There is no difference in subjects, and the difference and inequality of social needs lead to the psychological gap of some students, which is a realistic dilemma. However, the value of liberal arts students can not be ignored. From a broader perspective, natural scientists, humanities scholars and artists are the same kind of people. The birth of splendid civilization in the times can not be separated from any one of these people, and even originated from the intersection of their research.
1. From the macro data, the employment situation of liberal arts students is not ideal. Among the top 50 majors with employment rate in 2020, science majors have achieved the absolute dominance with 43 seats.
It is not that some liberal arts students are frustrated in the job market, but with the phrase "Kong Yiji literature", some liberal arts students begin to question whether it is really worthwhile to choose literature firmly at the beginning.
2. Why has the employment situation of liberal arts students become a hot topic in recent years?
The epidemic is the direct cause. In the past three years, some industries where liberal arts students can get high salaries have been affected to varying degrees. The Internet industry has laid off employees, reduced positions such as product managers and operations, and favored science students with computer backgrounds. The downturn in the real estate industry has left a group of liberal arts graduates with one less choice.
Similarly, because of the epidemic, students spend most of their time in online classes, unable to enter and leave the campus freely, and have lost many internship opportunities. This may not affect science students, but it is a great blow to liberal arts students who urgently need internship to prove their value. Enterprises always hope to recruit employees who can create immediate benefits, but without internship experience, it is difficult to do it only by what they learn at school.
Some policy changes are also factors that affect the employment of liberal arts students. The most direct is the K 12 teaching and training industry. The introduction of the "double reduction" policy is conducive to promoting the balanced development of compulsory education and effectively curbing the increasingly utilitarian training market. And some liberal arts graduates who can't enter the school as teachers have really lost the opportunity to be tutors.
On the other hand, the number of graduates is indeed increasing. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Education, among about 1 1.58 million graduates in 2023, liberal arts students accounted for nearly 40%, about 4.63 million. Among the majors included in liberal arts, finance, accounting and other majors have always been popular, but some science students will also choose such positions to participate in the competition.
3. The road to learning literature is tortuous, and there will always be obstacles in front of you to hinder your progress. However, while complaining, we might as well ask ourselves why we chose to study literature in the first place.
Perhaps most liberal arts students have this experience-infected by a TV series, they want to be a just lawyer, moved by the phrase "Spring blossoms face the sea", they want to be writers, they are addicted to novelists' words, they envy the elegance of diplomats on news channels, and they are curious about the nature of our society, or perhaps it is just because of the humorous talk of history teachers and the poems and songs that Chinese teachers can get at their fingertips.
"Because of my love, I didn't hesitate at first."
In the conversation with many liberal arts students, the reporter got such an answer. Before deciding to study literature, parents and teachers will tell us more or less that it is not easy to find a job in the future, there will be more bottlenecks to break through, and even the original dream cannot be realized, but the blood is always boiling at the moment when children make up their minds.
The dust of time may have buried the original heart, but there are always people who are willing to pay for love. Rola Chen, who holds a master's degree from a 985 university in Zhejiang, chose to work in a TV station because he loves shooting documentaries. Her monthly salary is about 5000 yuan, which is far from her classmates. She is not afraid to walk outdoors in the sun with heavy machines, and she is not afraid to work overtime and stay up late to cut movies. She just wants a chance to exercise and study, and she will go wherever she wants to give it to her.
From a broader perspective, the significance of liberal arts education is not limited to an excellent propaganda manuscript, but a short film with smooth editing. Philosophy has cultivated rational thinking, linguistics has opened the window of world cultural exchange, social science has explored the law of social development, and law has established a good way to govern the world ... The power of words can be transmitted for thousands of years across time, which is the glorious imprint of ideological civilization.
China's 5,000-year history, romantic literati in Wei and Jin Dynasties, and heroes in Sui and Tang Dynasties all entered our door, and the Song Dynasty had an economic and political civilization that literati admired. A society with broken rituals and declining literature does not deserve natural science. Arts and sciences are walking on two legs, both of which are indispensable.
The civilization of every era reached its peak at the intersection of science and literature. Maybe you are just an ordinary liberal arts graduate and want to ask where the future of liberal arts lies. If you must give an exact answer, it is: the future is in your own hands.