在一次纪念.“五·四”的学术讨论会上,当谈到知识分子的历史使命时,来自台湾的十几位学者几乎异口同声地说,知识分子是社会精英,他们的时代任务就是冷静地思考问题,对国家作出可供采纳的属于专业范围的设计,而不必亲身实行,更不必投身到街头群众的行列去.接着,有一位学者站起来修正,他认为投不投身到群众行列里,这是知识分子自己的事情,一个知识分子可以根据本身的环境和条件,决定行止,不应该由别人来作硬性的规定. At a symposium on May 4, when talking about the historic mission of the intellectuals, a dozen or so scholars from Taiwan almost unanimously said that intellectuals are social elites whose task in our time is to calmly Thinking about the problem and making available to the nation a professionally-designed design without having to go into action in person or even join the ranks of the street masses. Then one of the scholars stood up and amended it. He did not think he would cast himself into the ranks of the masses, This is an issue for the intellectuals themselves. An intellectual can decide what to do based on his own circumstances and conditions, and should not be made hard by others.