The university for the aged is a classroom for the elderly to update their knowledge, a place for keeping fit and nourishing their hearts, a garden for happy entertainment, a platform for making friends and a base for intellectual development.
With the increase of the elderly population in China, universities for the elderly rose in many places in China in 1980s. 1973, the world's first university for the aged was established in France.
The university for the aged has a very flexible way of running a school, which includes centralized teaching in a fixed place and remote teaching. The teaching content of the university for the aged is very rich, mainly including health preservation, cooking, art and so on.
Universities for the aged are geared to the elderly. But education for the aged is the youngest education. Therefore, there is still a lack of experience and theoretical summary in running universities for the elderly. We should constantly explore and conscientiously sum up to improve our understanding of the regularity of running universities for the elderly.
Universities for the aged should make full use of various conditions to help their old friends "increase their knowledge, enrich their lives, cultivate their sentiments and improve their health", so that the old people in Tsinghua can learn, have fun and do something. To run a university for the aged well, teaching and management should follow the same educational laws, one of which is to give full play to the students' teaching subject role.
Teachers and managers should not only proceed from the reality of students, but also rely on students to run schools.