Being a college student is a lot of people’s dream, and colleges as the highest educational level are very important for every college student. However, there are several questions always confuse many students, such as what does students study for in colleges or why does students should study some courses which doesn’t have a close relationship with their major? Professor John Ciardi wrote an essay about this situation in 50 years ago. He had a student came to his office and asked why a pharmacist had to study Hamlet, and he told the student that the both for training technical skill and education, especially liberal arts. Nowadays, the society is more developed than 50 years ago, and people’s mind also change a lot. Students of the universities are more independence and smarter, and they always only want to listen the advices from their own. Therefore, it’s very difficult to convince today’s college students to study the humanities just by one article, actually they don’t like to study this course. Students want to choose a major that can make more money in the future. Furthermore, the today’s students would like to spend a lot of time on their hobbies. Finally, the humanities are a difficult topic for the college students, and it also more boring than other classes.
In recent years, development of economy is the most important problem for every country, especially since finalcial crisis in 2007, many companies have shutted down and employes have losten their jobs. Therefore, most countries have paid more attention to develop economy nowadays. For this reson, the society actually become a “money society” that means people can do anything they want if they have enough money. Today’s college studnets are very realistic and smart, and they can figuer out what’s going on in the society. Students know that
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how money is important for their life today, and they have a very clear target that is making more money. Therefore, a growing number of college...