There is a glaring sentence in "My Life at the Bottom": "Poverty itself is a kind of tyranny." ”

In this book, the author, Ms. Barbara, proposes how a low-level worker can cross this hurdle and leave the bottom and enter the lower, as long as it meets three standards, which in the author's view, more than 90 percent of Chinese can do, but American low-level workers just can't do it.

First, high school graduation; second, have a full-time job; Third, have children after getting married.

On these three requirements, the failure rate is 99.99 percent, that is to say, it is basically impossible to cross, one of the reasons is the influence of the environment and education, the bottom students in the United States, that is not a duck egg in the exam, but directly forget the exam.

Although I don't want to admit it, I have to say that one of the functions of education is to consolidate the class, which is not what education originally wanted, but a nature that is unintentionally carried by development in the process.

For example, Harvard University, which is an Ivy League university, is the world's top university, in fact, it is essentially for educational stratification.

Take Harvard University as an example, what does Harvard do, it turns out that the purebred Anglo-Saxons in the early United States existed in order to raise their own children, and it was established as a church university at the beginning, but then it became sour.

Of course, universities did not dare to write it out in explicit, universities used the threshold of "admission" to select the children of the elite class to enroll, and during the First World War, after the entry threshold was lowered, the Jewish enrollment rate soared from single digits to 23 percent, you can say that this is a kind of discrimination, but this discrimination itself is a manifestation of class.

Now the situation is better, there is more mobility, and the excellent children of the non-elite class can get a chance to enter the upper class through universities like Harvard, which is a kind of innovation after the First World War, which promotes class mobility, ensures that the elite is absorbed into the upper class as much as possible, and the ultimate goal is to stabilize the class.

Until now, Harvard University and other Ivy League schools still have no "admission standards", and all the conditions we know about sports, social practice, etc., are references, not standards.

Harvard University is notoriously unfair in the United States, and there is a special website in the United States called "Harvard Unfairness", where you can see many examples of students who have excellent grades in all aspects, but have been rejected by Harvard University.

A veteran cadre who has been in the position of "director of admissions" at Harvard University for 30 years, and after retiring from college, he started college counseling, and he made it clear that he has worked at Harvard University for 30 years, but he does not know what Harvard's admissions standards are.

As for Harvard University's so-called "special recruitment" standards, in fact, they are all for children of the upper class.

For example, those who have sports specialties can make special moves, and the sports specialties here are not running, basketball, football, and other popular sports, but high-end sports such as fencing, shooting, and golf.

Or maybe your parents are graduates of Ivy League schools, "one generation of Ivy League schools, one generation of Ivy League schools" is what it says, your father is from Harvard, and it will be much easier for you to enter Harvard.

One of the most well-known is donations, and the more a group donates to a university, the more schools will be willing to admit your child.

Obviously, all of this is a path for the rich, and that's the reality.

The education stratification in the United States is very serious, and most of the children at the bottom cannot get a diploma because they have forgotten their exams, and not all of them can receive a good education as we think.

There is an education system in the United States called KIPP, which is a more terrible education than China's exam-oriented education, which can be called militarized management, the school even has regulations on the posture of students going to the toilet, at the beginning all students sit on the floor, only if you have good grades, you will be given a table and a chair, this kind of education is facing the children at the bottom, and the advantage of this education is that the children who are educated can get rid of the bottom life.

The education method of the middle class is the "quality education" that our Chinese people are enthusiastic about, and quality education cultivates children's strengths, independent thinking ability, expression ability, social ability, and organizational ability, which is the way the American middle class cultivates children.

Of course, this is not the highest level, because "quality education" can only cultivate handicrafts, handicrafts can be mass-produced, the core of this education method is not to make children better, but to let children be better selected.

The education method of the top elite is to select people, they want to cultivate artworks, there is only one core of education in this class, that is, decision-making ability, the children of this class have been instilled from an early age is to "change the world", living is to change the world, they only need decision-making ability.

So from the moment they go to school, all the decisions made by these children are made by themselves, whether to go to school today, whether to fall in love, whether to repeat a grade or skip a grade...... No one will interfere with you, you decide for yourself, because that's the cultivation of decisions, it's the decisions of your life, and you're in control.

This kind of education is not something that can be imitated by middle and lower class education, because when it comes to elite education at the top, the school is just the most basic environment, and the biggest role is the family itself, so don't ask the children to make their own decisions, whether they will never go to class, this question is not a problem at all.

This is the United States, this is the stratification of education, which is the end state that can be seen now.

Now China is moving towards this stratification, according to statistics, it is becoming more and more difficult for rural children to be admitted to prestigious schools such as Tsinghua University and Peking University, and it is becoming more and more difficult for the grassroots to get ahead.

The world's top 500 companies say that they don't pay attention to academic qualifications in recruitment, but they never go to a school like China Normal University to hold a job fair, and you can only see them at Peking University and Tsinghua University.

This is called "not paying attention to academic qualifications".

After listening to Chen Kan's analysis, Weng Xiupin and Chen Mei let out a long sigh, even if they knew, what could they do?

But Chen Kan's own face doesn't matter, what should be done or what, not to mention that the word "child" is too far away from Chen Kan, or even impossible things, as for what is unfair and the like, Chen Kan has witnessed too much in the five thousand years.

Chen Kan's performance, isn't this a state of mind!

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