More than a year ago, in our generation's primary school years, people often mentioned the concepts of happy learning and happy education in the United States. Their desks are not as straight and vertical as we do, but sit in circles together. They have very little or no homework, and parents don’t have headaches because of tutoring homework. They can play skateboarding and baseball in their spare time, and we do homework and attend cram schools in our spare time.
is very envious, so on this basis, yearns for American education to become one of the reasons why families with capable children send their children to study abroad.
But many years have passed, when we look at the current social and educational situation in the United States carefully, we find that the current situation where the polarization of capitalist society separates education is better than our relatively fair education system.
01 "Elite Education" represents the education that represents the United States, and "happy education" is not.
Elite education is a form of education in the upper class of the United States. People under elite education are not happy to learn. Although there is some difference from the pain of our learning, it is definitely not big. They also teach knowledge systems of similar levels during almost the same teaching schedule. They did not master knowledge interestingly in a relaxed atmosphere, because they understood as we did: learning is a painful process.
Elite education is mostly private schools. People in the lower class can only receive public school education for many reasons, and the resources of public education are not a little bit worse than those of private ones. The "inclination" of educational resources makes public school teachers not very concerned about students' academic performance, and of course the assessment of performance is relatively relaxed. Therefore, letting students come to class happily and get off get out of class happily and go home happily has become the main task.
More importantly, the group of people who promote the progress of American society do not come from happy education. Even if they consciously want to join the elite education, it is full of difficulties.
02 The gap between the two types of education is too deep and difficult to overcome.
The lower-level Americans who are enjoying happy education will not be too many people who have awakened their thoughts. And even after awakening, it is even more difficult to overcome.
Among the many reasons, money is the first major problem. There is no such thing as a private and public university in the United States. If you want to go to a good university, in addition to passing the grades, tuition fees are a big problem. In the early years, a friend who studied abroad said that the minimum fee for Americans to go to college was about 300,000 yuan. The "easy to go in and difficult to graduate" attribute of American universities gives people with college degrees a greater probability of turning over and rising, so some people need to use student loans to help complete the transformation of their lives. Obama After entering politics, his wife once sighed in a talk show that they had paid off the loan they had when they were in college with their wife in their 40s.
03 The education system in Asian countries is turning around
You will find that the education system in Asian countries is very similar. You think that the college entrance examination in our country is very important and critical. However, the intra-text of the Korean people's college entrance examination is more serious. The phenomenon of parents "accompanying to study" is much earlier than us, and the development of the education industry is unimaginable. In Korean society under the rule of chaebols, if you want to leap the class, you will not have any chance if you don’t pass the college entrance examination.
Of course, the same is true for Japanese education, but its "low material desires", "second-dimensional culture", etc., have made us only pay attention to some aspects. In fact, the investment in Japanese society in education is also at the level of "volume king".
Not to mention North Korea, self-sufficiency, and the high nationalization of education, medical care, etc. allows people to enjoy compulsory education for longer than our country.
The "involvement" in education in Asian countries is a century-long plan to turn things around. There are many aspects to the strength of national strength, but no matter which one is culture, science and technology, military industry, big data, etc., it is ultimately education. Therefore, if the overall level of the entire people cannot be improved in education, then there is no way to talk about national strength. The reason why
did not follow American education is that the system is different, and the other is that it sees the disadvantages brought by its "separation".It is true that when it comes to top, the United States is excellent; but when it comes to homogenization, the United States cannot do it. The "equalization" of education is a necessary path to improve the overall national quality. After passing the same assessment of relatively fairness, we will enter the relatively fair stage, and treat everyone equally no matter what class, component or ethnic group. This is the right way.
Maybe we are complaining about the rigidity of the college entrance examination and complaining that the expansion of college enrollment makes college students worthless. But compared with the United States' approach of cutting off the enjoyment of equal educational resources by lower-class people and a country's two sets of education systems, we are much happier.
So, education brings the same "running shoes", who can run fast depends on your ability. The United States, which has a disconnected education, will not give all classes the same "running shoes", and some people may not have shoes at all.
