Back to class, everyone learned the interview method and picked the simplest topic that everyone has something to say, childhood. We asked the teacher Linda what she was most impressed by when she was in elementary school: one day when she was just in school, the teacher had to go out during class, and told the children to stay still before leaving. As a result, as soon as the teacher left, some children clashed. After the teacher came back, Linda reported the situation to the teacher. In the afternoon, the teacher left Linda as punishment. My first reaction was puzzled: "Why?" I asked. In my opinion, does this count as unclear rewards and punishments? Why punish a good student who doesn't make trouble, and let the student who is tricking him go unpunished? Linda replied: "Because I betrayed the team." That's it! I thought of one layer, but didn't think of another layer. The teacher told the students not to make trouble, it was the rules she set, and she would execute the judgment, rewards and punishments. Children's small report violates another rule of the game: children must be united as one and not betray each other. Children are disobedient and have their own teachers to clean up, and their own parents to teach them. At least in theory, this should be the way the world works. In fact, when we were young, if a classmate kept making small reports with the teacher, they would be looked down upon by other classmates. It's just that at this time, you choose to put it in the hands of the teacher. Do you encourage students to do this kind of whistleblowing in order to expand their scope of understanding, and rely on information asymmetry to implement their own rule? Or do you simply kick the small report back and prevent the children from growing up into spies? asshole? gossip? When the weather is calm, such children are just spreading rumors. Once in a period like the Cultural Revolution, it will become a tragedy where neighbors, colleagues, and relatives expose each other and shoot each other black guns behind their backs. If this little story is enlarged and dramatized, it would be the movie "Scent of a Woman". Charlie, a middle school student, witnessed a prank in which the school coerced the student to confess his friend. Charlie did not want to betray his friend, but faced the threat of being repelled by the school. However, there are still many Americans who choose to sell. Frank, the retired military officer, said more pessimistically: Your friend George will tell you and behave like a canary. You too, Charlie, once you say, my child, you join the long, gloomy line of American adults (Your friend George's gonna sing like a canary. And so are you. And once you've sung, Charlie, my boy, you're gonna take your place on that long, gray line...of American manhood). I think Frank's worries and pessimism reflect the selflessness and wisdom of Linda elementary school teachers. In China, people who play cards according to the rules are turned into a laughing stock, all thinking about achieving their own needs through opportunistic methods. You say that this is a big environment or a small environment, maybe we can't change it, but if you choose a path, then you might as well resist it to the end, just like the Charlie in "Scent of a Woman". I can't change the world, but the world can't change me either.
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