But in the middle class, the role of "school education" is not so great, and the most important thing is "family education". Only by cooperating with schools can children become better people and wait for the choice of society.
The top-level elite education, in plain English, provides a basic environment, and ultimately plays a role in the family's own concept, social class and wealth status.
The content, goal and mission of education are completely different for all social classes. Let's take America as an example.
Bottom exam-oriented education
What is the purpose of education at the bottom of American society? Is to let the baby have a job. To put it bluntly, it is enough to turn the baby into a useful social tool. Not to cultivate a talent, but to build a tool.
A touching example of American education is a completely positive model called KIPP.
This is a public school for slum children. What does KIPP mean? It means "knowledge is power".
This school is doing very well.
The bottom children who just came in were two grades lower than other middle-class children's schools when they first came in, but after KIPP training, they immediately caught up with other middle-class children.
The trick is simple: just do exam-oriented education like China. Don't think that American schools are all quality-oriented education. No, for the bottom, exam-oriented education is the best education, because at least it can get him a job.
But the core of this KIPP school is to get into college. Examination-oriented education, two basic points are called hard work and being a good person-that is, studying hard and being a good person.
Its basic method is actually very simple, that is, let these children at the bottom, especially those black or Latino children, cut clean with their original communities.
I used to hang out with the gangsters on the block and take drugs together. Now stay at school every day; Others go to school at eight or nine in the morning and finish school at three in the afternoon. KIPP's baby goes to school at 7: 30 in the morning and finishes school at 5 pm. Then she did a lot of homework, went straight to sleep after finishing her homework, and had no time to play with those gangsters in the block.
This school has a very complicated reward system. Just entered this school, sorry, you don't have tables and chairs, you are all sitting at the bottom of the class; If you do well, such as doing well in the exam, you will be rewarded with a set of desks and chairs. Besides, he is very disciplined. When a child made a small gesture and lost his mind, the teacher immediately stopped it.
Say, "Come on, let's all help him and see how to get rid of your bad habits!" " "... the reward is also very direct, and the performance is particularly good. Junior students give some pencils or look for gold directly; What's more, for example, you are allowed to wear headphones to listen to music at noon. ...
Until eating, including going to the toilet, what kind of toilet paper to use, how to use it and how much to use it are all regulated, which is close to militarized management.
So, you see, that Maotan Factory Middle School in China is said to be a concentration camp for college entrance examination, and you have to go to KIPP in the United States to know what a concentration camp is. Because only in this way can the children at the bottom overcome their habits, and then enter the threshold of university, and the fate of life can be changed.
So although this is a positive example, what I want to tell you is only a negative message, that is, the education at the bottom, and the best is just that. It's exactly the same as those schools in China that have exam-oriented education. There is no quality education!
So where is quality education? It's in a middle-class school.