The established idea about high school students is that they should enter universities or colleges after they have finished high school study. But in these years the number of students who go to travel or work increases at a fast speed, attracting attention to study.
Either to travel or to do a job, part time or full time, helps students to grow in a happy and healthy way. To work usually means to earn a sum of money which a student uses to buy whatever delights him or her. Besides, the sum of money has deep sense to a student because he or she feels that he has grown up enough to help parents release pressure. My own experience in a factory in the summer holiday in 1996 severs as a good example. I earned totally $92.75 RMB that summer, almost half of my total year tuition.
To travel is also positive to students who have been kept in classrooms for long. When one travels, he or she learns more in a different way unavailable in classroom. My English professor once said that a person learns more in a hundred-mile travel than reading ten thousand books. In fact, a travel is a complex process, in which one learns to make stranger acquaintance, acquaintance friends, and friends brothers and sisters. In traveling, not only can the traveler learn more about the geography, biology, and culture but also the deep means of life.
Clearly, to travel and to work both are helpful to the high school leavers.
