University is a national institution of higher education, which provides comprehensive teaching and research conditions and authorizes the conferment of degrees. It selects people with high school education or above for education and training, and tests their knowledge and skills through examinations. Nowadays, universities generally include a graduate school that can award master's and doctoral degrees, several professional colleges, and an undergraduate school that can award bachelor's degrees. Universities also include colleges and universities. Universities are often compared to IvoryTower. IvoryTower, according to the fourth quarter of Chapter 7 of the Song of Songs in the Old Testament, Solomon, the wise and rich king of Israel, wrote 65,438+0,005 poems, among which Song of Songs is a song of love. In the fifth song, the groom praised the bride like this: "... your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are near the gate of Bartrabbi in Heshbon, like a pool ... (... your neck is like an ivory tower; Your eyes are like a pool near the sliding door of Heshbon Patna; ……)。 Obviously, the ivory tower here is only used to describe the bride's beautiful neck. Later, the word was gradually applied to all aspects of social life, mainly referring to "an isolated fantasy, a paradise to escape from real life, and an isolated place". In Chinese, the extended meaning of ivory tower mainly refers to "the metaphor of the small world of writers and artists who are divorced from real life". Universities and graduate schools are such places. China In ancient China, institutions of higher education similar to universities included Sinology (imperial academy, imperial academy) and later institutions of higher learning, which gathered in specific places to sort out, study and disseminate advanced knowledge. The ancient institutions of higher learning in China can be traced back to more than two thousand years BC. For example, in Yu Shun, it means "going to school" or "going to school".
The word (university) first appeared in the Book of Songs of the Zhou Dynasty.