In recent years, Indian films have become frequent visitors, and the "Starting Line" released this time is another Indian masterpiece.
The film uses a seemingly farce story of studying for a woman, showing the mental journey of the middle and upper classes to enter the upper class.
In the film, the male protagonist is engaged in the clothing business, from a small workshop to industrialization, winning a beautiful wife, having a lovely daughter, and embarking on the "peak of life" that men dream of.
They were rich, but not rich enough to buy the school, so they struggled to get their daughter into an Ivy League school.
During this period, the protagonist couple tried various means, including but not limited to queuing all night, practicing etiquette, attending interviews at famous schools, buying school district housing, learning "English", trying to squeeze into the circle of the powerful, and finally had to pretend to be poor, come In exchange for places for poor students in elite schools.
Everything they do is to make their children's education win at the starting line.
Poor parents all over the world, this sentence is old-fashioned and practical, and it applies to parents all over the world.
When parents in China see "Starting Line", it is estimated that they will resonate as much as India.
With the shortage of high-quality educational resources in China, even a kindergarten has to queue up all night, and choosing a primary school is almost a lifelong education plan.
A lot of news has also been released. In order to have the admission qualification of a famous school for his child, he did not hesitate to spend several times the price of the market to buy a school district room the size of a toilet.
Not to mention that for the child's education, when the child was still in the womb, he went to the United States to give birth, and then went to Hong Kong to give birth.
This reminds Da Cong of a previous joke (or truth):
A pair of young parents who graduated from Peking University and Tsinghua University asked the Zen master, "What should I do if I can't afford the school district housing for my children?!
The Zen master replied, "If you can't afford a school district housing even after graduating from Peking University and Tsinghua University, what's the point of school district housing?!"
Therefore, looking at the domestic education, it has reached a status quo that is as degenerate as "Starting Line".
Many people sighed at the actions of the parents in the film, but Da Cong wanted to question the rationality of the current allocation of educational resources, whether it has broken the hearts of parents, and even parents' educational ideas about their children have become obsessed.
Many parents in China today have received modern counseling education. For example, the Western parenting method is famous for letting children grow up happily and naturally, and even from the beginning of prenatal education, it is very Western-style. And young parents think they are doing a great job.
But when the children are really at the age of reading, they still have to attend the early education classes, and the interest classes cannot be left behind.
All in all, children cannot be allowed to lose at the starting line of life, even if parents know that life is actually a marathon.
In fact, this kind of education concept cycle is common not only in India and China, but also all over the world.
Take Singapore, for example, which ranks very high in the world in terms of education development, but in such a small city country, there are still Ivy League schools and regular schools.
In Singapore's school selection rules for famous schools and primary schools, the parents of children who are the first priority to choose are the alumni of the school, which is the so-called blood relationship of famous families.
The second option is for parents to volunteer for the school. Of course, the premise is that parents can squeeze their heads to volunteer for the school (there is hope for more than one year).
The third is to donate to the school, if you have the money, pay for it. The fourth is the school district housing (so this is one of the reasons why Singapore houses cannot be sold).
And often the good primary schools in Singapore have almost run out of places in the first screening of blood relationship. Isn't this way of screening students by famous schools very whale-eating? !
In European and American education, there are still many doubts. Their private schools are usually very good and expensive, but public schools basically have no threshold.
And in recent years, on education issues, there is a popular saying that what is provided to children is not an educational opportunity, but a network of contacts.
Just like Yale Harvard in the United States and Cambridge and Oxford in the United Kingdom, students from these famous schools will not be too bad in their basic life and career, after all, they are all in a so-called honorary network ecosystem.
In China, it is not uncommon. For example, in the film and television industry that everyone is most familiar with, almost all directors and actors were born in professional classes. They are either Beijing Film Chinese Opera or Chinese Opera. Of course, they are the best universities in the industry, but more importantly, Through these schools, students enter this circle and get to know the people in the circle.
Speaking of this, many people will take Baobao, Chunchun and others as examples. They are not from a professional school, but they are also successful. Therefore, what Da Cong said is only a common phenomenon, and a few examples can only be another matter.
Therefore, to look at the educational concept of "Starting Line" in terms of network circles, let the children grow up with the golden key to the precious education hall. Parents do this to let the children integrate into the so-called upper class society as soon as possible.
Is it ironic? !
We always hate the connections of the powerful and despise the extremely wealthy class, but we always want to bet our life savings on the education of our children, so that our children can one day enter the top of the pyramid of human dignity.
Just like the male protagonist in "Starting Line" said: "Education has lost its essence, and now education is a business."
In fact, education has been a business for a long time, but this business is getting bigger and bigger, blurring education and education itself, and then gradually expanding to elementary schools, kindergartens, early education classes, interest classes, cram schools and so on.
But do you think this kind of education really allows children to win at the starting line? !
Let's take a look at education in Germany. As long as one of the husband and wife resigns and takes care of the child at home, the government will pay the family high subsidies and give the family a tax cut, in order to give parents more time to take care of and educate their children.
In Germany's constitution, it is clearly stated that there can be no "pre-school education", and the premature development of children's intelligence is prohibited by law.
Kindergartens in Germany have no grades. Children in our so-called large, medium and small classes are all in the same class.
Because they think that before a child's intelligence is fully developed, exposing him to technical education too early will solidify the brain and leave no room for imagination.
That is to say, the German education method is to deliberately let children "lose at the starting line", and return the real choice to the children, and let them decide for themselves in the future.
The real enlightenment education is undertaken by parents, because parents are the best teachers for children.
By the way, half of all Nobel Prize winners so far are of German origin.
Of course, Da Cong is not advocating any kind of education here, but wants everyone to see more education methods and concepts. In fact, education, like chasing girls, has multiple levels and methods.
And we want to instill elite knowledge education in children, or let children integrate into the upper circles as soon as possible and go to famous schools, these are just one or two of the various education methods.
Also, don't think that getting your kids a good education is the first step towards becoming extremely wealthy and powerful, no kidding.
A long time ago, Da Cong read an article about the difference of class education. In the article, the education of different classes was divided into categories.
First of all, people almost have to receive mass education and can integrate into society normally.
The education of the middle class is skill-based education, that is, acquiring a handicraft that can play a role in social development.
The education of the elites is management innovation education, exercise the social keen thinking ability and manipulative power, such as the training of CEO, CFO, COO.
And the very rich and powerful, that is, the rich people who account for 0.1% of the world's population, what kind of education do their children receive? !
The answer is that they are not guided by modern education. Their so-called education is to implant a concept into children for a long time, just like the concept of entering people's dreams in "Inception".
Their education is often subtle, and this kind of education will guide children how to think about the allocation of human resources, how to control and operate these resources, and even how to influence the future of mankind.
In other words, 99% of the education we receive is from 1 to infinity, while the education of the rich and powerful is from 0 to 1.
Seeing this, many people will say that this so-called rich and powerful educational philosophy, we can also learn it.
Da Cong believes that we really can’t learn this kind of thing. For example, you don’t have a wealthy group, you don’t have huge global wealth, or you don’t have royal blood, even if you let your children accept these educational concepts , In the end, it can only be a matter of fact on paper.
Da Cong said so many digressions about education, not advocating or belittling any of them. After all, children belong to their parents, and the education plan of each family will not be changed by a movie or an article, right? ?
So many times, what suits you is the most important thing. Effort is important, but it must be rational rather than blind. This is also an important truth that "Starting Line" tells us.
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