Knowledge changes destiny
We grew up listening to that
No matter what age you are, there is certainly nothing wrong with learning more knowledge
The college entrance examination is the fairest choice in our lives: grades determine everything, and it has nothing to do with family background, experience, and resources!
Therefore, in order to get into a good university, the children did everything they could!
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Involution is a term that has risen on the Internet in recent years
The definition is that it is confined to a certain range of vicious competition or meaningless efforts, and peers compete to make more efforts to compete for limited resources, resulting in a decline in the "benefit-effort ratio" of individuals
Involution has always existed
It's just that with the development of society and the disappearance of the demographic dividend, the degree of involution is becoming more and more serious
Take schools, for example
Lao Mo has a seven-year-old child at home
At his age, Lao Mo didn't know what reading was, what English was, and what a spring outing was
After school, I went crazy with my friends
Or hide and seek, or play cards, or catch birds, no homework
The days can be said to be carefree
What about children?
Kindergarten began to leave homework, although not much, every day
Parents are frantically enrolling their children in hobby classes
Soccer lessons, basketball lessons, dance lessons, writing lessons, Go lessons, and more
Arrange Saturdays, Sundays, and even weeknights to the fullest
For fear that the child will lose at the starting line
As everyone knows, this is a realistic embodiment of involution, where does a seven- or eight-year-old child come from?
02
Recently, a senior high school teacher took a video of students bowing their heads and reading hard in the classroom, which sparked heated discussions among netizens
In the video, the seventeen or eighteen-year-old children are already full of gray hair, both men and women
This is a young man who is full of vigor and vitality, and he is clearly an old man in his sixties and seventies
There are many reasons for fewer whiteheads, such as genetics, such as staying up late, such as irregular diet, unhealthy, etc.!
High school students generally live on campus, so there is no such thing as eating irregularly or unhealthy
Heredity does exist, but so many children are white-headed
It means that the mental stress that causes them to age rapidly is high!
Anyone who went to high school knows it
The third year of high school and the first and second years of high school are two completely different states
Teachers and parents will frantically tell their children:
The college entrance examination is too important, this year is about your whole life, you must work hard!
It can increase the stress on the children and keep them awake at night
Even eating, which is supposed to be a slow down and enjoyable time, has become boring!
Do you know how involuted high school students are now?
A high school student once shared his day at school, as follows:
Before six o'clock in the morning, the classroom lights on the third floor of the high school were already lit;
At noon, there is often a spectacular scene of sprinting 100 meters to the cafeteria.
During the lunch break, there is always a group of people who continue to work on the questions in the classroom, which makes the students who go back to the dormitory to take a nap feel very guilty. There is no extracurricular activity time in the afternoon, and the last period is only 45 minutes after the end of the class and the evening self-study. There are even many students, in order to gain more study time, they still study with a small desk lamp on after the lights are turned off in the school dormitory
And that's just in school
Lao Mo has a nephew in Anshan, Liaoning, who is a sophomore this year
When I was in high school in Anshan, I wanted to give my children a good learning environment
His parents rented him a room near the school
Every Saturday and Sunday, I will go to buy food for my children and use it
Children have a full schedule on Saturdays and Sundays, making up English in the morning and math in the afternoon
On days when I don't have classes, I study until 11 or 2 o'clock in the middle of the night every day
If such intensity is seen in people in their thirties and forties, can they stand it?
03
If you roll alone, you are not afraid, but you are afraid that the people around you will start to roll
When a person in the dormitory buys a desk to read at night, don't be afraid
I'm afraid that there are seven or eight people in the dormitory, and everyone else does it
Why are you so embarrassed to fall asleep?
In this era of college students, it is far from enough to take the junior college and two books
For a considerable number of candidates, failing to take a test, or even repeating it, is a failure!
On the evening of 29, 2012, a tragedy occurred in Shuimu Nianhua Community, Xinbei District, Changzhou, where a 19-year-old high school student from No. 5 Middle School jumped to his death after a conflict with his parents due to high study pressure.
In 2013, a student from Zhengkou Middle School in Gucheng County, Hebei Province suddenly fell from the fourth floor of the teaching building due to study pressure
At around 0:10 on September 22, 2014, two male high school students from Linli No. 1 Middle School in Hunan Province jumped from the 5th floor of the student dormitory. After the emergency personnel arrived at the scene, it was confirmed that You died on the spot, and Long was still breathing weakly, and later died after rescue efforts failed
On May 23, 2015, a 17-year-old sophomore in Jinan jumped from his home on the 15th floor and ended his life. It is understood that the deceased is suspected to be under pressure to study
Adults who live under pressure for a long time can have a nervous breakdown, let alone teenagers!
Poor, terrible
In order to change fate, people have the spirit of hard work, but poverty rarely drives people to death
What about involution?
I can't see it, I can't touch it, but it really exists around the children, devouring their nature little by little
The end result is that 20% of people own 80% of their wealth, and the vast majority of people have an ordinary life
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How to help children solve the involution crisis?
Appropriate weight loss in schools is necessary
But the most fundamental reason is that parents and teachers need to change their consciousness
Gone are the days when academic qualifications changed fate
There is Yan Ruyu in the book, and there is a golden house in the book
This has been the perception of many people for thousands of years
In the past, there were few scholars, the level of education of the people was low, and things were scarce and expensive
We must abandon the backward idea that reading can lead to promotion and wealth
Treat learning as a lifelong self-cultivation
As we all know, higher education in China has become widespread and seriously involuted
As early as a few years ago, there were twice as many master's students in Beijing as undergraduates
Doctoral enrollment has doubled across the country
Correspondingly, the development of all walks of life in China tends to be saturated, and the strata continue to fixate
As a result, the college entrance examination has changed less and less in life
With the development of the times, new opportunities have emerged, such as AI intelligence
If you can't get into a good university, it doesn't mean that you will fail in life
What we need to do is to keep up with the times and constantly update our way of thinking
Schools should give children how they learn, not what they learn!
Therefore, parents and friends, please stop the involution and create a relaxed and healthy learning environment for the children, they have exhausted their power, so don't chant the mantra at any time!
In education reform, the first thing to reform is the thinking of parents!