Chapter 129: The Starting Line
In the evening, Jane and her mother sat on the couch in the living room and watched the Indian movie "The Starting Line". Jian Jian shook his head, and suddenly said with emotion: "The serious unfair distribution of educational resources!"
"Do you have a solution?" asked Jane's mother, looking sideways at her daughter, calmly.
Jian Jian unconsciously fell into the argument with his mother about the concept of education: "No. However, I think the crux of the problem is the lack of government funding for education. ”
Jane's mother chuckled, "I thought so when I was your age. Later, I changed this metaphysical view.
No matter how much the government invests in education, there will still be polarization in education. This is true not only of India, but also of the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, and any other developed country.
In addition to this, we are Chinese, Thai, Brazilian...... The same is true. There is no country in the world that does not have such a way of education. Even poor countries in Africa will let the middle and upper classes send their children to prestigious schools in Western developed countries without hesitation. ”
Jian Jian turned sideways towards her mother, and said in a spirit of sharing: "We should not concentrate the best teachers in prestigious schools, but should distribute them evenly among schools." In this way, children of any class have access to good teachers. ”
The concise mother "snapped" at her daughter's soft applause and smiled: "The concept is worthy of praise, but it is completely unrealistic." ”
"How unrealistic?" asked concisely and unconvinced.
"First of all, you should focus on people. This person is not only a teacher, but also a student. Secondly, there is human desire. Finally, there is humanity.
Let's talk about the first one first, teachers are also people, they also need to support their families, buy a car and a house, travel and vacation, etc., first to meet the basic survival needs of people, and then rely on their own skills, work hard, so as to live the ideal life in their minds, yes!
The problem is that there is also a mix of good and bad among teachers. Moreover, there are both people who work hard and people who live in chaos in any unit. There are people who are really talented and learned, and there are also related households who are not capable and come in through the back door. ”
She has the right to speak, after all, she is ranked NO.1 in the country, one of the famous primary schools in Beijing, and has been teaching for decades. I am also approaching the age of retirement.
However, the meaning of the school has already been clearly conveyed to her, and she will be rehired, and she still hopes that after she finishes teaching this term, she will teach for another six years.
It's hard to find a good teacher with rich teaching experience. Young teachers can't be counted on for a short time, after all, it is the school that needs time to train them.
Even if the school digs into the corners of other schools, it is not so easy to dig. What's more, the renamed schools still maintain a tacit understanding in private, and there is a "nuclear non-proliferation treaty", that is, they do not poach each other's backbone teachers.
If you want to dig it, you have to dig it in other schools. As a result, the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker. What excellent teacher in an ordinary school would not want to teach in a prestigious school?
On the one hand, it is the most direct increase in wages and benefits, and on the other hand, it is the honor brought by the golden signboard of the sharing school, just like the workers of good enterprises go on a blind date, they will deliberately wear work clothes.
In addition, it is also a kind of work that is recognized by authority, which will bring me a sense of accomplishment in work. Teach smart students, studious students, and students from good families......
This is more than teaching stupid students, students who are not good at learning, students from poor families, etc., which brings special enjoyment at work, and a convenient way to find relationships and people to solve problems in life.
The government's investment in prestigious schools will also be deliberately tilted and increased, and the students from these prestigious schools will not only give back to their alma mater in various ways, but also let their children follow their own successful path to copy.
Jane's mother smiled and said slowly: "The result of an excellent teacher and an ordinary teacher teaching in the same school is that both parties will be dissatisfied with the salary and benefits. It is impossible for a subject teacher to teach all the classes in his grade!
If they both receive similar salaries, the former will think that there is less, which will lead to the inability of schools to retain people, and they will move to educational tutoring institutions with more money.
If the wage gap is too wide, the latter will feel seriously unfair. They don't feel that their teaching skills are so bad that they only get a little money, they just put the blame on the unfair assessment.
In terms of students, those with good talent and those with poor talent also have similar problems as teachers. The former is perfectly capable of keeping up with the teaching progress of excellent teachers, while the latter is not.
On the contrary, the former thinks that ordinary teachers are slow in their teaching progress, which is simply a waste of time for grinding foreign workers, and it is easy for them to be distracted in class, while the latter keeps up.
Didn't you, as the head teacher of the first class of the second grade, tell me that Jia Qianqian has the talent of a genius, and this is the case. ”
She paused here and continued, "A student's home environment is also an important factor in their own development. It is understandable that children in ordinary schools are not sensible, after all, they are young.
However, even their parents have many people who have lived for dozens of years and are not sensible. Not only do they stupidly follow to make a fuss about reducing the burden, but there are also many people who believe in the uselessness of reading.
In the end, they are the second generation of poverty, so their children become the reserve army of the urban poor, which is the third generation of poverty. The poor third generation continues the working life of the poor generation of the grandparents and the poor second generation of the fathers.
As for the children who followed, they continued their working careers, poor for four generations, poor for five generations...... If you are rich for only three generations, it is a bit of a spectrum, and if you are poor for only three generations, you will have no spectrum.
If you want to change the poor fate of yourself and your family, either you can only be outstanding if there are genetic mutations in your descendants and superior intelligence, or you have Wei Xiaobao's peerless good luck.
You look at the famous Eton College in England, which has been established since 1440, almost 600 years ago. The students who enter the school do not have to study hard day and night.
Children from the lower middle class are congenitally deficient, and they do not enjoy high-quality educational resources the day after tomorrow. This will make the fool more stupid, and how different is it from the rich families in the feudal society in the past who controlled the collection of books and knowledge, and the policy of fooling the people?
Therefore, as educators, we can feel that the greatness of Confucius lies in the educational philosophy he proposed. Even in today's society, it is very advanced and not outdated at all. ”