reluctant to seek help even when they desperately need it.
Just as colleges are sometimes ill equipped to respond to the challenges being posed by today’s students, students themselves are sometimes ill equipped to respond to the challenges posed by college life.Although they arrive on campus with high expectations, some students struggle with shyness or perfectionism, learning disabilities or eating disorders. Still others experience failed relationships;some suffer from acute loneliness, or mental illness.
Unfortunately, higher education is sometimes more of an information delivery system than a responsive, collaborative (合作的) process.We have created cities of youth in which students can pass through unnoticed,their voices rarely heard, and their faces rarely seen.As class size grows in response to budget cuts, it becomes even less likely that troubled students, or even severely disturbed,will be noticed.When they are not, the results can be tragic.
As a teacher of creative writing who has worked with many overwhelmed students, I have found that there are ways to communicate more effectively.Most students have stories they want to share, and students in trouble can be less desperate to find someone who will listen to them.Parents,as their children’s primary listeners,have a key role to play.Some young people are unable to find their own way out of the dark, and a meaningful dialogue can become a light for them to see by.That is not to say that writing can be used to identify mental illness; rather, I think some of the approaches writing teachers use to enter into a reflective dialogue with students can be adopted by parents and students who want to learn more about each other.Having witnessed what can happen when a student communicates with himself, I believe this kind of responsive, oneonone communication is more important than ever.Students in creative writing classes may have no idea that they have revealed so much about themselves because, for them, writing is like speaking inside the pages of a journal. In fact, all of us who write reveal more than we imagine.This is one of the reasons why writing, even more than speaking, can provide us with important insights into ourselves and others.Many of us don’t know our students as well as we should, yet it can be easier than we imagine to begin these necessary dialogues.
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