Philosopher & Director of Education Bureau of Hainan Province, China

Q: School uniform has uniformity. With the uniform system unchanged, what kind of diversity do you think school uniforms can display?

A: Uniform is unified for a certain group. For example, for a school, it is unified, but for the entire society, it is special. (Change the reference?) From a philosophical point of view, everything has two aspects of unity of opposites. As the ancient Chinese said: good fortune is nothing but disaster. In fact, one thing has two aspects of unity of opposites. The school uniforms you are talking about, you want to highlight your personality when you are unified. As clothes, you must be beautiful. Different aesthetics and different people have different understandings of beauty. From another perspective, what group is he for? For example, for different cultural groups, the connotations they want to show are different. So diversity is a manifestation of individuality, that is, particularity. But the particularity is also relative, it needs to talk about a certain reference object. If you want to play to the extreme, diversity must reflect the connotation. To be different from others, to experience his particularity. Take a look at the Marxist methodology. You can study the method of dialectical thinking.