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Which way to the future?
Before starting the new lesson, I read to my students the article "Derailed Trains" by author Nguyen Thi Phinh published in Tuoi Tre newspaper.
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| Many candidates are waiting to submit their university application in the recent registration period. Among them, how many of you have achieved your dream? - Photo: Quang Dinh |
Read to share and read to teach students a lesson outside the classroom, a lesson about which path leads to the future. Because people often say: " With many paths leading to the future, only you can choose the right path for yourself ." That is a truth.
For candidates standing on the threshold of university, choosing the right path is not an easy task if their parents forbid their interests.
In fact, to establish a career, each person needs to wisely choose a path for themselves based on their own abilities and interests .
However, because you do not have enough experience, help and advice from your family, school... is necessary. However, the final decision on which path to take in the future is up to you. You, and no one else, are the masters of your future.
Regularly reading newspapers or talking to students, I understand more and more the feelings of children who have to study according to “parents’ passion”, “parents’ wishes” instead of their own passion. And then from that concession, sadness haunts them when they sit in the university lecture hall, or enter life because of “indulging their parents”.
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In the second semester of last school year, I talked to a student who had just graduated but became a 12th grader.
I asked her: " After graduating, why don't you apply for a job instead of studying for the exam again? ". She replied: " The major I studied is not suitable, and I don't like the job either ." So she had to give up four years of university to return to the " future path " that she loved when she was a student!
Every year, preparing to enter a new school year at university, how many candidates are saddened by the thought of " studying for their parents, taking exams for their parents, fulfilling their dreams and careers for their parents "?
It's not just the parents' fault! Which major to enroll in and which university to apply to is always a concern and worry during exam seasons for many candidates. Many people think that parents interfere too much in their children’s career choices, unintentionally becoming harsh parents who force their children to study majors they are not interested in, thus stifling their children’s dreams. But if parents are to be blamed once, the students must be blamed tenfold! It is true that there are many cases where parents are very “tense” in choosing a career for their children. Many parents want their children to study in fields where they can easily get a job through their connections, or so that they can later apply for a stable job in a government agency. After all, parents do this only because of their love for their children. What parent wants their child to suffer? It is true that loving the wrong way is harmful to children, but the students themselves, at the important threshold of life, how many have the courage to fight for their dreams. How many young people dare to admit that, even when preparing to apply for an exam, they are still confused about what they like. They are also worried that studying that major will make it difficult to find a job, and their family does not know anyone in the industry. For those of you who already have dreams, why not convince your parents that you are willing to take responsibility for your choices? Make sure that you will not depend on your family, and that you will find a decent job by all means. Or are you afraid that once you fight for your dreams, your family will forbid you from pursuing your dreams and not provide you with tuition? In fact, young people today are still too passive. Even when they are still in school, the one-way study and not daring to express their opinions have made young people accustomed to accepting and absorbing without complaining or arguing. This passivity is so ingrained in the blood that young people are full of doubts and hesitations even when making decisions about the future, without a stance, and easily succumbing to the persuasion of others. We often criticize the one-way education of schools, which does not promote students' autonomy and critical thinking; or the family's education, which tends to protect children. But young people themselves tend to accept, enjoy, receive preferential treatment, and are lazy to explore and create. So the story of choosing a major always makes us worry and ponder every exam season. |
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