Is the university still teaching and nurturing? It increasingly resembles training "unpaid workers".
Some universities today are not focused on education,
but rather operating a system of "free labor assembly line".
What volunteer hours, what practical credits, sound impressive,
but in reality, it's just making students work— the key is, no payment and no option to refuse.
Volunteer hours? Pure exploitation.
Many universities directly tie these to graduation requirements,
you must complete 20 hours or 30 hours in a year,
even if you're one minute short, you won't pass.
But what are these "volunteer" tasks?
Cleaning the streets, competing with sanitation workers for jobs;
standing at exhibitions for a day, even buying your own bottle of water;
and even more absurd—
cleaning in the library, washing dishes in the cafeteria, falsely labeled as "labor education".
To be realistic, hiring a part-time worker for a day costs at least 200 yuan,
but for students, the school just locks them in for 0.5 credits.
It couldn't be more exploitative.
As for internships, they have directly evolved into "selling people".
While the school shouts "gain experience", it sends batches of students to stand guard at assembly line factories.
Some stand for over ten hours a day,
want to take a leave? The teacher says: if you don't go, you won't get your diploma.
What's even worse is that some students quietly ask the factory:
they find out the factory pays the school 25 yuan an hour,
but students only get 19 yuan, who is pocketing the difference?
600 students, losing 6 yuan each hour,
daily working 8 hours for 3 months—
the school profits 2.6 million.
This isn’t education, it’s monetization.
Then there’s the issue of blood donation for credits—
200ml for 0.5 credits, 400ml for 1 credit,
and a bit of milk and bread as compensation.
Have you ever seen a blood donation vehicle parked outside an office building all year round?
No.
But outside the university, they are stationed year-round because it's "easy to harvest".
Last year, a student who was clearly fainting at the sight of blood still forced themselves to go,
afraid of missing the opportunity for credits, fainted directly at the blood donation vehicle;
there are also those who are ill but still try to squeeze in without telling the doctor.
Do you think this is education or exploitation?