There is such a story that shocked many people's hearts. A college student graduated from a city in the south and worked as a carpenter in the same city to earn money for his study. His father found that his son's job was less than 4,000 yuan a month, while he earned more than 7,000 yuan as a carpenter. The salary of his son who graduated from college is not as high as that of a farmer.
So the father began to think, what is the significance of his son going to college?
So, what can the university bring us? I think this is a problem that many parents care about, and it is also a topic that you care about when the college entrance examination is coming. In a word, what the university brings us is nothing more than "vision". The so-called horizon, in the vernacular, is knowledge.
Intuitively, a minority who doesn't know Chinese will be trapped by his language. A person who doesn't know a foreign language will be trapped by his own language. So, what can universities do to help us understand these worlds?
1 cognitive world
The first is cognition. I didn't know until I entered the university that there was a bigger world outside the university.
A child who has never been to college will be limited by the cognitive framework brought to him by family environment and social environment. But his access to a whole new world was blocked. Maybe he can discover the outside world in other ways, but obviously he needs to make more efforts and pay a greater price.
If the cognitive map brought by high school learning is 1, then the cognitive map brought by universities is at least 100. More importantly, the university also brings us an imagination, that is, there may be more territory beyond that 100, which requires imagination and is a new possibility.
2 the world of thinking
Second, the world of thinking. When I arrived at the university, I suddenly found that there were many questions around me, and all of them had no standard answers. Different from the high school education of "I ask-you answer" and "I say-you do", no one in the university is asked to do anything, you have to answer what you want to do.
In a sense, this is the real starting point of the sense of responsibility in life. No one is responsible for you, you need to be responsible, but you need to be responsible for yourself.
It can be seen that universities teach us not only thinking itself, but also why we should think. Because of this ability, we stop following others' advice and start to really think and plan our life.
3 the world of society
The third is the social world. After entering the university, I finally understand that everyone's life is so different. What you know may be unheard of by others, while what others have experienced may be unheard of by you.
College students are precious gifts that universities give to every student. In addition to the preciousness of friendship, this gift, in a sense, is a real side of society behind every student in the university. You can know what a real society is through them.
In addition, the university also gives us the opportunity to walk around the wall occasionally and get to know the society, such as social practice and enterprise internship.
On the contrary, we see that many students who failed in the college entrance examination were suddenly thrown into the torrent of society. At first, they had some courage and spirit, but in the end, they all fell into reality and lost hope. It is a cruel but helpless fact that a young man in his twenties no longer has hope.
What is a university and what does it bring us? I think a person who has never been to college will expect to find the standard answer to this question. But for a person who has gone to college, what he expects to find is an opinion and a reference, which is also the difference between not going to college.
In short, the university is an opportunity for us to stand on the shoulders of giants and look forward to the future. Don't let down such an important opportunity for the first time in our lives. Students, if you don't struggle at this time, when will you stay!