Is the liberal arts useful?The answer is unequivocal, and of course it is useful, and it can be very useful. Is it useful for liberal arts students?But it's hard to say, if you have to say, you can only say that very few are useful.
Nowadays, a large number of liberal arts students are too watery, which is in response to Huang Jingren's sentence: Nine out of ten people are white-eyed, and none of them are scholars. It's useless, and some people are still counterproductive.
Of course, no matter what kind of art you study or what kind of business you make a living, you will inevitably be mixed with the dirty people, but the huge base of students of liberal arts and the extremely common useless people are the main reasons why this discipline has been criticized.
There are too many humanities and social sciences majors in our universities, and the enrollment of master's and doctoral degrees has been greatly expanded.
In the past few decades, there have been no groundbreaking research results and new ideas in the field of liberal arts, nor have there been any masters or outstanding figures of the brilliant era.
Therefore, what we really need to reflect on is that our liberal arts education does not teach students independent personality, free thought, social responsibility, and family and country feelings. In this era, in this society, there are still a few people who can remember what they are studying for. What Mr. Hengqu said, for heaven and earth, for the people, for the sake of the saints, for the eternal peace, for a long time!
The education of philistines has cultivated a large number of philistines and the education of flattery has cultivated a large number of flattering people, which is the terrible reality of our humanities and social sciences education, and it is also the great sorrow of humanities and social sciences education. It is necessary to carry out a revolutionary reform of the higher education system, so that the literati who come out of the university campus have the backbone, the thought, the ability and the responsibility. I think that by that time, naturally no one will despise the liberal arts.