Recently, the School of Chemistry at Liaoning University released a set of detailed rules regarding scholarship evaluation, which mentioned that “those who are absent from snow shoveling more than 30% of the time in winter will be disqualified from the scholarship review.” This regulation has sparked heated discussion among students. Some students believe that linking snow shoveling to scholarships is a covert way of pressuring students, while faculty members stated that snow shoveling is a labor skill that graduate students should possess. “Not completing the labor education that a graduate student should have is unacceptable. If you lack even the most basic (labor) skills, how can you be considered for a scholarship?” But is the college really issuing this regulation solely to cultivate the labor skills of graduate students? An instructor from the college revealed the truth, calling the regulation an “act of helplessness”: “In the past, we didn’t tie it to scholarships. Whoever is honest and obedient would go shovel snow. Some students think they can skip it, so they do.” They also claimed it was to motivate students to shovel snow. From this, it is clear that the real reason the school’s officialdom issued this snow shoveling regulation is not because they are concerned about the students’ labor skills, but because the school’s past lax management allowed bourgeois professors to find it hard to find enough people to do menial work for them. Therefore, they are tightening control to prevent those unwilling to serve as slaves from losing their scholarships. Officially, they claim it is for “the students’ benefit,” but in reality, it is just to ensure they can comfortably stay in the classroom and enjoy themselves—this is their true purpose. Some netizens sarcastically pointed out that linking snow shoveling to scholarships but not to professional title evaluations is unfair and unequal. If the college’s stated purpose of “labor education” were genuine, teachers and staff would have led by example and shoveled snow themselves long ago. Moreover, this situation is not unique in the middle-class society; the entire education system is filled with bourgeois hypocrisy. Although it publicly promotes the idea of “comprehensive development in morality, intelligence, physical education, aesthetics, and labor,” in practice, it only emphasizes “intellectual education,” neglecting other abilities. The Minister of Education has also admitted that among the “Five Educations”—moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor—sports, aesthetic education, and labor education are considered weak points. Under their influence, students become morally selfish and self-interested, using their knowledge as capital to exploit others; physically weak, suffering from chronic illnesses such as cervical spondylosis, myopia, obesity, etc.; aesthetically, they accept bourgeois aesthetic standards, viewing diligent workers as ugly and bourgeois exploiters as beautiful; practically, they despise labor, adhering to the reactionary logic that “reading is the only noble pursuit.” These teachers, so-called representatives of the bourgeoisie, relentlessly indoctrinate students with erroneous, reactionary, and decayed ideas, attempting to lead them astray and turn them into loyal servants of the bourgeoisie. They beat or scold students, or use various means to undermine their confidence and self-esteem, forcing students to do things they are not obligated to do, so that these students, upon entering society and facing capitalist exploitation and oppression, will remain silent and obedient. But they also fear that exposing their true intentions will provoke angry resistance from the people, threatening their rule, so they resort to all kinds of means to maintain a facade and cloak themselves in the guise of “supporting quality education and comprehensive development.” In this way, they believe their rule is secure, and students will obediently serve as good slaves, paving the way for a “happy life.” But they are overestimating themselves. Although students have parasitic tendencies and various shortcomings, they are ultimately capable of transformation and share a common resentment toward the old society’s rulers and their oppression. Their current protests may seem weak and immature, and some methods are even completely wrong, but among China’s 1.4 billion people, nearly 300 million are students. If there were a Marxist political party and a vanguard to lead correctly, the scattered protests of students could ignite a blazing fire, burning away the old educational system of bourgeois academia. Then, students could truly gain their own dignity and escape the fate of oppression and slavery by teachers and professors in the old society. 辽宁大学一学院将扫雪和奖学金挂钩？学院工作人员：鼓励学生锻炼劳动能力 _光明网