Why does Zhang Xuefeng look down on liberal arts again?

A few days ago, Zhang Xuefeng, a "famous mouth for postgraduate entrance examinations", was on the hot search again because of his "disrespectful remarks" about the liberal arts major.

During the live broadcast with him, a parent said that his child could score 140 points in mathematics, but his child did not want to study science. Hearing this, Zhang Xuefeng poured a basin of cold water on them straightforwardly: "Do you want to go to college in the future with a low grade, still."Engaged in low-grade industriesAll liberal arts majors are in the service industryDo you know what the service industry is?Summed up in one word, it is licking, Party A is right,I'll give you a smile, it's called the service industry. "You think that being a lawyer looks high, lawyers are all sales, you have to sell yourself, and let the other party hand over the case to you. "You must not let yourself do the kind of business that licks people for the rest of your life for the sake of your temporary perception of the grade of the college. ”…"Liberal Arts = Service = Lick"?As soon as these words came out, many liberal arts students were angry. They said that it was precisely because of the existence of people with vulgar language like Zhang Xuefeng that the significance of the existence of liberal arts was proven.

In addition to the so-called "licking", liberal arts students will do far more things than Mr. Zhang imagined.

To put it further, if no one studies liberal arts, how will Chinese civilization be inherited?

The fight is raging here, and over there, science students engaged in the service industry are also poked by the psychological button with the word "licking". Mr. Lai, who got an undergraduate degree in computer science at Peking University, ran to the comment area with a question mark full of questions and asked: "What's wrong with the service industry?""We're also in the service industry. "Why do you look down on the service industry?”

That's right. As an important part of the tertiary industry, the service industry is all-encompassing. Engaging in housekeeping and catering is a service industry, and engaging in finance and information technology is also a service industry. The service industry that comes to the general office does not look low. And everyone goes to work in society to serve others. If you don't dwarf a good service industry into "licking" and laughing, it can only be said that Mr. Zhang's pattern is limited.

With the fermentation of public opinion, criticism from netizens, experts and scholars from all walks of life has come one after another. Zhang Xuefeng realized that he was talking again, and hurriedly apologized:

In order to show sincerity, it was also replaced with a special **:

Still, these gestures did not please the critics. Commentators continued to bombard him in editorials, asking him if he really knew he was wrongHe was asked to apologize with more sincerity, and at the same time did not forget to remind the public to be alert to the dangers of the "Zhang Xuefeng phenomenon". They said:

This "Mimeng" in the online education industry does not care about the significance of liberal arts to the development of the country.

It also does not care about the physical and mental health, humanistic accomplishment and long-term development of young people.

His utilitarian rhetoric is spreading negative energy ...... to contemporary youth

Seeing Zhang Xuefeng being held by the commentators of the big newspapers, melon-eating netizens speculated: He hacked journalism and offended ** people, so he attracted the attention of many black fans. The science primary school bully in Xinjiang, because he loves the media and wants to apply for a journalism major, you call your parents to knock people out?He also said that it is better to touch a major with your eyes closed than journalism

Behold, retribution is coming. Now you can say a word casually, and people can send you to the hot search.

To give you a little news shock.

Of course, it's a bit of a shame to think so. After all, Mr. Zhang, who has an excellent sense of the Internet, has often "spoken endlessly" since his debut, and many of his speeches have directly hit the pain points of the society, and he has his own topic of discussion. If you turn a blind eye to a traffic maker like him, it is really unprofessional. Especially when there is nothing to report in the off-season, Zhang Xuefeng can just send charcoal to the snow. There are also many supporters who believe that Mr. Zhang is not pretending to be amazing, he is just using the vernacular to express the realityThe words are not rough. He is not alone in society who dislikes liberal arts. "Persuade people to learn literature, and the sky thunders. Persuading people to learn the Fa is a thousand cuts. "This kind of joke has been around for ten years.

You don't see, the liberal arts students themselves are wailing that they are big grievances.

There are also people who blacken themselves:"Who said liberal arts are a service industry?We are animal husbandry. When a cow is a horse, we not only have to lick Party A, but also kneel and lick. ”Three years ago, the fourth-ranked high-scoring candidate in liberal arts in Hunan Province chose to go to Peking University for archaeology, and was also taught by a circle of netizens that "there is no way to make money".

When it comes to unpopular liberal arts majors such as literature, history and philosophy, many people have a consensus. These 12 words of proverbs come to their minds:The curriculum is low, the threshold is low, the employment is difficult, and the salary is low. But who's to say that's not true?

(That's the case...) While each of us faces the darkest moment of our careers, the difficult years of liberal arts graduates seem to begin the moment they graduate. When the average salary of 5,500 yuan for a master's degree in literature at Shanghai University was broken by the average salary of 5,500 at the job fair, a female doctor of history at Tsinghua University found another way to find a job with a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan - to be an astrologer. When Sichuan University's Master of Philosophy was unemployed and delivered food, another Xiaohongshu blogger was lamenting that "Master of Philosophy is too easy to find a job". If you wipe the glass for three hours, you can earn 120.

It is worth mentioning that the homepage of this master is very substantial. In June, he was still posting literature discussing the gender gaze in JK, the mirror self in human displacement, the illusion of consumerism, and the limitations of liberalism. He graduated in September and joined the camp of domestic workers, recording every day how to wash the air conditioner and organize the dishes. Finally, I finally posted this note in December: "I earned 120 for 3 hours of cleaning glass, and the Master of Philosophy is really easy to find a job!."”

The picture outlined by data is more backbone than individual stories. According to the "2022 College Student Employability Survey Report" released by Zhaopin, the contract rate of science and engineering graduates significantly outperforms that of humanities and social sciences.

The signing rate of graduates in the humanities is less than 13%, and the economics and management classes are even worse. As the Internet and education and training industries increase their efforts to "optimize personnel" this year, the employment space for these students may be further reduced. These circumstances also invisibly confirm Zhang Xuefeng's view. There are no professional barriers in the liberal artsIt's easy for HR to find a replacement for liberal arts students. When Zhang San can do a job and Li Si can do it, it is destined that Zhang San and Li Si will not be able to enjoy a high salary, and there is a possibility of being "optimized" at any time.

In the face of societal skepticism about the liberal arts, some scholars admit that the liberal arts do seem useless. At the same time, they will also send everyone such a sentence:"What is useless is used for great use. ”Meaning, you don't look at it as useless, but maybe one day in your life, you'll find it useful. This makes sense, but it is more like self-comfort, and it is not at all able to convince families who pursue a quick realization of their academic qualifications. It's not that those families don't want liberal arts, but they can't afford liberal arts. Science and engineering, which can allow children to go all over the world, is obviously more cost-effective.

You must know that if you want to get ahead by studying liberal arts, you first need to be prepared to invest in education for the long term. You should at least get a Ph.D., and then find a place to work as a Ph.D. for a few years, and then you can enter universities, research institutes, think tanks, and have a decent job. After this, there is still all evil "ascend or go" waiting for you. You have to be rated as an associate professor or associate researcher as soon as possible to get a good job. Projects and resources will follow. Go to the cave and give a lecture on the weekend to earn one or two hundred thousand, which is also a small cass. Probably, that's what the professors say"The useless use, although it is late, arrives".

(A Tsinghua teacher's provident fund bill).However, not every family has the conditions to let their children slowly explore in the ocean of humanity. For wage earners, finding a good job as soon as possible is the ultimate meaning of hard work. EspeciallyThe expansion of university enrollment has led to a depreciation of academic qualificationsIn the context of studying a highly applied major, you can find more accurate employment after graduation.

This "employment-oriented" view of education may seem to some to be a vulgar philistine, but it is indeed the rules of the game that the bottom must face. Many supporters feel that Zhang Xuefeng, who tells the truth, is the one who really stands at the bottom and avoids the pit for those families. He could tell them in the most straightforward way what was the best solution for people of their class. More often than not, engineering is an investment. And liberal arts is consumption. If you don't have a foundation at home, you can't afford to consume these majors.

Ordinary people don't care about the grand narrative of the country's discipline construction and so on, they just want to start from the perspective of realism to understand how to choose a major, how to choose a university, and how to plan employment. This information is either unclear for political correctness or a bunch of academic terms to make you dizzy. Only Zhang Xuefeng said directly.

Although his words are inevitably flawed and subjectively biased, and can also undermine a child's confidence, it may be the truth that some people need to see. Some parents want their children to apply for power majors to enter the power grid, Zhang Xuefeng persuaded him, people can't want you. There is a child who wants to enter the tobacco bureau to apply for the tobacco major, he said, you think too much. For those who want to make a fortune by going to a military academy to get promoted, he bluntly said that if you really want to contribute to the country and are willing to bear all the "potential possibilities", then you should report it, and if you have other selfish motives, you should not report it. ......

Others laugh at me for not having ideals, and I laugh at others for not being able to see through it. In the face of Zhang Xuefeng's suggestion, people with resources can listen to it as a joke. But for those families who are closed to information, listening to him may really save ten years of sin. Looking at Zhang Xuefeng's career cheats circulating on the Internet:

Some people say that he deserves to enjoy the temple.

Strictly speaking, Zhang Xuefeng's derogatory remarks about liberal arts are indeed not rigorous. Working in the service industry is not the preserve of liberal arts students. According to the current classification of industries, if you are not a worker or peasant, you can only join the tertiary industry, which is the so-called "all kinds of service industries or businesses".

Regardless of whether you study literature or science, as long as you are employed in the tertiary industry, you will be in the service industry. And the vast majority of people are engaged in the essence of sales, but the things they sell are different. Those who do finance should sell wealth management products. Those who do insurance should sell insurance. Those who make games should have a good relationship with various channels. And the more senior you are, the more sales work you do. Even if you enter the system one day, you still have to do sales if you don't get it right. Lan Xiaohuan shared such a story in "Being in the Matter". One year, he participated in a city's investment mobilization meeting, and a cadre with good performance said this:

To do a good job, you need "a copper head, an iron mouth, downwind ears, a rubber waist, a teapot belly, and a rabbit leg".

Copper head refers to daring;Iron mouth refers to being able to speak well;Downwind ears and rabbit legs, referring to being well-informed and agile;Teapot belly refers to being able to drink and socialize. ”

The rubber waist is to respect the merchants, and when the body should be soft, you must be able to bend down, but you can't give in casually during the negotiation process. ”

It can also allow future generations not to be burdened by livelihoods. Come to think of it, if his daughter also works in the service industry in the future, she probably won't need to lick it. The confidence from the family can make her a party B who rectifies Party A.

Unfortunately, not everyone has a good dad. When society develops to the stage of stock game, people who have no father to fight for always have endless helplessness. No matter what it is, it's all like that. When encountering a harsh gold owner's father, who is not a fallen person at the end of the world?

The more realistic situation is that employment is becoming more difficult every year, no matter what major you choose, everyone has to meet on the road to the public examination. Doctor of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, to compete in the street. Master's degree in International Relations from East China Normal University will serve in the Traffic Enforcement Brigade. An undergraduate student majoring in civil engineering at Zhejiang University, he worked as a treasurer at the Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall. ......It doesn't matter what you learn. At the end of the universe, it is all about "serving the people".

Finally, I would like to share with you a comment from our fans. Compared with Zhang Xuefeng's complaints, this netizen's reflection on liberal arts is more profound:

The country is developing, and it stands to reason that the liberal arts have a lot of useful functions. For example, to tell a good story about China, you need journalistic talents. To do a good job in international strategy, we need personnel in national relations. Even if you shoot a few excellent online dramas, you also need the support of Wen, Shi and Zhe. However, the reality is that the current liberal arts education system can neither cultivate Kissinger and Brzezinski for the country, nor can it meet the actual needs of society and the public. It's embarrassing to think about. What's even more embarrassing is such a real story: a domestic think tank invited a well-known Western oneEconomicsMy family came to China to give lectures. The presentation fee given by the other party** is$120,000。He travels first class to and from and and only wants to spend one night in China. The think tank met his requests, but also offered to arrange for some Chinese academic colleagues to communicate with him. But he refused, on the following grounds:

I have nothing to say to the Chinese scholars, their minds are too barren ......