「いい学生」の曖昧さ

その日記で学生の価値についてに話していきたいと思います。

この間、日本語を読む練習として大学生活についての記事を読みました。内容は教材のためにかくうに作られたかもしれませんが、主題はアルバイトを三つしていて、サークルに入って忙しい「橋本くん」です。

橋本くんは、忙しさのせいでよく遅刻したり、授業をさぼったりしてしまうと書かれています。もっともどうしても期末試験に受かるそうです。ある句、作家に「橋本くんがいい学生ですか」と聞かれています。全く直な質問ですけど、それを読むと「いい学生」の曖昧さを気づけました。

いい学生というのは、意味が二つあると思います。成功したいと言ってちゃんと勉強する気のある人がいい学生という基準の一方、実際にその程度に応える人だげがいい学生と認められる基準もあります。

記事の橋本くんはその一つ目の一種かもしれないけど、自分の意見を言えば「いい学生」と「成功者」は同意語です。期末試験の時に頑張るだけで、授業や教育の価値を大切するわけではありません。つまりその行動で大体良い成績を取れないし、将来の仕事で適当な性能程度を生めないし、橋本くんは試験に受かっても、大学教育を大切にしないで台無しにすることです。

橋本くんのように頑張っている人が負け者だと絶対言えないけど、基本的にいい学生だとも言えないと思います。

In this diary entry I want to talk about the value of a student.

Recently, as Japanese reading practice, I read an article about university student life. The content may have been made up for teaching purposes, but in any case the subject was the so-called "Hashimoto", a student with three part-time jobs and a club that all keep him busy.

Hashimoto often ends up late to class or skipping them altogether because of how busy he is. However, he always somehow manages to pass his final exams. In one passage, a question is posed by the author on whether Hashimoto is a good student. It's a completely straightforward question, but when I read it I realized how ambiguous a "good student" really is.

I think there are two meanings of a "good student". One one hand, you could say the criteria is simply wanting to succeed and having the desire to work hard. On the other, you might say only the people who actually live up to that standard in reality are good students.

Hashimoto from the article may be the first variety of student, but to give my own opinion, "good student" is synonymous with "successful person". Only ever working hard around exam time does not mean you're properly valuing your classes, education, etc. In other words, because he can't get good grades or expect to output a suitable level of performance at his future job given his behavior, even if Hashimoto passes his exams he's disrespecting and thereby spoiling his university education.

I would never say a hard-worker like Hashimoto is a loser, but I don't think you can fundamentally say he's a good student either.