Why our best quality intellectual resources,
But become a coolie in a foreign country?
Text | Foggy barricads the river
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The New York Times has an article: "Why can't Asian children who have graduated from prestigious schools stand on the American elite?" 》
Reminds me of a well-known professor.
This professor studied at Harvard for 7 years.
Read to phD.
So he took many undergraduates.
Among the undergraduates, the professor's most hated was a Jewish girl.
Not only did he hate her, but his classmates couldn't stand her.
Students, usually wear a T-shirt, jeans, gray does not slip like a mink, how low-key how to come. But this Jewish girl is fierce, with brand names on her body, and the appearance of flaunting the market. Spend a long time every day painting your nails in class.
The most damning thing is that the Jewish sister doesn't know anything yet, in the words of the professor, "her basic knowledge is 0."
I don't know how she got into Harvard.
Even if the basic knowledge is 0, the Jewish sister is still pretentious, as long as she sees the professor, she rushes over, while shining the POSS show brand, while asking some embarrassing low-intelligence questions.
At this point, the Jewish sister also intensified, pointing at the students in the experimental class, shouting and drinking.
This is equivalent to each experimental class, the students are completed under her "command".
Forget it, I put up with it.
The professor told himself in his heart: Don't worry about this kind of person, cultivate your own acres and three points of land, and when I graduate, I will return to China and become a professor to see what mantras this Jewish sister has.
It can be said that the wish was granted, the professor spent seven years, and finally won the Harvard doctorate in economics, carrying the golden sign back to China, it can be said that the meal is not worried, and the elderly are raised.
I have long forgotten the nasty Jewish sister.
But suddenly one day, the professor saw her on TV.
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Professor, it is a very decent profession.
Ten fingers do not dip into the spring water, there is no shortage of food and clothing.
But the professor is ultimately a dead-paid man with a very short upper limit on his income.
So that day the professor sat in front of the TV and was shocked to see the Jewish sister who had been missing for many years shine, only to realize that he was seeing the chief operating officer of Facebook:
Shirley Sandberg!
Billion dollar female billionaire.
Stomping her feet, Silicon Valley shaking the mountains, being praised by Forbes as the most powerful person in the world, Harvard chased after her ass, and everyone said that this was the best student they taught.
At that time, the professor looked at this nasty Jewish girl in a daze, and there was only one thought in his mind - 20 years ago, when he taught this Jewish girl to read as a doctor, if someone asked him, do you think this girl will have a future appearance? The professor would shout loudly: Eat and go!
What does she rely on?
Just such a basic knowledge is 0, pretentious to people to point fingers at the goods, hunger can not die she even if she burns high incense, why does she still want to have a job?
However, 20 years later, the professor deeply realized:
This Jewish girl is the student that Harvard really wants.
And I myself, but I hitched a ride on the Jewish sister, all the learning and education concepts are wrong, but I use these wrong concepts to demand others, so the final result, I can only be a humble professor, and the Jewish sister, but open your mouth to eat eight directions.
So what kind of students does Harvard, or the Ivy League, or the world's top institutions really want?
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What elite schools are most eager to accept is the future leader.
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The New York Times story shows that James Hong— a Chinese kid — graduated in electrical engineering at Berkeley and went to AN INTERVIEW with IBM.
A Chinese researcher, reading James Hong's resume, got up and left his seat, walked over to close the office door, and then whispered to James Hong: Child, you will get a position, but I suggest you do not accept it. If you accept it, you are the next me. Here, Chinese Americans will never have the opportunity to enter the management, let alone enter the upper echelons. Our generation has suffered so much that I hope you have more opportunities and choices than we do. But in the end, we complete the cycle again and again.
After telling this story, The New York Times revealed a set of data:
In U.S. ivy league schools, Asians — the large proportion of children — are Chinese, accounting for 15 to 20 percent.
But in U.S. corporate management, Chinese make up less than 0.3 percent, less than 1 percent of boards, less than 2 percent of university presidents, and only nine Asian-American CEOs (mostly Indians) among Fortune 500 companies.
Of the 25 largest companies in the San Francisco Bay area, more than a third have Chinese employees, but at management, Chinese are less than 10 percent and at the board level, Chinese are less than 6 percent.
Chinese-Americans face a career ceiling, which is in some ways like a coolie.
Tim Wu, a law professor, said: Chinese children are selling coolies, and they are always moving in the direction of the hardest and most arduous work.
Chinese children are like migratory birds, flowing to the bottom of the United States, injecting high-quality coolies into the United States.
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Why are our best intellectual resources reduced to coolies in a foreign country?
The New York Times explains as follows:
First, the rules are different.
Chinese children are taught to be an old cattle, eat the least grass, milk the most milk, and get the fastest knife. Western-style education emphasizes the sense of mission to take the world as its responsibility. Therefore, Chinese professors, when they meet the latter kind of person, will not recognize it from their bones, thinking that the other party is not a serious cow.
But people are not cows.
It's the leader.
Second, Chinese children lack writing ability.
The New York Times believes that Chinese children generally face difficulties in writing, because Chinese children dare not write, and writing must have a clear point of view, but the environment in which Chinese children grow up, the clear views of individuals are not respected, and a person who does not even dare to have a point of view, even if he picks up a pen, does not know how to write.
Losing the ability to write is like losing the ability to think, which is the weakness of Chinese children.
Third, critical thinking.
Critical thinking is about jumping out of the box and looking down on all levels of society.
But most Chinese children have not received this kind of training and cannot even distinguish between facts, opinions and feelings. Chinese children lack the rules and patience to discuss issues, and the environment in which they grow up is to jump between facts, opinions and feelings. You talk about facts, he says opinions, you say opinions, he emphasizes feelings, you take his feelings into account, and he says facts speak louder than words. Critical thinking is not about winning or losing, but about gaining essential cognitive power, which is relatively unfamiliar to Chinese children.
Fourth, the emotion is serious and the expression is insufficient.
The above-mentioned professor, who studied at Harvard for seven years, is a doctorate, but he has no logic and no basis in his view of the Jewish sister, and is completely personal subjective feeling. A doctor and professor are so emotional, it is conceivable that the children he teaches are more problematic in their expression.
It is precisely because of the lack of expression that Chinese children rarely speak, dare not speak, for fear of saying the wrong thing. But Western-style education emphasizes the courage to express, and you listen to their children speak in a low-minded and shallow way, just because they know how to express themselves in the easiest way possible.
The ancient Chinese readers are the most historical. Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a destiny for the people, continue to learn from the saints, and open up peace for all the worlds. The magnificent ambition of the wise people in the past to save the lives of the people has been abandoned by the unbearable descendants. Originally, Chinese children were the best, but because of the regular diaphragm, the usual lack of training led to the individual excellence of our children, but the group did not perform well. It is to break the game, we must change the previous old cattle thinking, we are not cattle, but the masters of the future world. Chinese children need a strong sense of mission, no matter in any environment, have the courage to make their voices heard, and bravely express themselves. Only when our children master more effective rules of reality will the fate of our nation as a whole be changed.
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