There is a very dazzling saying in "My Lower Life": "Poverty itself is an autocracy."

In this book, the author Ms. Barbara proposed a way for the lower-level workers to overcome this hurdle and leave the lower level and enter the lower level. As long as three standards are met, in the author's opinion, more than 90% of Chinese people can do this standard, but the lower-level workers in the United States cannot do it.

First, graduate from high school; second, have a full-time job; third, have a baby after getting married.

With these three requirements, the failure rate is 99.99%, which means that it is basically impossible to overcome it. One of the reasons is that the environment and education impacts, American students are not just taking the exam, but forgetting the exam directly.

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

For example, Harvard University and other Ivy League universities are all world's top universities, and in fact they are essentially for educational stratification.

Taking Harvard University as an example, what does Harvard do? It turns out that the purebred Anglo-Saxons in the early United States existed to raise their own children. It was established in the beginning and was a church university, but it changed later.

Of course, universities dare not write it out clearly. Universities use the threshold of "admission" to select children from the elite class to enroll. During the first battle, after the admission threshold was lowered, the enrollment rate of Jews soared from single digits to 23%. You can say that this is a kind of discrimination, but this discrimination itself is a manifestation of the class.

The situation is getting better now, with more mobility. Excellent children from non-elite classes can get an opportunity to enter the upper class through universities like Harvard. This is an innovation after World War I, promoting class mobility, ensuring that all the elites are absorbed to the upper class as much as possible, and the ultimate goal is to stabilize the class.

Until now, there are still no "entry standards" for the famous Ivy League schools at Harvard University. All the conditions we know about sports, social practice, etc. are references, not standards.

Harvard University is famous for being unfair in the United States. There is a special website in the United States called "Harvard Unfair". In it, you can see many examples of students with excellent grades but are rejected by Harvard University.

An old cadre who had been in the position of "Director of the Admissions Office" of Harvard University for 30 years started to consult college after retirement. He made it clear that he had worked at Harvard University for 30 years, but he didn't know what Harvard's admission standards were.

As for the so-called "special recruitment" standards at Harvard University, they are actually prepared for children in the upper class.

For example, those with sports expertise can be specially designed. The sports expertise here is not mass sports such as running, basketball, and football, but high-end sports such as fencing, shooting, golf. The unified feature of these sports is that it is very expensive and it is impossible to cultivate without a few million.

Or maybe your parents are graduates of Ivy League schools. "One generation of Ivy League schools, generation of Ivy League schools" are talking about this. Your dad is from Harvard, so it will be much easier for you to enter Harvard.

The most well-known one is donation. The more a group donates to universities, the more willing the school will be to recruit your children.

It is obvious that all these are ways for rich people, and that's so realistic.

Educational stratification in the United States is very serious. Most children at the bottom cannot get a graduation certificate because they have forgotten the exams, and not everything we think can receive a good education.

There is an education system in the United States called KIPP, which is an education that is even more terrifying than China's exam-oriented education. It can be called a 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, and only if you have good grades will you give you a table and chair. This kind of education faces the children at the bottom. The advantage of this kind of education is that the children educated can get rid of the life at the bottom.

The middle class's education method is the "quality education" that our Chinese people reiterate. Quality education cultivates children's strengths, independent thinking ability, expression ability, social ability, and organizational ability. This is the way the American middle class cultivates children.

Of course, this is not the most advanced, because what is cultivated by "quality education" can only be crafts, which can be mass-produced. The core of this educational method is not to make children better, but to make children better selected.

The top elites’ education method is to select people and cultivate works of art. There is only one core education in this class, that is, decision-making ability. Children in this class are instilled with "changing the world" since childhood. Living is to change the world. They only need decision-making ability.

So from the moment you go to school, all the decisions of these children are made by themselves. Whether to go to school today, whether to fall in love, whether to stop or skip grades... No one will interfere with you, you decide for yourself, because this is the cultivation of decision-making, this is your life decision, you control it yourself.

This kind of education method cannot be imitated by middle and lower education, because at the top level, 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, and if they will never attend classes. This question is not a problem at all.

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

China is now moving towards this stratification. According to statistics, it is becoming increasingly difficult for rural children to get into prestigious schools such as Tsinghua and Peking University, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for grassroots to make a name for themselves. The so-called useless theory of studying is actually a preliminary manifestation of social stratification.

In the world or the top 500 companies in China, they all say that they do not pay attention to academic qualifications when recruiting, but they never attend job fairs in schools like Central Normal University. You can only see them at Peking University and Tsinghua University.

This is what is called "not paying attention to education".

After listening to Chen Kan's analysis, Weng Xiupin and Chen Mei sighed long. Even if they know, what can they do?

However, Chen Kan looked indifferent, and he should do whatever he should do. Not to mention that the other words "child" are too far away from Chen Kan, or even impossible. As for things like unfairness, Chen Kan has witnessed too many times over the past five thousand years.

Chen Kan's performance is also a kind of mentality!
Chapter completed!