University pressure
I see that today's college students face two kinds of pressures: economic pressure and parental pressure. Looking around, it is easy to find rebels-accusing schools of overcharging and parents of pushing them too hard. But there are no rebels, only victims.
For those students who just want to graduate and find a job, the pressure is great. If I were an employer, I would rather hire graduates with this range and curiosity than those who narrowly pursue safety subjects and high scores. I know countless students, and their thirst for knowledge inspires me. I like to listen to their ideas. I don't know whether they get an A or a C, and I don't care. I like them too. The country needs them, and they will find satisfactory jobs. I told them to relax, but they couldn't.
I can't blame them either. They live in a cruel economy. Today, it is not unusual for a student to increase his loan to 5000 pounds after graduation, even if he works part-time in university and full-time in summer. He was encouraged to go to the society at the graduation ceremony, but he has fallen behind. During the whole university, how can he prepare for this day without feeling pressure?
Along with the economic pressure comes the pressure from parents. Inevitably, the two are deeply integrated.
Poor students! They are caught in the oldest web of love, responsibility and guilt. Parents have good intentions: they try to guide their children to a safe future. But their children want to major in history, classical literature or philosophy-these subjects have no "practical" value. Where is the reward of humanities? It is not easy to convince these loving parents that the humanities really pay off. Intelligence developed by studying subjects such as history and classical literature is precisely the ability to become a creative leader in business or almost any ordinary field.
Fortunately for me, to their surprise, most of them entered their field through circuitous ways. It is hard for them to imagine a career that is not planned in advance. It is hard for them to imagine that God's hand or opportunity will push them down some unpredictable road.