Musk is considering running a university, challenging MIT or upgrading "Lanxiang technical school"?

成为世界首富后，你的梦想是什么？

After becoming the richest man on earth, what are your dreams?

当地时间10月29日，特斯拉首席执行官埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）在社交媒体推特上表示，他正在考虑开设一所新的大学——德克萨斯理工学院。这是马斯克将特斯拉总部迁至德克萨斯州后的又一宏伟计划。

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on social media twitter on October 29 local time that he was considering opening a new University - Texas Institute of technology. This is another grand plan after musk moved Tesla headquarters to Texas.

上周，特斯拉的市值刚刚超过万亿美元，马斯克的个人财富飙升至3000亿美元（约合1.92万亿元人民币），成为世界首富。马斯克关于开办一所大学的推特也登上了推特热门榜；在中国，这条新闻也成为了热门搜索。

Last week, Tesla's market value just exceeded $trillion, and Musk's personal wealth soared to $300 billion (about 1.92 trillion yuan), becoming the world's richest man. Musk's tweets about running a university also hit the twitter hot list; In China, this news has also become a hot search.

"大学只是为了好玩"

"College is just for fun"

然而，目前尚不清楚这位亿万富翁对办学有多认真。当一位推特用户问马斯克是否为这所大学筹款时，马斯克回答说："很明显。"他还说这所大学将创造历史。

However, it is unclear how serious the billionaire is about running a school. When a twitter user asked musk if he had raised money for the University, musk replied, "obviously." he also said that the university would make history.

马斯克以在社交媒体上"吹嘘"而闻名。他曾表示，他计划将特斯拉私有化，因违反证券法做出虚假陈述而被罚款，并从特斯拉董事会辞职。

Musk is famous for "boasting" on social media. He once said he planned to privatize Tesla, was fined for making false statements in violation of the securities law, and resigned from Tesla's board of directors.

马斯克本人对传统大学的感情一直不温不火。他多次嘲笑自己的大学经历。去年，马斯克说："上大学只是为了好玩，为了证明你能做这些简单的工作，而不是为了学习。"他还说，申请特斯拉并不需要大学文凭，"因为这太荒谬了"。

Musk's own feelings for traditional universities have been tepid. He has laughed at his university experience many times. Last year, musk said: "going to college is just for fun, to prove that you can do these simple jobs, but not for learning." he also said that applying for Tesla does not require a college diploma, "because it's ridiculous".

然而，马斯克不能相信这一切。他本人来自一所著名的宾夕法尼亚大学——毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学，获得了物理学和经济学的双学位，并完美地结合了这两门学科。他成功地将物理学知识应用于商业，领导特斯拉电动汽车公司在汽车行业掀起了一场电气化革命，揭开了人类商业星际之旅的序幕。

However, musk can't believe all this. He himself came from a famous school - graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, obtained double degrees in physics and economics, and combined the two disciplines perfectly. He successfully applied physics knowledge to business, led Tesla electric vehicle company to set off an electrification revolution in the automotive industry, and opened the prelude to the commercial interstellar journey of mankind.

目前，包括特斯拉和镗孔公司在内的企业正在德克萨斯州大规模招聘。特别是特斯拉将总部迁至德克萨斯州后，预计将为该州的税收做出重要贡献。

At present, enterprises including Tesla and the boring company are recruiting on a large scale in Texas. Especially after Tesla moves its headquarters to Texas, it is expected to make an important contribution to the state's tax revenue.

2018年，一家研究机构Ihsmarkit对特斯拉对加州的经济贡献进行了统计，特斯拉最初的总部位于加州。统计结果显示，2017年特斯拉为加州经济贡献了50多亿美元（约320亿元人民币），直接向加州州政府和地方税务部门支付了3.28亿美元，2017年为加州提供了5万多个就业岗位。

Ihsmarkit, a research institution, made statistics on Tesla's economic contribution to California, where Tesla was originally headquartered, in 2018. The statistical results show that Tesla contributed more than US $5 billion (about RMB 32 billion) to the economy of California in 2017, paid US $328 million directly to the state government and local tax departments of California, and provided more than 50000 jobs for California in 2017.

研究数据还显示，特斯拉在整个加利福尼亚州的经济活动中每花费1美元，将额外产生8美元。特斯拉每付给加州员工1美元，就能帮助全州消费者减少9美元的支出。

The research data also show that Tesla will generate an additional $8 for every $1 spent in economic activities throughout California. For every $1 Tesla pays California employees, it will help consumers across the state reduce their spending by $9.

办学建议来自中国学者

School running suggestions come from Chinese scholars

回顾过去，马斯克的大学办学理念与今年早些时候举行的中国发展高层论坛有关。在今年3月举行的论坛上，中国科学院院士马斯克、薛琦琨、南方科技大学校长、中国凝聚态物理领域著名科学家首次在物理人才培养对话中提到了办学的主题。

In retrospect, Musk's idea of running a university is related to the China development high level forum held earlier this year. At the forum held in March this year, musk and Xue Qikun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, President of Southern University of science and technology and well-known scientist in the field of condensed matter physics in China, first mentioned the topic of running a school in a dialogue on the cultivation of physics talents.

马斯克和薛启坤都认为物理教学非常重要，但我们必须向人们解释物理的魅力，让它成为一门有温度的学科。薛启坤建议，特斯拉作为一家企业，应该建立一所大学，更好地将教育与经济产业发展结合起来，更有针对性地从事高等教育。

Both musk and Xue Qikun believe that physics teaching is very important, but we must explain the charm of physics to people and make it a subject with temperature. Xue Qikun suggested that Tesla, as an enterprise, should set up a university, better combine education with the development of economic industry, and engage in higher education more purposefully.

在这方面，马斯克回应说："特斯拉现在缺乏机器人编程方面的人才，这是一个很好的建议，值得考虑。"

In this regard, musk responded: "Tesla now lacks talents in robot programming, which is a good suggestion and worth considering."

马斯克说："物理学的原理非常重要。物理学中也有创新的想法，可以鼓励学生思考和实践现实世界中的现象。这是一个非常好的学习框架。提前学习物理学可以更好地参与未来的科学研究。"

Musk said: "the principles of physics are very important. There are also innovative ideas in physics, which can encourage students to think and practice the phenomena in the real world. This is a very good learning framework. Learning physics earlier can better participate in scientific research in the future."

然而，他指出，目前大学教育缺乏的主要问题是缺乏互动和教授，这很难激发学生对物理的兴趣。马斯克说："在今天的物理课堂上，教授经常表达自己的观点，教育形式仍然单一。"。"我认为课堂用于讨论，而不是单向灌输知识。为了激发学生的兴趣，我们应该加强课堂互动。"

However, he pointed out that the main problem of the current lack of university education is the lack of interaction and professors, which is difficult to stimulate students' interest in physics. "In today's physics classroom, a professor often expresses his own views, and the form of education is still single." Musk said. "I think the classroom is used for discussion, not one-way instilling knowledge. To stimulate students' interest, we should strengthen the interaction in the classroom."

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update time：2021-11-01 10:45:55