Have you ever considered the question: What's the difference between college students and non-college students? What did you study at university?

A mechanical and electrical college graduate can operate and maintain a machine, but a skilled mechanic with only junior high school education can also operate it, even better than a college student. A college student who graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages can speak a foreign language fluently, but a person who has sold baked sweet potatoes abroad for several years can also speak a foreign language, even more authentic than a college student. A medical college graduate can pick up a stethoscope to treat patients, but many middle school students who graduated from health schools can become doctors after accumulating several years of experience. ...

So the main difference between college students and non-college students is not whether they have mastered a professional skill. If so, there is no difference between a university and a technical school. Moreover, in terms of professional skills, college students are definitely not as good as technical school students, because students majoring in chefs in technical schools may have to learn to cut vegetables in the first class, and if a university offers a chef major, it will definitely take two years to study the social mission, professional ethics, historical evolution, class attributes and academic classification of chefs.

What makes college students different from technical school students, and then different from all those who have never been to college? To answer this question, we might as well look at the article written by Miss Zhang about her graduation job-hunting experience:

The university is approaching graduation, and the employment situation is quite grim, and I belong to the category with the worst luck.

For the first time, an electrical appliance company informed me of an interview. Dressed up for too long before going out, got stuck in traffic, and was late for a whole hour. The staff held up a pile of application forms and said to me, "Miss, you are not suitable for being an employee, but for being a boss."

The second time, I came to a etiquette company in advance, and the staff shook their heads and said to me, "Paying attention to appearance is a respect for others. Didn't you learn it at school? "

A few days later, the job advertisement of a British company refreshed me. The company has no requirements for image, so I arrived at the application site on time. (Inspirational speech) The examiner gave everyone a test paper, with only one seemingly simple question: How many golf balls does Britain buy every year? There is no other data, which should be completed within 45 minutes.

I was dumbfounded to see this nonsense topic. I can think about it carefully and find that this question does not require me to answer a definite number, but requires a process of thinking.

The number of so-called "British purchases" is related to market demand, and market demand is related to population. I want to know the population of Britain in my mind. It can be assumed how many people between the ages of 50 and 45 are most likely to play golf. In order to make the data accurate, I also wrote on the answer sheet how to conduct a sampling survey. After writing the steps, I will assume how many of these people often play, how many balls these people estimate to use each year, how often others play and how many balls they need. These figures add up to the total market demand in Britain. Finally, I wrote down a set of figures and handed in my answer sheet with satisfaction.

A month later, I received the employment notice from this company.

Miss Zhang failed in the first interview because she was late, and was rejected in the second interview because of her appearance. Punctuality and attention to appearance are the basic requirements of being a man and the minimum respect for others. However, we cannot conclude that Mr. Zhang is not a qualified college student. We should not use the standard of being a man as the standard to measure whether a college student is qualified or not.

Miss Zhang proved her strength as a qualified college student in the third interview. That topic is not a number, but a method of analyzing problems, so the advantages of college students are highlighted. After systematic thinking training in the university, Teacher Zhang has rich theoretical knowledge about analyzing and solving problems, so when facing a problem, she will not simply consider it from the perspective of simple memory or mechanical imitation, but can analyze and solve problems from a higher angle. At this time, passive memory ability has risen to active analytical ability and independent thinking ability, which is precisely the most essential feature of a qualified college student.

What society needs is the systematic analysis ability of college students. No matter what industry we are engaged in, the problems we face are complex and changeable. Without the ability of systematic analysis and independent thinking, even if you swallow all the books, even if you get the first place in every final exam in college, you will never stand out in your work.