18.We Need to Learn How to Learn

Influenced by the new marketing system, students have quite different opinions about the objective of their study.  Some of them hold that a diploma is certainly something they are in college for.  They believe that the diploma will enlarge the opportunities in their job-hunting.  So their college life is almost focused completely on book learning. 

Others tend to challenge themselves to learn more than a diploma requires.  They believe that it is most important to widen personal interests and develop various abilities while at college.  For this purpose, they have every reason to pride themselves  on excellent academic achievements in subjects they teach themselves beyond their majors.

As a college student, I firmly believe that college is a place where we learn how to learn.  We should take best advantage of the chance to broadly – math, history, and various other sciences, not merely for a diploma.  On the other hand, it is also quite necessary that we take a wide interest in computer, foreign languages or other practical disciplines rather than just confine ourselves to textbooks, so that we could become versatile candidates in the future job markets.  Only in this way can we keep up with the times.