As is implied in the picture, a new trend in higher education is the retreat from humanities to science and technology and other career-oriented specialized studies. In the universities, the best selling courses are usually about finance, law, accounting, management and so on. Even candidates for colleges and universities become more and more practically-minded when coming to the choice of majors. Throughout the country, schools are under pressure to become more vocationalized (职业化).
One reason is that it's difficult to get grants for the liberal arts(文科) studies, for, unlike the specialized studies whose results can be immediately converted into profits, what the liberal arts studies produce is only helpful to the nurturing of ethics and human values. The second is that parents and students tend to scorn the courses that do not teach people how to become attractive to employers in a rapidly tightening job market. As a result, literature and philosophy are only regarded as intellectual adornments(装饰品), contributing nothing directly to a job.
However, the goal of education is to produce not only specialists, but also the educated and developed mind because being productive requires not only professional capabilities, but also the ability to deal with people and the world around with grace and the ability to create the joy of living. So instead of trying to shrink the liberal arts, it's time for us to find ways to infuse(浸入) it into other specialized studies. Only by doing so can we produce the well-developed talents for the future.
(D a new trend
® vocationalization
© career-oriented
© specialized studies ^
© the liberal arts studies
© the nurturing of ethics and human values
© be regarded as intellectual adornments
® contribute nothing directly to a job
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