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University teachers have four main responsibilities. The first responsibility is teaching, which includes spreading knowledge, educating students, and releasing them from suffering; the second is researching, which includes creating knowledge, exploring the unknown, cultivating their mind, improving, and perfecting themselves; the third is doing administrative work inside the university, which means serving and devoting themselves to other people; and the fourth is serving society, which refers to fulfilling social missions and contributing to the development of society. Therefore, what is the most central or important responsibility of the university teacher? The answer is no doubt teaching, or cultivating talents. However, in reality, the teaching techniques in universities have long been neglected by university administrations. And research in teaching methodology should no longer be completely ignored. Generally speaking, the determining element of the success of teaching is in the attention to detail. Some teachers prepare thousands of pages of PowerPoint presentations, and read them for a total of 60 teaching hours, while students are required to merely sit and listen. Then it is not surprising that students would go to sleep or be daydreaming in class. Actually, even a donkey would fall asleep listening to their dull teaching. And most students are able to pass the final exam by studying only what the teacher tells them will be covered in the exam. Some critics say that if university teachers do not know much and rarely research, what could they teach? That's quite true. They have nothing left if they do not have anything to teach. However, there are learned teachers who do not know how to teach who will also bungle the job. It is far from enough to know a lot about the course. Teaching methodology plays an important role in university teaching. Therefore, ''what to teach'' and ''how to teach'' are both serious issues. A university teacher should have something to teach and teach well. Other critics say that university students gain knowledge not from teachers teaching but from their own learning. Yet how could they learn without teachers teaching? As the Chinese saying goes, ''teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.'' Here it is the teacher's job to ''open the door.'' People are likely to neglect unconsciously the role of ''opening the door'' by just focusing on learning.

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