A high degree of education means that a person's education level is greater than the job needs. On the contrary, it is lack of academic qualifications, such as substitute teachers in mountain villages.
Although over-education can alleviate the employment pressure and stimulate education consumption to a certain extent in the short term, it has far-reaching negative effects.
First of all, over-education dominates the limited educational resources, allowing people with high academic qualifications to do jobs that people with low academic qualifications can do, which just shows that the return on education investment is low. This is a huge waste for China, which is short of educational resources.
Secondly, over-education and under-education are two sides of the same body. In the long run, it will widen the gap between different regions and different industries, and intensify the "Matthew correspondence", which is not conducive to the improvement of the overall labor productivity of the whole society.
In addition, the atmosphere of over-education will make graduates continue to receive education in order to find ideal jobs, and repeated over-education will often form a vicious circle of education, which is not conducive to the development of human resources potential.
Over-education is not only the result of market function, but also the product of China's successful culture. To fundamentally solve the education problem, the most important thing is to establish fairness "within the system" and "outside the system", eliminate the dual economic structure between urban and rural areas, and realize the balanced economic development between the east and the west. In the environment of balanced economic and social development, equal rights, fair opportunities and social harmony, success will no longer be the only criterion, and everyone can achieve their own success through their own efforts.