The children of the rich are desperately trying to read
Poor children are living in school
What exactly does a good educational environment mean?
Why is it getting harder and harder for the cold door to get out of Takako?
To find out why
The British BBC has done a special experiment for this purpose
They will be three students of ordinary public schools
and three students from elite private schools
Exchange to each other's schools
Have a week-long exchange experience
And thus made a documentary
Huge gap inside
Let many people understand why the children of the rich are more likely to succeed
Whether they are all about money and connections
With a new perspective
The two schools involved in this film are
Benrose Public Schools and Warminster Private Schools
BenRose Public School has a total of 700 students
Education is funded around £5 million a year
Half of the school's students are eating free student meals
The teaching environment is relatively backward
Warminster School is a 300-year-old senior boarding school
There are only 400 students in the school
But the annual education funding amounts to £9 million
Very well equipped with hardware
There are 12 tennis courts alone
Tuition fees are as high as £27,000 a year
Children who can generally go to school here
They are all elite families that are either rich or expensive
In the UK
Only seven percent of people can afford to attend private schools
But senior positions throughout the country
Almost all of them are in the hands of this group of people
Mark is the principal of Warminster Private School
At this time he was preparing to take his three students with him
Go to BenRose School to experience life of exchange
The three students are Katie, a blonde girl
Boarder John and day student Zander
And responsible for receiving them
It was the principal of Ben Ross Public School, Joe
And the three public school exchange students standing next to her
Naz, a Syrian girl, and Brett, a white boy
and Middle Eastern boy Kasmu
In Principal Joe's opinion
The reason why aristocratic private schools can produce so many elites
It's not how good their education is
Rather, they have a wider network of contacts
But is that really the case?
After a few greetings
Principal Joe plans to take three private school students to do an entrance test
Because it is just in time for the admission of new students
Joe put their entrance tests together
Soon, the test results came out
There is a big gap between the two groups of students
The average reading level of three private school students
All far exceed the 18-year-old group
And Ben Ross' 13 freshmen read at the level
But only when he was about seven years old, Principal Joe told Mark
In this school
Half of the students are of this level
Because public schools have new students coming in at any time
Most of them are immigrants from abroad
Many of them have come from the Middle East to take refuge
Some don't even know English
Not to mention the unified teaching level
Hearing this, Principal Mark couldn't help but make some differences
Because Warminster has extremely strict admissions requirements
They don't just require students to have excellent grades
Interviews are also held with each child's parents prior to enrolment
Not only do they have to be good enough
You have to be rich enough
After the test
Three students were placed in different classes
Zander, a student at a private school, takes art classes with Brett at a public school
In class, Bright chatted recklessly and made trouble
Disrupt classroom discipline
Zander asked him why he was doing this
Bright's answer was
It's fun and free
Zander then asked
Did you know that this will affect your future?
Bright replied
If you don't study well, you certainly will
Apparently Bled also knew the importance of learning
But his actions were incomprehensible to Zander
But what makes Zander even more incomprehensible is that
None of the students here seem to have goals
Get by every day
Students in public schools don't wake up until eight in the morning
School ended at three o'clock in the afternoon
They also had nothing else to do after school
Surf the Internet right at home to play games
Assignments and club activities are almost never on their plans
And students in private schools
I had to get up at 6:30 every morning
School ends around 5 p.m
Also participate in various extracurricular activities
Katie, a blonde girl from a private school, said
Although this relaxed atmosphere made him somewhat envious
But if you stay in such an environment for a long time
She may lose the motivation to learn
It was something she didn't want to see
Exactly what causes students at both schools
There is such a big difference in grades and literacy
Is it the level of teaching?
I think the answer is no
Zander went through a period of experience
It is believed that the level of teaching here is comparable to that of private schools
Even in the eyes of his fellow friend John
Math teachers here teach better than they do at their school
Originally complex and difficult to understand trigonometric functions
Here he could easily understand
Principal Joe of public schools also said
They have a lot of teachers with low teaching standards
It is due to inability to do public school work
Only then did I go to a private school to teach
From this point of view
There is not much difference in the level of teachers between the two schools
So what exactly causes this difference
Mark, the headmaster of a public school, gave his students a history lesson
It was found that there is no shortage of excellent students in public schools
But they generally lack self-confidence and self-awareness
Not only that, but their self-discipline really needs to be improved
With the end of the student exchange of private schools
Three students from the public school were also led by Principal Joe
Went to the Private School of Warminster, which they had longed for
Just entered Warminster
The three students were faced with rules and regulations comparable to militarization
The dormitory administrator strictly forbade them to use their mobile phones
What time to get up and what time to fall asleep is clearly defined
Every student here needs to wear a school uniform and a school badge
Every button in a shirt needs to be buttoned in place
The hem must be tucked into the pants
Leather shoes should be polished spotlessly
Girls are prohibited from wearing any jewelry
In Mark's opinion
In this way, students can be urged to develop a good living habit
Cultivate students' self-discipline
Besides
Principal Mark also attaches great importance to the overall development of students' self-confidence and moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic work
He never skimped on praise for his students
It also attaches great importance to the cultivation of students' skills in music, art, sports and so on
Clubs such as the Automobile Club and the Astronomical Society have been set up to cultivate students' interests and hobbies
And Principal Joe of public schools also found out
Warminster's students are in such an environment
It has indeed developed a kind of confidence and wisdom that is not urgent
In a speech
Principal Joe found that Mark often mentioned some world celebrities in front of his students
They are even invited to speak at the school
This sets an example for the students
Also hint at them
You can be that person yourself
She would love to emulate Principal Mark's approach
But he sadly found that he was not a circle of people with them
What made Principal Joe even more frustrated was that
At a dinner party
Every student in Warminster behaved generously and talkatively
But several of Benrose's students looked a little nervous
I didn't even dare to open my mouth easily
The difference is not insignificant
Even Principal Joe himself felt very restrained
A week to experience down
Principal Joe felt that he had gained a lot
At the same time, I also see the gap between myself and others
She decided to strengthen the students' all-round development of students' morality, intellectual, physical and aesthetic work after going back
Although from a realistic point of view
She couldn't have become the second Warminster
But she also wants her students to shine brightly
Education as the best way for class circulation
How to achieve equity in education
It is a topic that will never be outdated in ancient and modern China and abroad
But today, when the gap between the rich and the poor and the class are getting worse, the gap between the rich and the poor is getting worse
This seems to have become a problem that requires the joint efforts of the whole society to solve
There's no denying it
Good economic conditions and excellent educational environment
It really makes better individuals
But most people in reality are ordinary people
In the absence of superior external conditions
We can only go strong through our own efforts
Whatever the case
Believe in self-discipline and self-esteem to confident people
It's not going to be too bad