Produced by | Tiger Sniff Youth Culture Group
Author | Wooden boy
Drafting, planning | Slag County
Caption figure | "Little Shed"
This article was first published on the tiger sniff young content public account "That NG" (ID: huxiu4youth). Here, we present the face, stories and attitudes of today's young people.
"Mathematics is the thing I hate the most in my life, I know it's the crystallization of human intelligence, it's mysterious, it's advanced, but I hate it because it ruined my childhood." 」
Even after many years, whenever my colleague "Xi'an Problem King" Cucumber Soda recalls the years dominated by math tuition, the irrepressible anger is still as fresh as just drying a can of Mantos.
"In our place, everyone put on the blackboard to do the problem, and if it is not done correctly, the teacher outside will take the book and fan the face one by one."
Cucumber soda's childhood belonged to Olympiad mathematics and English, and it was so tight that it was breathless. At the same time in Beijing, Zhazha County was learning literacy in the gentle company of a tutor, while I was learning guitar and chess.
"I really envy you, you can go to Tsinghua Peking University in 400 points."
Almost every Beijinger who goes to study in another province or city has heard similar envy from his classmates, and they return to Beijing to relay it to their friends as a joke.
But is this really just a boring misunderstanding? After this issue of Tiger Talks, we found that your childhood and my childhood seem to be really different.
Your childhood, my childhood, seems different
vol. 165
Planner: Slag County
Anchors: Cucumber Soda, Slag County, MuZi Tong
Production: CC
For the 90s generation at the end of the century, tuition is something as natural as breathing.
Whether you are poor or rich, intelligent or stupid, you have more or less been associated with tuition.
Some children asked tutors, such as Slag County, from the 4th grade to the 6th grade, followed the Chu teacher hired by the North Normal University, and made up for a full 3 years.
Some children eat large pots of rice, such as me, in the large classroom of the Children's Palace, with hundreds of children to make mathematical papers.
Beijing Children's Palace, once a place where many children studied
But in Beijing, we never feel that going to cram school is a matter of squeezing our heads, nor do we think that the pit of the famous teacher class is a capital worth showing off. But for cucumber soda in Xi'an, the situation is completely different.
In the childhood of cucumber soda, Xi'an's middle school had a set of secret school choice rules - the top students' internal determination was not to take the exam on the surface, but in the secret examination room of various cram schools.
The "dojo" of a famous teacher is often the admission qualification of a famous school, and for the location of these places, parents are like inheriting a rare treasure, passing it on by word of mouth, and keeping it secret.
In such a place, the master is like a god, holding the supreme power of life and death, and at the same time becoming an unforgettable nightmare for countless children.
Cucumber soda remembers that a local zhang name teacher, the class most like to order students on the blackboard to do problems, if you do wrong students will be punished to stand next to the blackboard, enough for 15 people, the famous teacher will pick up a booklet and slap the face of a child.
"I still have nightmares." Cucumber soda still has palpitations.
It's like the Hengshui Middle School that cucumber soda heard about other friends later, full of naked social Darwinism:
Legend has it that Hengshui Middle School has a rule that the top three students in each exam go to the teacher's office to eat a cake, while the top three in the last exam must stand next to it, watch the winners share the food, and taste the taste of failure.
In the fourth and fifth grades of primary school, every other day, cucumber soda has to go to math tutoring, from school to 11:30, washing and shabu, and sleeping until 1 o'clock at night. The next day at 7 a.m. I got up and went to school, and the cycle began.
Later, Cucumber Soda was admitted to the best local junior high school, following the same path, admitted to the best local high school, but at the moment of stepping into the high school door, she found that the string that she had stretched for so many years was broken.
"I think I may have used up my strength, I was born to study, until the day of the middle school entrance examination, how do I learn?" I'm so tired. ”
In the final stages of the cram run, she slowed down: "We were in love at that time, going out to smoke and drink. Two hours, these two hours I just drink and smoke, I don't study, and then two hours come, go home and write homework. ”
In the end, a 211 college became the culmination of her long tuition.
The thing is such a paradox, the children who have been forced to study since childhood have been consumed their last breath before the college entrance examination, while the children who have herded sheep from an early age have the motivation to learn at an old age.
Beijing children's slag county is like a pair of mirror images of cucumber soda, and the two have embarked on a completely symmetrical life trajectory.
Slag County did not go to cram school when he was a child, mathematics and language, English geography, accordion, Chinese painting, as long as Slag County is interested, you can get the opportunity to take classes.
It's just that very few can stick to it.
After a few abacus and math classes, Slag County protested with his mother: "I can't listen to this, why do you want me to listen to it?" I really don't understand. ”
So mathematics is no longer made up.
Until most of the time before the college entrance examination, the slag county spent it in play. Suddenly, one day, I was tired of playing, and the idea of studying turned back.
In the end, the college entrance examination remedial sprint, from the 4 courses added up to the bottom of 100 points, directly rushed to the undergraduate.
If tuition is seen as an investment, and the result is all about the 18-year-old stud, then it is undoubtedly an incredibly risky gamble.
Cucumber soda can feel a kind of tension from parents from an early age.
"As long as I have something disobedient, my father and my mother will say, do you know that the family is ruined for you to go to cram school and go to school?"
When I think of my parents cutting back on food and clothing, providing themselves with the best cram school within their ability, "maybe they really made up a suite", and they eventually failed to get into the 985, Cucumber Soda will feel remorseful.
Parents in Beijing are more accustomed to sharing risks and investing in tuition programs that are not so easy to test success or failure.
These tuition programs, or "interest classes," are a little more relevant. In my childhood, which occupied the same or even more time as subject tuition, I took instrumental music and chess classes.
Although I have not learned anything famous, I have also learned two skills, and there is no clear price of the score to mark the success or failure, and it does not look like a failed investment.
Of course, the impact of tuition on our lives may not be as simple as a result on the day of the college entrance examination. This guy who has been with him for 12 years is like an inconspicuous shadow, and may be with him for the rest of his life.
Cucumber soda hates math for taking away too much of the joy of childhood: "My childhood was made of mathematics, and to put it bluntly, I couldn't even jump on a leather band." ”
But she's also excited about math:
After leaving the college entrance examination environment for many years, by chance, she got a set of junior high school math test papers. At that moment, she suddenly felt a rush of adrenaline, and immediately asked for two pieces of scratch paper to solve the last two most difficult problems on the spot.
"Then the sense of accomplishment really came back at once, and the sense of superiority that had brushed up on the questions and could do the problems came back at once, just that very sick feeling."
After going to work in Beijing, once wandering in the Drum Tower, she ghostly walked into a teaching assistant bookstore, looked through the math textbooks from junior high school to high school, and looked at it for a full 3 hours.
Tuition this thing, do you hate it or like it?
Children do multiple choice questions, and adults can't choose answers.
"So, will you send your kids to cram school?"
Finally I asked.
Cucumber Soda replied, "This is actually a question that my friends around me have discussed a long time ago, and our answers are exactly the same - just like we suffered at that time, we would send our own children in and suffer that again." ”
"According to my life experience, he still has to be a problem-solver like me in order to live an ordinary life."
Slag County replied: "If I have children, I would prefer him to give him a space to do what he likes." ”
But this does not mean that he is in favor of abolishing tuition, because perhaps without tuition, many people "don't even have the opportunity to spend money to change their lives".
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