supérieure—but not a doctorate from the École Normale Supérieure, but a doctorate from other universities that have cooperated with the École Normale Supérieure, because the École Normale Supérieure itself does not issue any diplomas.

This is related to the strange French school system.

Generally speaking, in France, as long as you are a high school graduate, you can go directly to university without selection—but this does not mean that everyone can go to university. They just put the elimination in junior high school in advance, and only some junior high school students can go to high school.

French students who graduate from high school generally have two options. The safer option is to give up the opportunity to enter a top French university and go directly to a five-year engineering school, such as the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon, where they can study for five years and become a French nationally certified engineer.

The other option is to spend one or two years preparing for the national entrance exam. Top French universities such as the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris only conduct national entrance exams every year, and select the students they like from the university preparatory class based on their grades and wishes.

The Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris only admits about 200 college students a year, but the number of applicants is generally more than tens of thousands, so it is quite difficult. After graduating from the university preparatory class, you often have to apply twice to be admitted.

And if you fail the second time, you will not be eligible to apply again.

These outstanding students who have fought their way through preparatory courses and exams have to register for study at other comprehensive universities in the first two years after entering the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris to obtain a third-year university diploma and a bachelor's degree. In the last two years, they will study under the guidance of teachers from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris.

After passing the national examination for teachers of secondary school certificates and the national examination for senior secondary school teachers, the École Normale Supérieure will only give you the relevant certificates.

That is, although you are a student of the École Normale Supérieure, if you register at the University of Paris VI in the first two years, then what you get in the end is the graduation certificate of the University of Paris VI...

It is also because of this that the quality of students at the École Normale Supérieure is also very good, because after being admitted to the École Normale Supérieure, its students can also choose the best majors in other universities to study, and after obtaining a bachelor's degree, they can go to the École Normale Supérieure to study.

Just think about it and you will understand that if there is a school in our country where students have a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Peking University, a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Tsinghua University, a bachelor's degree in journalism from Renmin University, and a bachelor's degree in political science from Fudan University before they enroll... How awesome would that be!

However, such an awesome school took the initiative to propose to award Feng Yiping an honorary doctorate, but was flatly rejected. How embarrassed are they?

Do you still look down on us?

Do you know how many Chinese have been admitted to our school since its establishment?

If it weren't for the students' unusual welcome to Feng Yiping, the arrogant Gaoshi would not even want Feng Yiping to come to the school to give a speech.

Feng Yiping still noticed the little emotion of the gray-haired and thick-browed Principal Yu Jie. When shaking hands, he first expressed his gratitude to him, "Thank you very much for the proposal of Gaoshi, but I personally feel that I can't match such an honor in academics for the time being."

Scholars, both Chinese and foreign, care a lot about their face.

So, Feng Yiping's words immediately made the atmosphere warm, and Principal Yu Jie was so happy that his hair on his forehead almost stood up, "No, as everyone knows, Feng, your academic level has long surpassed that of ordinary doctors,"

"Thank you for the compliment," Feng Yiping chuckled twice.

Mainly, he doesn't care about this thing, or rather, he doesn't care.

In his opinion, if he accepts such an honorary doctorate, it will make him seem like he can't finish a doctorate.

Besides, the so-called honorary doctorate is not a real degree. If you get the honorary doctorate title, and you fill in "doctor" in your "education" or "educational background" column, people will laugh at you.

Similarly, generally no one will call you "doctor" for this reason.

At most, it can be listed in the "Awards" or "Honor" column on the resume, so it is just an honor.

And Feng Yiping, does he still lack such an honor?

In the past, it was not bad, such a title still had a bit of a halo, but especially recently, because of the bad economic environment, many universities have used such means to generate income.

For example, in the UK, generally you only need to provide a university with 10,000 pounds of funds to get an honorary doctorate title. The same is true for Oxford and Cambridge, but the price is higher, generally starting at 250,000 pounds...

What do you think Feng Yiping wants this for?

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As soon as I entered the small school gate, the buzzing sound heard at the gate became clear. It was a large group of people shouting at the same time, "Feng!" "Feng!" "Feng!"

It was a scene of welcoming a superstar.

All the students of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris only add up to more than 2,000 people, and they are distributed in several campuses in Paris. Feng Yiping feels that all the students are here today.

Oh, and the faculty and staff must be included.

Those men and women who look a little calmer and not as unrestrained as the young students should be the teachers of the École Normale Supérieure.

There are more than 500 teachers in the École Normale Supérieure.

Considering that they only enroll about 200 new students a year, this ratio can be said to be quite high.

Of course, the higher is the majors of the École Normale Supérieure.

The École Normale Supérieure only enrolls about 200 new students a year, but how many majors do they have? The École Normale Supérieure currently has more than 40 majors, which is a bit weird!

Fortunately, Feng Yiping has also experienced such a battle for a long time. He smiled and waved to the people around him.

At this time, several girls rushed through the school security personnel to give Feng Yiping flowers and kisses - it really deserves to be France, it deserves to be Paris.

But Feng Yiping, who is self-disciplined, did not let the girl succeed in public.

But taking a photo, that's okay, okay, flying a kiss, I also felt it.

Principal Yu Jie and his colleagues didn't seem surprised at all. They just stood aside with a smile, and waited until Feng Yiping squeezed out of the crowd of girls before signaling to him, "Let's go this way."

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Their destination was in a large stepped classroom.

Feng Yiping couldn't tell how many people this classroom could originally seat, because it was already full of people.

So when he walked into the classroom, his first feeling was that it was hot, and he couldn't even wear his coat.

It was as if the enthusiasm of these students turned directly into heat.

There were several chairs on the podium, and the people sitting on them stood up at this time. Feng Yiping listened to Yu Jie's introduction. It was either this doctor or that researcher, but none of them was a Nobel Prize winner.

Most of the Nobel Prize winners they trained here are no longer alive, and the few who are left are teaching in universities in France or the United States.

There are two young professors who have won the Fields Medal.

But no matter who is on the stage, they seem to respect Feng Yiping very much, because they are facing more than just a rich guy.

Yu Jie only said one sentence in front of the microphone, "Let us welcome Mr. Yiping Feng, a well-known scholar and entrepreneur from China."

In the small space, deafening applause immediately broke out.