No one scolded Zhai Tianlin every year
But every year, people scold Zhai Tianlin
In 2021, also known as "Three Years of Heavenly Presence".
Three years ago, when the actor Zhai Tianlin was live- he lost his upcoming doctoral diploma with a sentence of "what is CNKI".
Immediately triggered the domino effect of plagiarism and degree fraud.
Many people suffer from a so-called "CNKI sequelae" as a result.
Also known as "Zhai Tianlin sequelae".
For example, not long ago, actor Zhang Xincheng was asked about the CPA (Certified Public Accountant Exam) during the live broadcast, and immediately panicked to check, thinking that it was similar to CNKI.
When Wang Ziqi and Su Xiaotong, artists who had just finished writing their graduation thesis, heard a word called HE (Happy Ending), and the two quickly whispered to the staff what it was.
Some netizens ridiculed: Zhai Tianlin, this prosperous world is as you wish.
But unexpectedly, Zhai Tianlin's domino was finally smashed not on Zhai Tianlin himself, nor on the actors who suffered from "sequelae", but on tens of millions of graduates who had to write papers every year.
The sentence on the Internet, "No one hates Zhai Tianlin every year, but every year someone hates Zhai Tianlin", which is exactly how it came.
Since 2019, the graduation thesis standards of many colleges and universities have been raised, and the repetition rate has been more than doubled.
This allows more students who write graduation thesis to go to Weibo to shout Zhai Tianlin as soon as the graduation season comes.
"Zhai Tianlin, have you slept?" I'm still rushing to the paper, how can you sleep? ”
To this end, Zhai Tianlin also quietly sent a Microblog "testing the waters".
But netizens did not buy it, and the comment area was full of scolding.
Why did Zhai Tianlin scold him so much?
In a word, because he single-handedly increased the difficulty of his graduation thesis.
But Shu Shanjun is fair, among them, the check mechanism cannot be exempted from responsibility.
A famous "jujube tree stem" circulated on the Internet:
Original thesis: There are two jujube trees in front of my house.
One change: There are two trees in front of my house, one is a date tree, and the other is also a date tree.
Second change: Two fruiting trees were planted in front of my house, one called a jujube tree, and the other, also called a jujube tree.
Three changes: There are two trees in front of my house, which bear lush fruit. The one on the left is a jujube tree, the one on the right looks very similar to the left, guess what my old baby, it's actually a date tree, isn't it a coincidence?
The current university mechanism is like this emotionless weight checking machine, one-size-fits-all, not humane enough.
"External worries and internal troubles", diplomas are becoming more and more difficult to obtain.
"Doctors walk all over the street, masters are not as good as dogs"
However, a more brutal truth is that even if you get a Ph.D., it may not be useful.
What do you mean?
Today, diplomas all over the world are inevitably moving towards "diploma inflation."
This concept comes from the famous American sociologist Randall Collins, who mentioned in his book "Diploma Society":
"Diploma inflation" refers to:
As more and more people earn higher degrees, the educational requirements of job positions are also rising.
As more and more people obtain an educational diploma or degree, their value declines.
Translated: diplomas are becoming less and less valuable.
The harder you try, the higher the threshold.
"NetEase Digital Reading" has counted the expanding group of Chinese doctors:
The number of doctoral degrees awarded exceeded 10,000, taking 100 years in the United States and only 17 years in China.
What is this concept?
Our grandparents and fathers, high Chinese can be assigned to a good job, and the people who go to college are elite talents.
Today, when "college students walk all over the streets" and "Buddha does not cross the undergraduate level", a better job requires that the requirements are above the undergraduate level.
So many people laugh at themselves:
"Doctors walk all over the street, masters are not as good as dogs."
"3,000 a month can't recruit migrant workers, but 3,000 a month can recruit a large number of college students."
Tom Nichols even described the worst-case scenario in "Death of an Expert":
A diploma can neither prove that you have been educated nor that you have been trained, but at most you are present.
The worst case scenario is that a diploma only proves that you paid your tuition on time.
Diplomas are hard to get, but more and more people are getting them. At the same time, its gold content is also shrinking.
This is the real dilemma for graduates.
Everything can be rolled inward
Zhai Tianlin apologized, meaning that everyone scolded him because of the pressure of the graduation season and took him as a catharsis.
Graduation season is stressful, and that's true.
But what people hate is not only that he single-handedly let the "check rate" of many colleges and universities drop again and again. Instead, in the context of the depreciation of the diploma, he also made a whole falsification incident.
This is undoubtedly "worse".
We used to believe that hard work pays off:
When I was a child, my family background was not good, and we believed that effort would change.
When I was studying, my academic performance was not good, and we believed that effort would change.
Growing up, the economic conditions are not good, and we believe that effort will change.
So we study hard, don't fall in love early, don't skip school, in order to get into a good university. As a result, when you look up, you find that as long as the "Zhai Tianlin" moves their fingers, a "Ctrl C" + "Ctrl V", they will get on a helicopter and wait for you at the finish line.
As a netizen commented on Zhai Tianlin's Weibo:
For most people in the world, the cold window is hard to study, and when you get a diploma in college, you can only win an opportunity to go to the 996 society.
And some people, relying on their connections, can study for a doctorate at Peking University without any effort.
"Zhai Tianlin" is just a symbol. What we scold is all these endless incidents.
Last year, singer Tong Zhuo blew himself up when he took the college entrance examination and cheated, changing his identity from a previous student to a fresh graduate.
Chen Chunxiu, a girl from a peasant family in Shandong, found that her college entrance examination results that year had been impersonated.
Our myths about education have been broken again and again, and finally what comes to the surface is Randall Collins's view of the nature of education:
The essence of the education system is a currency that artificially imposes values.
Schools are not ivory towers of knowledge and wisdom, utopias.
As the economist Guan Qingyou said: "The biggest depreciation over the years is not the currency, but your efforts." ”
It turns out that diplomas can also be watered, and efforts can also be devalued.
That is, everything can be rolled in.
Written by: Xiao Zhouguan
Editor-in-chief: Lin Wei