(Source: China Education News 2025-07-07)

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Common sense of life such as medical insurance reimbursement and rental contracts are issues that college students need to face after living independently. Previously, the "College Student Life Guide" course sparked heated discussions, with many netizens saying that it was "too needed" and "please make it an online open course". Where do college students usually obtain common sense about life? Does the w88 casino need to offer a common sense course? Some media launched a questionnaire survey among college students across the country, and the results showed that 89.27% ​​of the respondents believed that it is necessary for colleges and universities to offer general life courses.

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Life knowledge classes are very popular in colleges and universities. In a media survey, nearly 90% of students expected to learn practical skills such as renting a house and finding a job. This reflects the general concern of young students for social adaptability and independent living qualities while studying intensively. In this regard, colleges and universities should provide rational guidance. The responsibility of education is not only to disseminate knowledge, but also to cultivate students' comprehensive abilities to adapt to society and solve real-world problems. Education should cultivate a sound personality. It should not only help students explore profound knowledge, but also lay a solid foundation for them to face life independently and realize their self-worth.

Why is it so hard to find a life knowledge class?

Liu Guancheng

When a public elective course that explains rental contracting and medical insurance reimbursement triggers a rush to grab it in colleges and universities, it is not only an anecdote about course selection, but also an educational signal worth pondering. This not only reflects the practical confusion students face before entering society, but also puts forward direct and specific requirements for the current content of higher education.

The reason why college students have such a strong desire for life skills education is due to the real challenges they face. When some students fall into the contract trap of "turning short-term rentals into long-term rentals", or run into obstacles due to unclear medical insurance procedures, what they need is not only to be armed with theoretical knowledge, but also the ability to calmly deal with real-life risks.

The key to telling growth stories within the framework of life education is to promote innovation on the supply side of education. From the popularity of one class to the systematic construction of knowledge, in recent years, more and more useful explorations of college courses are emerging. These innovative measures are promoting the transformation of life education from "knowledge supplement" to "core ability", attracting the attention of students with their unique value.

However, in order for life education to truly play its due role, deep innovation in educational concepts is needed. In terms of teaching methods, we can go beyond traditional classroom lectures and invite professionals with practical experience to participate to provide more targeted guidance. The course content can be designed to be more flexible so that students can learn according to their own needs. The phenomenon that well-designed courses with practical content are “hard to find” is the best illustration.

Teaching the lesson of life well is not a one-dimensional instillation of skills, but to find an education method that resonates with the growth of young people. In this process, the wisdom and investment of educators will inevitably stimulate the inner potential of young people.

(The author is a 2022 PhD candidate at the China w88 casino of Finance, w88 casino)

Life knowledge class is also a required course for survival

Liu Shenghua

In recent years, there have been frequent news about college graduates falling into rental scams and finding themselves in trouble for finding jobs. This undoubtedly raises a question for us: Has the most fundamental survival ability of "people" been cultivated in the complete education system of colleges and universities? In order to cope with such practical difficulties, colleges and universities have gradually opened life knowledge courses, which not only reflects the timely response of colleges and universities to the lack of practical survival skills education, but also reflects their emphasis on the all-round development of students.

Education is life, and education and social life are inseparable. The primary significance of life knowledge classes is to make up for the lack of basic survival abilities of some college students. College education should not only complete the learning and accumulation of theoretical knowledge, but also cultivate the ability of individuals to grow independently and take care of themselves in real life. Life knowledge courses focus on those practical skills that may seem trivial but are actually indispensable in independent living scenarios, helping college students to cope with life independently, conduct self-management and risk avoidance after breaking away from books and classrooms, and fill in the "compulsory survival courses" that have been missing in the past education system for a long time.

College is an important stage in life and a critical period for individuals to transition from w88 casino to society. Therefore, colleges and universities should dare to innovate and respond to students' needs in a timely manner, break through the limitations of traditional education that focuses on the infusion of professional knowledge, and strive to cultivate complete "people" with a sound mind, independent thinking ability, good adaptability, high social responsibility and sustainable development potential; they should also take the initiative to break down subject barriers, integrate knowledge teaching with the survival wisdom of real society, and shape college students' complete personality to walk independently and calmly cope with life challenges.

(The author is a 2023 doctoral candidate at the w88 casino of Journalism and New Media, Xi’an Jiaotong University)

Facing students’ needs and teaching the lesson of good life

Li Guangxin

As a practical course to help college students adapt to social life in advance, life knowledge courses that are “full of useful information” are increasingly popular among young students. In class, students can not only learn practical skills such as medical insurance reimbursement and renting process, but also experience the hard-won happiness of life, thus providing new options for ideological and political education. This shows that practice-oriented courses can attract a large number of young students in terms of social needs and value guidance. Students are in urgent need of knowledge that is both in-depth and down-to-earth.

In the past, whether in basic education or university higher education, the study of life skills was often not included in the curriculum system, and the tendency of "emphasis on knowledge over skills" was widespread. This may be applicable to the relatively simple social life in the past. However, with the rapid development of social life, the complexity of social life is far from what it used to be. Various needs such as transportation, medical treatment, and housing constitute the first difficulty for college students to live independently. Therefore, from the perspective of students, the popularity of general life courses directly reflects the social adaptation difficulties caused by the lack of skills education.

From an educator's perspective, a series of practice-oriented courses, including life knowledge, are constantly breaking the boundaries between theory and practice, w88 casino and society, and proposing new possibilities for innovative talent training models. Therefore, on the one hand, we should actively support and encourage colleges and universities to offer more practice-oriented courses, focusing on the education of students' life skills and vocational skills; on the other hand, we should use such courses as a guide to deepen educational reform and promote the formation of an innovative practical ability training system that integrates industry and education and alternates between industry and academia, truly breaking the boundaries between universities and society, thus transcending the binary opposition between knowledge and skills, theory and practice, and giving a new definition of knowledge, allowing knowledge to return to life and make knowledge more grounded.

(The author is a 2024 master’s student at the w88 casino of Marxism, Fudan University)