▶ Your Answer :
In regards to atmosphere of a few countries forcing
young students to focus only on studying, there are a few reasons, such as a career-centred
environment and a competitive job market. To solve this issue, I believe school
education teaching young students to keep a balance between their private and
professional lives can be helpful. In addition, companies should also try to
make a working environment caring welfare of their workers. To begin with, the study-focused environment may be
caused by rapid industrialization followed by the competitive job market. This
means that people, nowadays, have to prove their capabilities in a certain way
to get a job, and an academic result is commonly used for this purpose. People
are not likely to survive in contemporary society without high academic
achievements. That is why young people are required to give up their leisure
time for their future careers. According to research conducted by Korea
University, the unemployment rate of young population in 2015 is twice higher
than that in 1900. The result shows how competitive our current society is,
therefore, young students are under pressure to achieve a good grade by giving
up extra activities. In order to solve the issue, education regarding the
importance of a balance between personal and official lives from school and
companies can be given. With the education, students can learn how they should
manage their study time, while they can enjoy extra time doing sports, music,
or other group activities. In addition, companies should try to offer the
working environment that respects their workers’ private lives instead of
career-centred environment. Thus, it is clear that young students and employees
would be able to aware the importance of leisure time for children, so that our
society can change.
In conclusion, in my opinion, our society forces young
people to study more and take rest less because of the competitive job market
created during rapid industrialization. School and company education focusing
on a balance in lives will help our society to change slightly toward better
study environment. |