My first reaction when I heard the news was, whose brain is this? In my college life in the past year, I was very worried about how to "survive", which led to a continuous decline in the number of students. Shampoo in Wang Ba only accounts for a high proportion in the daily discussion topics. In the circle of friends, there are often two kinds of screen brushing phenomena. When school started, I couldn't grab the class. At the end of the year, I cried for the crematorium. As far as people around me are concerned, most people want to have a substantial and practical college life, and they all want to study hard and make progress every day.
After all, it's getting better, and no one will refuse.
So after the news appeared, many people were pleasantly surprised and cheered "it should be like this". I understand this very well. Some of my classmates went to two books or junior college. They generally reported that the class was divided into two groups, one sleeping and the other playing games. The course is over, even if you study hard again, you will attract attention in that environment, and even the teacher himself has no expectations and confidence. There are people in any school who "mix until graduation". Even in universities, it is inevitable that some courses are boring, "watery" and disgusting. If you want to graduate, it's almost enough to pass professional courses. Among them, liberal arts is better than science and engineering. Therefore, some netizens say that college students are "idle and exhausted", and I quite agree.
It is often said that the Chinese department (or other similar majors) is a pension major, with three or four classes a day or even less. One of my classmates was very worried before entering school, saying that he must study more by himself and not be abandoned. Later, it turned out that many China students had already sighed just to complete the tens of thousands of words of composition required by the school. Coupled with a long list of invisible books, it is even more tragic.
Then the question is, are liberal arts courses really watery?
In my own school, liberal arts barely ranks among the top 5 in China. A student, assuming that there are 35 classes a week (one class is 50 minutes), is quite a lot, but generally the content density of each class is not very large. In fact, not every sentence spoken by a college classroom teacher is useful, not every sentence is necessarily correct, and the amount of homework varies from person to person. Among the courses I choose, at least one course per semester is not so easy, and it can even be said that it is difficult to complete. And often the more difficult courses you learn, the most important thing in the curriculum is not the number of courses, but the quality of courses. Of course, the academic score must be enough to graduate, and it can generally be achieved. Many students may study hard to show themselves or comfort themselves, but they don't want to be too tired, so they choose many water classes. In fact, there is a high probability of wasting class time. If you really want to concentrate on a course, you should read hundreds of pages of books and extended materials, write discussion questions, write papers, midterm exams and class group reports every week. If this course is still English, your English level is not very good and your task will be heavier.
Liberal arts courses, especially literature, history and philosophy, are not too strict for many teachers, but if you really want to master what you say in class, you need to understand, remember and internalize what you say, such as literature, history and philosophy, art, communication and education, so that you can really learn this major. Therefore, in the first class, teachers can often be seen switching between ppt, and each ppt has 7-8 recommended books. If you don't read, no one cares about you, which requires you to be very self-disciplined. After all, I am a college student, and I am responsible for every choice.
There are generally several types of liberal arts courses. One is intellectual, and there are a lot of hard goods, so we have to recite them. After learning this course, I seem to know a lot of new things, which can really show my magic when traveling or chatting with friends. The other is thinking, which does not require you to remember anything, but requires you to give your own thinking and analysis, put forward your own views and demonstrate when you encounter case materials. After this class, your thinking ability and aesthetic quality may be improved. There is also a skill type that specializes in training certain abilities, such as listening, writing and speaking. After studying the skills carefully, it will generally be improved and more practical.
Therefore, liberal arts courses can also be "informative". It is understandable for the Ministry of Education to increase the burden, but the direction should not be biased. As all contemporary college students know, only learning is useless, only learning, so they all participate in various community activities, social practice, part-time internship, voluntary service and competitions. Many people stay up late to work, so busy that they don't touch the ground all day. The pressure of survival is enormous, otherwise there would be no such thing as "Buddhism".
It should be admitted that some classes in the school are "obviously no one wants to listen, but they have to attend." At the same time, it is also a problem that the things in school are not well connected with the work needs after entering the society. If these can be corrected, it will eventually be beneficial to the overall development of education.
As for the lack of water in liberal arts courses, this is not the focus of this article, and we will talk about it later.
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From the beginning of school to now, I have been attending classes, skipping classes and changing classes, and all kinds of dizzy operations, just for the sake of enriching and benefiting this semester without exceeding my ability. But after the last two classes today, I found that I underestimated the number of homework that the teacher might assign, especially since I took two English-specific classes of this teacher at the same time.
Thanks for reading, it's a bit sloppy and unsystematic.