□ Hubei Daily commentator Aidan

Recently, there are several pieces of news about talents that are very hot: there are both young post-"26" Ph.D. professors who have been appointed as "double first-class" university professors, and there are 0-year-old masters of Peking University who joined the catering center of Peking University and became a "canteen aunt".

In the traditional perception, students who graduated from top universities like Peking University have nothing to do with the role of "canteen aunts". The choice of this Peking University master fell out of some people's expectations of high-level talents. In fact, the social function of higher education is not to cultivate social elites as the only purpose, to promote the all-round growth of people, to create more possibilities for personal development, and to consolidate the basic support of social civilization, which is the meaning of education. Whether you graduated from Peking University, Tsinghua University or other institutions of higher learning, you do not have to be engaged in a career with higher gold content and higher social status that people think is a winner in life. At the moment when we are thirsty for talents, we should look at and evaluate talents from a diversified perspective.

The stage of life is far wider than we imagined, and there are thousands of tracks in life. The reason why the experience of studying in a prestigious school is valuable is that it allows students to have more confidence in choosing their lives and more courage to become themselves. At this year's National People's Congress and the National People's Congress, Zhao Zhao, a deputy to the National People's Congress who embarked on the "representative channel," was a college student "cowherd." She left aside her work in the city and returned to her hometown to lead her fellow villagers to raise cattle and get rich. In her words: "Our generation of young people should not be admitted to university to leave their backward hometown, but to come back to change the backwardness of their hometown." "Education needs to cultivate pioneers who explore the frontiers of science, masters who can learn from the East and the West, and also cultivate social builders who are rooted in the grassroots and based on reality. In the vast land of China, there are volunteer teachers who graduated from famous schools and joined the countryside, volunteers who have returned from studying abroad to devote themselves to environmental protection, and thousands of students choose to work silently in ordinary positions. Prestigious schools and institutions of higher learning have not become the shackles for them to display their ambitions, nor should they be labeled as fixed by the society's concept of employment.

To respect and cherish talents, we need to think about problems from their perspective and experience their experiences, so that we can have more understanding. The inspirational story of the young Ph.D. who became a university professor after "95" is certainly worthy of praise, but it may as well leave room for the individual choice of Peking University master to be a "canteen aunt". To allow young talents to grow in the tempering of life, we need to build a more dynamic growth mechanism, a more open flow channel, and a more inclusive social ecology for young talents.

Nowadays, in many cities, courier boys, online anchors, community workers, etc. are all included in the talent selection category. Isn't talent just sophisticated? With the criterion of contributing to social development, we will continue to expand the width of the definition of talents, and all kinds of talents will bloom and compete with each other.