These two days,Zhang Xuefeng said that "liberal arts are all service industries".The topic sparked heated discussions on the whole network.
Extended topics such as the uselessness of liberal arts, the fact that liberal arts students are at the bottom of the chain of employment contempt, and the regret of choosing liberal arts for a lifetime have once again sparked discussion. Many liberal arts students broke the big defense in an instant.
Is the liberal arts really "low-grade"?Is it really useless?
From the liberal arts and sciences division of high school to the employment of college liberal arts graduates, we have all touched on it before, "9 years after the launch of the new college entrance examination, what happened to the students after the liberal arts and sciences were not separated?"."The salary of 211 masters is not as good as 711, and liberal arts students are really not as good as science students?".》。
This time, we would like to share the ones that have recently become popularDu Sujuan, a professor at East China University of Political Science and Law, talks about why she said, "Literature contains huge resources for life."
She talks about life through literature and looks at life from the perspective of literatureThere are a lot of young people, especially 45° young people who can't roll and lie flat.
Du Sujuan talks about literature.
It's too hard to be yourself on the track, and it's too risky to go to the wilderness, how to choose?”
It's always painful?General anesthesia experience **life, would you like to?”
Denied, belittled, suppressed, and ignored. How to deal with unhappy parents?"Wait.
One after another realistic topics hit the "key points" of students, providing guidance and help for those young people who are confused on the road of life.
Some netizens shared their after-class comments: "I like the last sentence so much,Reading literature is not about finding an answer in a book, many times you just need to know that there is another possibility. ”
Du Sujuan talks about literature.
Zhu Guangqian said: "Literature is an art that is most closely related to life. "Let's take a look through Mr. Du's class togetherWhat does literary education mean in terms of life?
Mr. Du mentioned that the process of growing up is also the process of finding one's place in society, even if it seems that every stage of our life has been written with standard answers, high school graduation and admission to a prestigious school, college graduation and work ashore, 30 years old, 65 years of retirement.
In other words, we have our own subjectivity, not NPCs.
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Stuff the child with test papers,
But he never observed them
Netizen Xiaoduan (pseudonym) and her friend grew up together, the two have a very good relationship, and the parents also get along well. However,The petiana always can't escape the fate of being compared.
Her parents would compare their friends' grades with her, and even though the two had chosen different majors and lived in different cities, their parents would still pay attention to their friends' grades, graduate school plans, and accuse Xiaodian of lack of motivation, which made her very distressed and desperate.
Screenshot of bilibili.
Nine years have passed, and Xiaodian admits that he has not yet shaken off this shadow. She said: "Actually, she is very good, but I really can't be good friends with her, and my parents have planted too many trees for me."'Her benchmark'I couldn't treat her with a normal heart. ”
Many people have experienced similar difficulties, and there are many people like the little end around us, and even ourselves.
This class is full of studentsTrapped under "peer pressure" and in the shadow of "excellent benchmarking"., looking at other people's glittering resumes, and then comparing their own not "successful" lives, can only laugh at themselves:"I'm like I'm here to make up the numbers", it's the NPC in someone else's storyline.
However, what is "success"?
Teacher Du Sujuan provided an answer for students in class.
In class, she tells the story of The Moon and Sixpence, in which Strickland, the protagonist, gives up his life as a **agent in his 40s and chooses to become a painter.
She told the students that the story was not about emulating Strickland's approach, but about understanding a truth:"To respect your own experience, to know what you do will feel worthwhile and happy, in fact, this is called ideal, it is called success. ”
However, there are still many students who say they don't know what they're interested in or what they don't like. Some students cried: "Teacher, I don't like my major, what should I do?"”
In the face of the confusion of the students, teacher Du Sujuan pointed out: ".We stuffed the children with rolls without observing themThey don't know what they like when they reach their 20s, and then they are blamed for not being creative. What an unreasonable thing to do!”
Xiao Nanzhi.
She thinksEducation should help a child to constantly discover his or her gifts and talents. She stressed that this should start with more basic schooling and family education, and when it comes to college, it is difficult to make up for "mistakes".
To this end, she chose to use literary classics such as "The Old Man and the Sea" and "Faust" to tell the truth of life close to the lives of young people. She tries to link literature education with life education, hoping to "make up a little bit of lessons for children".
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The single-track life of a good child is "all suffering".
NPCs are often seen as obscure and background-based characters, while "protagonists" are often seen as having a good time. However, this is not the case.
In recent years, related985 colleges and universities suspend their studies, drop out, and give up after the graduate school entrance examinationand other news and posts appear frequently, such young people, who are regarded as "good students" and "proud sons of the sky" in the conventional sense, seem to be experiencing inner distress and pain.
Little Red Book.
In the process of educating and reaching out to students, Du Sujuan found thatThe pain of growing up in children is all too common. "This generation of only children bears the hopes of the whole family and the expectations of society. ”A single-track life vision from good grades to good college and a good life, bringing a lot of pressure.
In this case, children are facing great mental pressure, and their interests, hobbies, and specialties are not suitable for themselves and can not be sufficiently cultivated.
*: Screenshot of netizen comments.
When Du Sujuan perused "The Unbearable Lightness of Life", he said: "The tragedy of kitsch that Milan Kundera spoke of through Sabina constitutes the internal friction of most of us. ”
In her opinion,In an environment dominated by single-track thinking, everyone is anxiousIn the end, the success of the volume is always a minority, and most people experience more of the damage of the volume.
Du Sujuan talks about literature.
What's more, under a single criterion, there are still people who fall into"Compare the pain".The psychology of ——
When they feel hard, the first thing they think about is not to take care of themselves, but to Xi comparing themselves with others"Is anyone more tired than me?Am I qualified to shout tired?”
As a mother, Du Sujuan reflected on her own approach to education: she was saddened to findI also pushed my daughter to do a lot of things that were ahead of Xi and Xi beyond the curriculum, but neglected what really mattered – leading her to think about society, life, self and emotions.
She noted: ".It seems that most of the time in our education, we only care about how children can get higher scores, and less about their inner stateLess analysis of their personality traits and emotional needs, less attention to how they grow up healthy and complete. ”
Although she understands that the role of a university teacher is limited, Du Sujuan believes that it is something that is truly valuable and meaningful. "If I'm in a big desert, I want to try to plant a tree, even if it's just one or two people under the tree. ”
Fortunately, the hard work was not in vain, and she received praise from a group of students.
Screenshot of the comment area.
In her class, the students felt that as ordinary people, when you feel that you are not free to be yourself, it doesn't matter, don't be afraid, because everyone is like that, but the key is that you have to leave a "path" for yourself.
We can't do anything about that road, most of us have to be on that roadBut the path next to it makes it malleable, and you can't forget itAlthough you don't know what day this road will go or what it will be, you have to stick to it.
Always believe that there are other possibilities in your life, that is, "resilience in life".
Since Du Sujuan opened an account on the ** platform, the voice of doubt has been constantly sounding:"What is the use of your literature for us?”She has also encountered doubts in her daily life:
You are a doctoral student at East China Normal University, you have received systematic training in literary theory, and you should make greater achievements on the academic path, so why bother to tell undergraduate students about life?”
In the face of these doubts, Du Sujuan felt pain and lonelinessIs it really "meaningless" and "pediatric" to tell about life through literature?
However, she firmly believes that literature is more than just a resource for academic research or an academic gameIt is also an ideological resource for ordinary peopleIt can provide inspiration and reference for life.
*: Screenshot of Du Sujuan's interview.
Netizen @Yizhi Huhu is a junior in the Chinese department, and she has also asked herself the question "why do we need literature", but has never come up with an answer. She started her liberal arts in high schoolIt seems that it has always been confined to the thinking that "liberal arts students are not as good as science students".
When I go to university, compared with those students who study computer science and medicine, I often feel that I have no skills. But when she came to the lake,The moment of "floating light and gold" flashed in my mind, as if the meaning of reading was revealed.
In her notes, she copied a passage from "Invisible Literature": ".In fact, the reason why we want to read literature and appreciate art is because each of us has aesthetic desires and needs.
In reality, our lives are often extremely utilitarian, leading each of us to yearn for true freedom in another space, so as to find the true self. ”
Screenshot of Yizhi Huhu Xiaohongshu.
Everyone's experience is limited. Some young people may not be able to receive effective guidance from their elders when faced with life decisions, so they may need to:There is a huge cost of trial and error in groping.
Du Sujuan moved the classroom to the Internet and integrated literary analysis into ** because she believed: "In literary works,Writers condense the pits they have stepped on, their painful experiences of life, and their cognition of society and culture into words.
If we can decipher it and teach children the wisdom of life, they may be able to avoid unnecessary suffering, step on unnecessary pitfalls, and avoid unnecessary detours. ”
Visual China.
"Tell literature with life, and talk about life through literature".This is the literary education that Du Sujuan pursues, and she hopes that her literature class will be like a tree in the wilderness, where some young people in a hurry stop in the shade and set off with a more determined gaze.
Recently, on social platforms"Cloud nourishes itself".The ** is very hot. These ** show a re-examination of life, the pursuit of self-pleasure attitude of life.
Some people advocate rejecting anxiety, restarting life, and doing things that make you happy. There are also some young people who say they are"Revenge compensation" for childhood as a way to "generously entertain one's childhood self".
The idea of "being pure yourself" is consistent with Du Sujuan's view.
She talked about it several times in her literature class:Young people should live an angular life, be brave enough to imagine themselves, and not be held hostage by external standards.
She recommended Lu Xun's "Passerby" to the students"Sometimes we need a little bit of Lu Xun's strength."When the basic survival needs are met, what kind of path to take, everyone's choice should be different, this is not a standard answer, but "we should have a personalized standard." ”
Someone once criticized, "The 'ideal' you talked about is too ideal" and "In the end, it's still a bowl of chicken soup." There are also people who are puzzled: "The young people in Mr. Du's mouth, where is their foothold?"”
Du Sujuan said: "I didn't know before, I went through a very long, lonely, lonely, self-doubting stage, I doubted my career, I also doubted my ideals, and even doubted the meaning of my life, I doubted," Du Sujuan saidBut I realized later that my footing was just myself. ”
A college student shared his insights: "I realized early on that the education I received was far from enough for me to become the person I want to be. So when I went to university, I learned to take care of myself, learn Xi life skills, develop hobbies, and communicate with different people.
In this free society, we are all individuals. Du Sujuan borrowed the power of literature to tell young people:We have to find our own legitimacy.
Sometimes, forging your own path outside the mainstream is actually taking on a different kind of mission- Create individuality and make this society richer and more diverse. And these different existences can prove the freedom and tolerance of this world and society.
The power of literature lies in its close integration with life.
We need to consider the utility of utilitarianism, and we also need to see:
Every footprint of human beings is the result of the joint action of arts and sciences;The liberal arts and sciences have never been an absolute separation;and the spiritual and subjective needs of the individual as an individual outside of instrumental reason.
As both a teacher and an elder, Du Sujuan borrowed literature to tell young people that they don't have to be entangled"Live a little easier, and the road of life will be a little lighter and less heavy."
References: 1] Educator - Du Sujuan: I want to make young people's lives lighter.
2] Guangming Society Educator - Huazheng Du Sujuan: The life of this generation of children seems to have only one track, and they are all suffering.
3] Mai Jia: Literature is life, and all literature in life is there.
4] Cattle herding class - Overnight, "Mo" occupied the circle of young people's lives.
5] Wu Zhihong - This sentence of "positive energy" that I heard since I was a child is the most depressing.