In any era, the rich need to put a label on themselves in order to maintain their position in society, neither out of this circle nor let others break into this circle.
Therefore, the rich always have to use a kind of relaxation that the poor cannot achieve to flaunt their identity, such as the fact that they used to wear noble jewelry and carry various luxury goods. Once, women's Chanel, Hermès, Christian Louboutin red-soled shoes, men's Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, all expressed the same meaning, I am rich.
In those places where you can't see, let's say education. Among the top 1 percent, education accounts for 6 percent of annual household income. General middle-class education expenditure accounts for 1% of a family's annual income.
Luxury goods can no longer make them feel safe, so they stop the conspicuous consumption behavior that the ordinary middle class has gradually joined, and instead build a solid barrier around themselves and the next generation through the construction of cultural capital, completely isolating them from others.
Huang Lei's daughter Huang Duoduo speaks pure English
Huayi brothers boss Wang Zhonglei's son William's younger brother
The english level is called special eight.
Huang Lei's daughter attends a private Huijia school in Beijing
Wang Zhonglei's son attends Dulwich College Beijing
It is said that both of Faye Wong's daughters attended the school.
There is also the daughter of Ma Yili, the daughter of Lu Yi,
Deng Chao's son is studying at Shanghai Soong Ching Ling International Kindergarten.
Public schools are also international schools
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Children's homework is heavy, so they learn more knowledge; school rules are strict, and the children cultivated are disciplined, understand the rules, and are easy to be accepted by the group; the depth of learning is difficult, so the children's thinking ability is strong; Chinese-style education will help children understand Chinese culture better, and it will be easier to develop in China in the future.
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Children's homework is relaxed, there is a lot of time to do extracurricular activities; the school respects the free personality of students, and cultivates children who are very confident, creative and imaginative; the English international environment, the child's English becomes the second mother tongue; the foreign education system can help children to enter and adapt to famous universities abroad in the future.
The difference between domestic key schools and international schools
What are the key domestic schools and international schools teaching? What kind (or difference) of students are being trained?
In fact, traditional Chinese education can basically be called a mental challenge, a physical challenge, or a human challenge (there are individual teachers who constantly deny and insult children who are disobedient, not smart enough, and not fit in). And the destruction and torture of these ten years is not to instill a bunch of "knowledge" that you have forgotten after the exam, but to cultivate a particularly important survival ability - "to be able to endure hardships".
I think that people who "can endure hardships" are the most able to survive in the face of adversity. People who "can endure hardships" can endure the torment, torture and destruction of brain, physical strength and human nature in order to survive. To survive in adversity, you need to be obedient, vague personality, herd spirit, and endure humiliation and burden. And isn't survival the most basic factor for success? If you can't survive, how can you succeed?
Because of my strong heart, when I encountered several great adversities, I could use my firm perseverance to endure, not to fall, and bravely get up and continue.
So why do the most successful top billionaires send their children to international schools?
Aren't Ma Yun, Yu Feng, Wang Zhongjun, etc. all hard studying under the traditional domestic education system? Why do they send their children to international schools? Don't they want to replicate their success?
The answer is that their children no longer need the ability to "endure hardships." Most of them have prepared enough wealth for the children, and even made long-term arrangements for the children and grandchildren to ensure that the children do not need to fight for "survival". Since there is no longer a question of "survival", "being able to endure hardship" is no longer a necessary ability.
When you ask a rich wife, why send her children to an international school?
Most of the answers are, want your children to be happy.
Most of the rich want their children to be happy, have an independent personality, be creative, have self-confidence, live in an upper circle, and pass on the wealth and status of the family from generation to generation.
What are the requirements for entering an international school
First, the child must be a foreign national. Of course, the children of the top richest people now basically have foreign nationality.
Second, you have to apply in advance. Because international schools are all small class sizes, the number of students enrolled each year is limited, and the ratio of teachers and students cannot be changed. So some rich wives are too much, just pregnant, already go to the top international schools to register in line.
Third, your child must meet the requirements of an international school: sunny, friendly, confident, and highly emotionally intelligent. International school admissions must be interviewed, even if you can memorize 300 Tang poems at the age of 5, the arithmetic function is useless. If you can't play, can't make friends, is not educated, is not confident, and your parents are not there, you will not be overwhelmed.
Fourth, spell parents. Although the tuition and miscellaneous fees of international schools are hundreds of thousands of yuan a year, parents only have money, do not. They strictly require interviewing parents, hoping that parents are also people with knowledge, status, taste, and education.
The children of Hong Kong's rich people, Li Ka-shing's grandchildren, the sons and grandchildren of Bank of East Asia Lee Kwok-po, the grandchildren of Henderson Group Lee Shau Kee, Li Ka-hin, and Chan Wai Lam's children have not chosen public traditional education, sending their children to the top international schools in Hong Kong.
Because they know that their efforts have created good conditions for children, at the very least, their offspring will no longer face the challenge of "survival". What they need is to survive above the skills.
Of course, if you think your child is likely to experience "survival" challenges in his lifetime, you'd better send him to a public school to exercise his ability to "endure hardships." In case of adversity, survival is the most important thing after all.
Children with a good international education, without exception, have two characteristics:
First, be well-bred and courteous.
Second, no one pursues luxuries excessively, but spends a lot of energy to become a bully academically.
Bill Gates dropped out of college at the age of 20 and became the richest man in the world at the age of 39; Zuckerberg also followed the example of his predecessors, dropping out of Harvard, and both of them read half of the book, not that they couldn't keep up, but that they couldn't wait. What these cattle people learn at famous schools is one of the resources, that is, the connections that Chinese collectively known. The Ivy League and some private elite schools have alumni clubs; the second is independence of thought.
Entering the Ivy League means the starting point for entering the elite class, which has a low admission rate, expensive tuition fees, and great academic pressure. In the Ivy League, it is a group of the most talented guys in the world, doing research in an untethered atmosphere, looking up at the stars to think about the future, thinking about the question: I guess, it is certainly not a question of how much house prices in the three rings will rise.
The same is the difference between the rich, the rich and the elite, not in whose house is big, whose car is good, who has more assets, but in the education of future generations.
For the sake of children's education, it is time to make a long-term plan.