Leng Yue (Shaanxi Normal University).
Recently, Professor Peng Kaiping, Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Tsinghua University, mentioned in an interview with the Global People program "Open Mouth" that our education is completely unequal between ideals and skills. "What kind of life do you want your children to live in the future, without exception, is a happy life," the professor said. What do you say your child should learn now, then you must learn the ability to make money and the ability to work. Our education is all about workers, and we really don't teach how to be happy. ”
Some netizens commented, "Children want to be happy, parents want to be happy, but after walking out of school, does society make them happy?" Most netizens uphold the view that "if you want to be happy, you must have money, and if you want to be spiritually happy, you must have a material foundation". While it is true that this view is understandable in today's consumption-driven society, it is also important to pay attention to the profound connotations of "happiness" itself. Money is not the only source of happiness, there are many sources of happiness, and it should not only be profit that guides life.
The focus is, is a person's life spent in the pursuit of endless material foundations, or in the process of chasing happiness, discovering that material foundations are part of the path to happiness, so they must constantly strive to accumulate wealth? Most of the time, people nowadays blur the focus of things, thinking that happiness requires abundant wealth, but ignore that happiness itself comes in many forms. Family harmony is happiness, academic success is happiness, and what you want is a kind of happiness. Life should be guided by love, not just material possessions.
The professor's statement has alerted countless parents, instilling in their children all day long the idea and pressure of "study hard or suffer losses", in essence, it is the parents who have experienced that after experiencing that time, they found that the "beating" of society made them "eat a trench and grow wise", and only then did they suddenly wake up to "the original reading is the fastest shortcut". I once remembered that there was a "golden sentence" on the Internet: after leaving school, there are no more things that can achieve results through hard work. As the professor said, education teaches how to work hard and how to work for others, not how to be happy and how to pursue love.
In other words, guided by love and aimed at happiness, the life you have must be the life you want, and it is naturally the life you think is "happy". In the end, the "myth" that "to be happy, you need a material foundation" is self-defeating. In recent years, sojourning, backpacking and road trips have become popular lifestyles for young people, who are undoubtedly happy, but not all of them have a lot of money. In the report of "New Weekly", 30-year-old Xiaofu went out with her husband to "wander" for 100 days and lived a random life away from Beijing. The change in lifestyle is the best example of "love" guiding life and "happy" oriented behavior.