Credit Crisis
The rocketing rise of tuition fees is becoming a hot topic in recent years and tragic stories about deprived students can be heard now and then. I admit there is something wrong with our educational system and our government should pour much more funds in the field of education. However, the following facts also need to be pondered further.
We have student loans to support those who cannot afford high tuition fees and banks seemed willing to provide such loans a few years ago. However, I heard now
fewer and fewer banks would like to provide this kind of loans because quite a lot of students (it is ashamed to mention the high percentage) have pretended forgetting to pay back their loans after graduation, some students even disappeared
... for our society has not established an efficient nationwide credit system and they just exploit an advantage of it.
We also have a traditional practice that if students agree to study some specialities and promise to serve in certain fields (trades) for number of years, or promise to go back to serve their hometowns in underdeveloped regions, then those
benefited enterprises and local governments will provide them full scholarships.
However, the result is the same that most of the students would break so easily
the agreements after they graduate and very few people have kept their words.
Another fact I’d like to mention is that we have a Fund of “Project of Hope”
which aims to support students in underdeveloped areas or poor families. I believe the first few batches of students who benefited from this project must be old
enough to payback the society since the Fund has been established over 15 years
, at least they should help others in the same way.
I heard a story illustrated so well of the thoughts of repaying kindness by kindness. It happened in the US. A stranger was driving alone along the country road
and his petrol was run out on the half way. He waited and waited till another car approached near and stopped in front of him and was surprisingly offered a can of gasoline. The stranger could not express his gratitude to the driver of that car. The driver then pointed the words at the bottom of the can: “Fill the can and help the next one who is in trouble” and said he was benefited this way when he was in trouble.
I am wondering if people got nothing in reward from their kindness will continue
do goodness in the future? Or is it those benefited people’s responsibility to
take over the torch to help others in order to turn the society on a virtuous cycle?
