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Youths face spirituality crisis
( China Daily)
Updated: 2010-03-22 09:04
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The spiritual void reflected in white-collar crimes should be a lesson to society to understand the true meaning of education, says an article on Rednet. Excerpts:
Four white-collar workers in their 20s went on trial in Beijing recently for offering IT assistance to porn websites. Society should feel ashamed for failing to guide the spiritually blank youths toward more productive endeavors.
The problem is that youths who have college diplomas and decent jobs both cannot find better outlets for their recreation, and hence are attracted to pornography, alcohol or even drugs without thinking about the harm their behavior would cause to them as well as society. The social environment of materialism and hedonism has made youths more interested in taking rather than giving whatever they can.
Feeding one's mind is more important in today's society than feeding one's stomach. Still, society and education can help rescue the present generation from being lost in the world of sex and sleaze. But for that to happen, students have to be taught not only how, but also why to get an education.
(China Daily 03/22/2010 page9)
