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Our Chinese children have heard a saying from their parents since they were young that "only after studying hard can they make a lot Xi of money", and the dream of many students is to get into a good university like Tsinghua University and Peking University when they grow up, and then find a good job and make a lot of money.
Whenever they hear their children say this, their hearts will bloom with joy, thinking that their children are ambitious and will become great in the future.
But as long as a child studies well Xi will he be able to achieve impressive results? As long as he studies well, will he be able to find a decent job and make a lot of money?
Obviously, this is not the case. Wanting to achieve good results is not something that can be successfully achieved by individual efforts alone, and there are often many reasons behind a result, which are formed by multiple forces.
There are many people who say that in the absence of a variety of objective conditions, the more they work, the more sad they become, and many people attribute this unsatisfactory result to their own lack of hard work, is this really the case?
Peking University professor Dai Jinhua told the truth about Xi
Dai Jinhua, a professor of Chinese at Peking University, understands most of the same efforts, she believes that we should not blindly compare with other people's lives, because everyone's "initial setting" at birth is different, and there are always some gaps set by God in advance, which are difficult to cross no matter what, so when our lives are not as smooth as others, we don't have to be too ourselves.
Professor Dai Jinhua bluntly said that when we see the rich, we always like to use words such as "self-discipline and taste" to modify their lives, and when we see the poor, many people will subconsciously blurt out "lazy" to describe them.
At that time, because many rich people would choose to Xi a new technology after work to invest in themselves, and many low-income poor people would choose to lie on the sofa after work to brush their mobile phones and play games, sleeping in their spare time was more beneficial to their own development.
However, we should not only look at the surface, but also understand the whole picture of these two strata before making a decision. There is a huge difference between the two ways of working, with the poor selling their physical strength for money, and the rich selling their intellect for gain.
The level of human intelligence can be infinitely improved in infinite exercise, just like the saying goes, "the more you use your brain, the brighter you are", but for the poor who sell their sweat, work is a kind of consumption for them.
Human physical strength is limited, and some manual workers may be able to improve their physical mobility in permanent and stable regular work, but not all manual workers can go this far.
There are not a few people who are crushed by heavy work, some people have been working in dusty workshops for a long time, and some workers have been injured by flying bricks while working on the construction site, and have been forced to suffer from diseases for the rest of their lives.
What's more, working in a dangerous coal mine, the coal mine suddenly collapsed and was buried in the mine, and a living life was finally turned into a few red bills.
For high-income people who don't test their physical strength, work may not be a burden for them, or even more relaxed in the eyes of most people, so they still have energy to use for self-improvement courses at the end of the eight-hour workday.
But for the poor, daytime work is already the limit of their physical fitness, and they naturally only want to do some easier things after work, such as lying in bed and watching videos without nutrition, watching the lives of the rich in short videos, and having sweet dreams in a life of poverty.
The difference between the rich and the poor in their treatment of the eight hours of spare time is not something that can be distinguished between industriousness and laziness, and if there is a choice, who wants to be exhausted from daily work?
The poor also don't want to let work drain all their energy, but because they lack the right to choose, they have to endure these tribulations from life.
The poor have no decent education, no superior skills, and some are only what most people have—health, so the poor have to embark on a difficult road, exchanging health for money when they are young, and money for health when they are old and weak, for them, the balance of life is always tilted, so it seems that they will lose the other, but what is the root of all this? It is a balance that is unfair from the birth of every human being.
Professor Dai was one of the first batch of college students when the college entrance examination was first resumed in the year of reform and opening up, and it was very difficult to get into university at that time.
According to relevant statistics, in 1978, the rate of passing in the college entrance examination was about 1 in 500, which means that only one out of 500 people can successfully enter the university campus.
Even though the college entrance examination was so difficult at that time, almost half of Professor Dai's classmates were still from the poor class. On the other hand, in the current college entrance examination, although the exam questions are simpler than before, the proportion of "proud sons of the sky" from poor families seems to be getting smaller and smaller.
Is it the poor who are getting stupid, or the rich who are getting smarter?
“寒门”真的再难出“贵子”吗？
In fact, this is due to the influence of the tide of the times. In the 70s and 80s of the 20th century, when Professor Dai lived, the difference between the rich and the poor was not very large.
Therefore, according to the proportion of the rich and poor population that is very different between the rich and the poor, there is a decisive advantage in the proportion of people with relatively low incomes, so it is natural that there will be a large number of "poor and noble children" with the imprint of the times.
On the other hand, today, with the continuous advancement of the mainland's poverty alleviation strategy, with the support of the motherland's policies, most of those people with meager incomes in the eighties and nineties of the 20 th century have been lifted out of poverty, and the proportion of the poor is smaller, and the number of poor talents who can stand out will naturally decrease sharply.
This does not mean that it is really difficult for a poor family to have a noble son, most people born at the bottom still have many opportunities to change their lives against the sky, and if they want to become a better self, they are far more than just the college entrance examination.
Of course, when the poor get richer, the rich naturally become richer. This creates a new round of injustice, where the poor enjoy the scarcest educational resources, while the rich enjoy the best quality teachers, in fact, education is both a competition and an investment.
Assuming that the children of the poor and the rich have similar IQs, it must be more meditative for the one who smashes more resources and money into the reapable gains.
As a result, the mainland's education sector is not as fair as it was in the last century, when the gap between the rich and the poor was not large.
The congenital uneven distribution of educational resources will inevitably lead to different starting lines for everyone. For example, candidates in Beijing or Tianjin can get on the national line with a little effort, while candidates in large provinces and cities such as Henan and Shandong have to put in more effort than local students, and it is a few points higher to realize their dream of going out of the province.
For children born in populous provinces, there is no such thing as mediocrity, and if they are not good enough to stand out, they will only end up with a result that will be repeated by future generations.
Professor Dai Jinhua admits that the more intelligent students are, the more likely they are to feel pain, because they are often able to see through the unequal distribution of educational resources through the current situation earlier, and see their limitations too early at the age when it is time to struggle, so that they become depressed and have no intention of struggling again.
How can we maintain peace of mind in the current situation of educational inequality?
In the field of classical Chinese philosophy, there is a view that people's cognition of society usually goes through three stages, namely, "looking at the mountain is a mountain, looking at the mountain is not a mountain, and looking at the mountain is still a mountain." ”
If you want to form a correct cognition, you first need to overturn your original cognition, form a new and completely different cognitive viewpoint, and finally take your own viewpoint and go through thousands of sails to suddenly find that it coincides with your original cognition.
In the field of education to promote personal growth, that is to say, when we are dissatisfied with our current life, we will naturally have the desire to struggle, and when we really have the behavior of struggle, we will find that everyone is working the same hard but may not be able to achieve the same result, and there are always people who can easily live better than us without struggle.
At this time, we often feel that the previous efforts seem to be a kind of mispayment, that is, the realm of "seeing the mountain is not the mountain" as the sages said.
However, if we can only focus on our own development and continue to create value in the field we want to improve, one day, we will suddenly find that our confusion and helplessness have disappeared, and we will return to the realm of "seeing mountains as mountains" again, and walk from the dissatisfaction of self-denial to the great perfection of life.
When we recognize that our lives are not comparable to those of others, we are halfway there. Each of us has our own limitations, even if it seems to outsiders to be a happy life, there must be some shortcomings, so not to compare and criticize is the secret of a happy life.
Professor Dai Jinhua's point of view is not to make us feel sorry for ourselves, but to spur us to achieve the perfection we can, not to worry about things that we can't do, and to spend our limited energy on polishing ourselves is far more worthwhile than to complain about the status quo. I wish us all the best in this long journey of life and be able to become a better version of ourselves.
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Resources:
Department of Chinese, Peking University, 100871 Dai Jinhua. Department of Chinese Chinese Chinese Literature, Peking University.
Tutor Directory-Dai Jinhua. Peking university.