All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world’s most persistent social problems.

   The speaker contends that it is a good way to solving the world’s persistent problems through establishing a global university. The viewpoint seems compelling and reasonable, but after careful consideration, we will find it is overly optimistic and not achievable.  From every aspect, it is very difficult to coordinate the relationship among the nations.

  To establish a global university is well-intentioned. Maybe we can accumulate the all needed recourses and solve the pressing problems or research the anticipate problems with collective strengths. But from the realistic angle, it is really a mission impossible.

   First, if we built a global university, our goal is must to solve the global problems which is need all nations’ help. If we research one subject, it means that we should know the latest development of that area, and it also means that we should get the cutting-edge research outcomes first from certain countries. But there are huge differences of the research levels among all countries, it must means some countries must submit more science results and others will submit less. This is maybe seems a little problem. But actually it is hard to coordinate from realistic angle. It is entirely possible that some countries are not willing to submit the latest results for some certain reasons.

Second, because of the economic strengths are quite different among all countries, the investment of the global university will be certainly different. Generally speaking, the country which invests more money must want to have the dominant power in the university. It must lead to a phenomenon that the university is dominated by the developed countries, yet developing countries’ opinions could be ignored. This unbalanced situation will impede the equal right of students. Even influence the morale of the students.

 Last but not the least, every country has its own language, cultural background, customs, and value. Maybe language problem is easy to solve, but the others is not. For example, some countries may prone to take aggressive measures to do researches, while some may like to take conservative measures to do researches, how can we easily coordinate it? And even to the same question, the opinions may be contrary.  Take the genetically-modified food as an example, some countries supported its research, but some countries view it very dangerous to human beings. The similar cases still has a lot.  The different values toward researches must result in argument or even clashes. This will not improve the efficiency of researches but maybe severely decrease the efficiency.

 From what has been discussed above, we can safely draw the conclusion that to build a global university is just a beautiful wish. But if we have a realistic attitude, we will soon know that this is a very difficult problem. Yes, I concede that the international cooperation is necessary, but the best way is not through a global university, we can communicate more through the Internet, we can run more forums to propel the international exchanges. They are much economical and effective than build a university.