On how the college students should be more service-oriented, putting what they learned in school, to help better the society, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Another brand new start of a new school year. There are a lot of countries in the world that are still, shadowed over by MERS-CoV, we’re, so blessed for living in Taiwan, everyone gets the opportunity to meet up in school, and believed, that the experiences of not interacting with each other as students, the students will, surely, cherish their time on the campuses, and not wasting their youths away.
The universities from all around are already, no longer the ivory towers of professional knowledge anymore, and the stresses of learning the theories, and fitting the theories in, with the applications are now the sole purpose of higher education, encouraging the students to combine what they’d learned, to have the knowledge from their discoveries, to make the skills one learned specialized. And so, the students not only need to work hard in learning the majors of their choosing, they should also, let go of the beliefs carried over from the past of how the common courses are the needed credits of studies, and really start, contemplating, discovering, what areas of interests one is interested in mastering.
The common courses usually demanded the understandings of basic English and Chinese skills, and these courses are easily, overlooked by the students, and they are at loss, for having the professional knowledge but not knowing how to express their viewpoints in writing the reports, or that their reports are filled with misspelled words, the wrong uses of terms, to the point of illogical; or, they couldn’t convey their belief with the other international students, and this will totally, keep the developments of life limited. Like how information is growing fast, changing too quickly now, if the students can combine the skills, the views they have acquired from the various fields of expertise, and, have one’s own creative agents, it can, help them set up for what they’re capable of in their future careers.
We’re glad to be in the universities to learn, and we must be more understanding of other’s views, and we need to have that mindset of the tabula rasa, to not believe that what I know is what I know, but what I still need to know more of, like a sponge, the students need to absorb the knowledge, to get the varied views from the conversations. And, in order to acquire this skill set, the student would need to engage in discussion with the professors as well as one’s fellow students, and there’s also, that need from the individual, to start branching out in discovery.
The college students should actively be willing to contribute what they learned in school, to the society, they can get involved in various service-oriented learning, whether it be going to the distant-regions to help the students, or to work alongside the elderly population to help the specific group get more out of the high-tech era; or go to the social welfare organizations, special education schools, and work with the various kinds of people with handicaps, it can all help you expand the resources you’d gained off of the textbooks, and it can help you gain more responsibilities toward the society, and this, is my wish for all the college students who are about to begin a brand new semester of education.
And so, this, is still, quite ideal, I mean, this, IS the modern day world that we live in, and, the values just, don’t work that way, surely, this sort of a belief might work in the past, when we had a better sense of how connected with the rest of the outside environment we are, but now, we’re all, living, together separately, inside, those, tiny little boxes, which makes it, more difficult, for this person’s view to work out!
Life, the Obstacle Course 