In previous years, the enrollment of undergraduate students has been expanded, and the enrollment of graduate students has been expanded in recent years, resulting in a significant depreciation of academic qualifications and uneven quality of students.
However, there are not so many ideal jobs in society, and the phenomenon of unemployment after graduation is very common, and even the theory of the uselessness of reading in the new era has been produced.
In fact, these problems were also encountered by the ancients, such as Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Liu Xiu was the most undesirable son of Emperor Jing of Han, one of the many descendants of Liu Fa the King of Changsha, and in his childhood, Wang Mang was lost to Han and the old Liu family's Jiangshan.
Therefore, Liu Xiu could not touch the light of his ancestors and could only rely on his own efforts, but unlike the eldest brother Liu Xiu, who wanted to rebel, he chose a more "normal" path, that is, reading.
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Average grades too student, founder of the sharing economy
In that year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed the Hundred Schools of Confucianism and established Taixue. At first, Taixue had only five doctorates, equivalent to professors, and fifty doctoral disciples, equivalent to students. After the doctoral disciple has passed the examination, he can directly become an official.
Later, the scale of Taixue grew larger and larger, and the number of doctoral disciples increased to three thousand during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han. When Wang Mang was regent, he carried out another large-scale expansion of enrollment, which suddenly surged to 10,000 people, and they also had the official name - Taisheng.
Faced with such an opportunity, Liu Xiu was moved, and became a glorious student through operation. At that time, going to school was based on recommendation, and you couldn't get into the exam if you wanted to!
Taixue's courses are all Confucian classics, and Liu Xiuxuan's professional course is "Shang Shu".
What about academic performance?
The Book of the Later Han Says He "has a slight understanding of righteousness." If he said this himself, it would be called modesty, and if it was a historian with a heart and eyes, it would be called the Spring and Autumn Brushwork.
To put it bluntly, the grades are average.
What's more, according to scholars' estimates, the number of official officials in the country at that time was less than 10,000, where would the 10,000 students of Wuyang Wuyang go after graduation?
As a result, Liu Xiu was unable to embark on a career path, and had to roll up the covers and go home. But his career was not useless, he increased his knowledge and insights, made classmates and friends, and became an excellent social person.
For example, Liu Xiu and his brother Han Zi on the bunk.
The cost of living in the capital was too high, and they discussed it together, pooled their money to buy donkeys, and then rented them to others. If there had been angel investment at that time, Liu Xiu might have become the founder of shared single donkey.
Liu Xiu also has a distant relative named Zhu Hu. They had "bought honey medicine" in Chang'an, and they who had not systematically studied medical skills could at most do some daily medication, or simply a placebo, and those who sold powerful pills might as well worship Liu Xiu as their grandfather.
Soon Liu Xiu made another big business. He rented a large house in Chang'an City, specially received people who came to Beijing from Nanyang to do things, and took advantage of the near water building platform to carry out various matchmaking work, and a director of the Nanyang Office in Beijing was alive and free.
If he had not become emperor later, Liu Xiu might have had a cattle that could blow for a lifetime, and his uncle Liu Chang entrusted him to go to sima Yanyou's mansion to complain about a money and grain lawsuit.
The Grand Sima was in charge of the military and originally did not care about money and grain, so we should understand that this was taking the back door of the trust relationship.
When Yan You left the palace, he saw Liu Xiu's appearance and stopped to talk to him for a few words.
Although this relationship is the foundation laid by Liu Chang, for an ordinary student, without excellent interpersonal skills, how can he talk and laugh with the minister of defense?
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College classmates became the backbone members of his entrepreneurial team
And the role of human connections is not only in the immediate moment, but also in poetry and far away.
For example, Deng Yu, who took the initiative to befriend Liu Xiu.
Deng Yu was able to recite the Book of Poetry at the age of thirteen, and was a good student with excellent character and learning, and during his study tour in Chang'an, he saw that Liu Xiu was not an ordinary person, and the two became good friends.
Many years later, he joined Liu Xiu's team and put forward a strategy based on the development of Hebei, helping Liu Xiu recruit many talents and become the founding father of the country.
Another example is Qiang Hua, who lives in a dormitory with Liu Xiu.
After Liu Xiu gained a firm foothold in Hebei, Qianghua came from Guanzhong and presented the "Red Volt", which reads: "Liu Xiufa's soldiers cannot be captured, the four Yi gather in the dragon fighting field, and the fire is the main one on the occasion of April and July."
In that era when people generally believed in the Mandate of Heaven, it was equivalent to directly declaring the legitimacy of Liu Xiu's title as emperor.
These stories tell us that in school, it is important not only to learn book knowledge, but also to learn social knowledge, and it is also important to deal with people.
Liu Xiu relied on this skill, turned danger into disaster many times, changed from weak to strong, and finally married Bai Fumei and embarked on the peak of life.
In the famous Battle of Kunyang, facing the pressure of the great enemy, it was almost a battle without suspense.
Liu Xiu is only a small partial general, how can he turn the tide?
He first persuaded Wang Feng, the big man of the Green Forest Army, to stick to the reinforcements, and then personally broke through the siege and persuaded the good men of the Green Forest who only cared about grabbing money and grain, so that the combination of inside and outside was a complete victory.
Liu Xiu's high emotional intelligence and publicity and agitation ability are of course not innate, and are inseparable from the experience of mixed society in the university era.
When the eldest brother Liu Ji was killed by Emperor Gengshi, Liu Xiu, who was on the front line, accurately judged the situation, immediately rushed back to the emperor Liu Xuan to submit softly, skillfully took advantage of nanyang Haoqiang's secret support, and through Liu Xuan's close subordinates, gained his trust, was sent to Hebei to appease, and from then on like a dragon into the sea.
I am afraid that this sleekness and observation of words and colors were tempered during the office of the Beijing Office.
During the second entrepreneurship in Hebei, in the face of the complicated situation of warlords, Liu Xiu resolutely married Guo Shengtong, and exchanged a political marriage for 100,000 soldiers and horses and financial support from Liu Yang, the king of Zhending, thus smoothly eliminating the fierce enemy Wang Lang and quickly controlling the situation in Hebei.
He did not hesitate to bear the insult of Yin Lihua and exchange practical benefits, which was not economically minded.
At that time, there must have been many students with no hope for the future who sighed that they were victims of the expansion of enrollment.
However, Liu Xiu can make good use of this platform to make himself a beneficiary of the expansion of enrollment.
Not to mention that Taixue did cultivate a lot of talents, in addition to Deng Yu, there were zhang kan, Ren Yan, etc., who later became liu xiu's capable officials.
After the Taiping of the world, Liu Xiu also attached great importance to the development of Taixue, on the one hand, he naturally remembered the past, and on the other hand, he saw the role of education in promoting social development.
By the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the number of Tai students increased to more than 30,000, and the famous Zhang Heng and Wang Chong were from Taixue, and at the time of Emperor Huan Lingdi, Tai students raised the banner of rebellion against the eunuch dictatorship and became the guardians of justice.
For today's college students who complain about the uselessness of reading, think about what they did in school, is it a game every day?
If the professional course is not good, can you go out of your own way like Liu Xiu. After all, there are many opportunities in modern society than in ancient times, and there is more than one way to become an official.
Or the poisonous chicken soup that says it well: it's not that reading is useless, it's that you're useless.