Wang Chian-shuan, the Minister of the Control Yuan, once threw a speech in February, 2010, in I-lan University on whether a college should be moonlighting during semeters. He creticized most Taiwanian college students for their poor time management mainly on two aspects:
1. College students spend most of their time off-class on part-time jobs, narrowing their eye on 80 to 90 NTD an hour's pay, earning a little pocket money for insignificant personal comsuming, which is a 'foolish decision' at the cost of sacraficing maybe the most important 'golden period' in their whole lives. Wang put much emphasis on the necessity of reading, especiallly reading good books, such as great people's autobiographies, through which students can learn by the easier way about the experiences of failure and success, as well as some remarkable probes into certain fields. In addition, they can make the most use of their free time organizing their notes taken in classes, highlighting some important handouts or reference books, and college students can share their reviews with each others. To take part-time jobs during this critical four years for only some 7 or 8 hundred bugs a day, which will soon be vanished by a single movie dating or an order of steak, is no more than to trade stones with gold.
2. College students shouldn't be easily subject to the temptation ofan money, vanities, or other meterialized matters. They are dazzled by the power of money, and they are obsessed by the grizzling shining lucre to immerse themselves into the endless wirlpool of gluttony and greed, not knowing being slaved by it and yoked to the slaughterhouse for their souls skinned. And so is the source of corruption and malicious bureaucracy. 'Sweet is the silver, though as sharp as sickle', warned Wang ernestly and worried. He mentioned that there exists an euphamism as part-time job gleaning personal working and social experiences. 'Why not do it later after graduation?', 'Not being able to pay the tuition fees? Why not turn to local governments for college subsidies?,' he thumbed nose at those wordings for plausible excuses. The value in the minds of today's young people have changed since then. They get richer, and at the same time they become much poorer. Wang also sighed with concern that students don't buy books for how could they read if they don't even bother to buy ones?
Right after the news' been released, many students interviewed stated that it was Wang himself that was foolish. They complained about his ignorance and naiveness of not understanding the normal living standard of civilians and his prejudice on the stereotype of studying methodology. 'One swallow doesn't make a summer after all', according to some of the interviewers.
Well, in my opinion, I don't think that Mr. Wang would purposely mean that taking part-time jobs is foolish, nor would he really incite a protest against his misinterpretation. He was just a kind little oldie and wanted us students to know exactly what we are for in college and never lose spirits when encountering obstacles on way of pursuing higher education, only to choose another way of language. Par-time jobs, in comparison with the real pitching in on the majors we take in college, are simply trivial. Do not catch the shadow and lose th substance. That's it. We should not take his words literally, but spiritually. We should not look at his reproach as taunts, but love and care. In a word, it is wonderful and ideal, in his mind and maybe in his dreams, if every student knows exactly what they love doing and what they are doing, and thus make the most use of their time to achieve what they really should be.
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