The latest research results from the United States

Fortune magazine introduced the results of a study on whether children can become inventors. The word inventor caters to the current upsurge of "mass innovation and mass entrepreneurship", which has attracted my attention, but the results of the study are inevitably worrying and thoughtful.

The results show that the possibility of TA becoming an inventor in the future can be judged according to his achievements in science and mathematics in the third grade of primary school. This is good news. By the third grade, most children's grades are still at the level of double hundred, and everyone's children can become inventors. Good, good, but not all. Because there are other conditions, I really don't want these conditions If you want to stay happy, don't look down.

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The conditions listed in the study include: 1% income families' children's probability of becoming inventors is 10 times that of low-and middle-income families; Right? It seems that Ma Yun, Ma, and Liu's children have advantages. However, the bosses' children grew up and did not seize the position of inventors. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There is another one: the probability of white children becoming inventors is three times that of black children; This is related to the educational environment, and the reasons will be mentioned later.

The number of patents held by women only accounts for18% of the total number of patents in the United States; This should be related to life tradition and growth education. It is understandable that boys should be more practical, extroverted and have wider contacts. This is a tendentious problem in growth education, which is the same in both China and foreign countries.

The content of learning from idols is certainly not how to play mobile phones.

Those who are near ink are red, and those who are near ink are black.

In the process of growing up, whether you have had close contact with inventors will also increase the probability that children will become inventors in the future.

I haven't seen it. How did it become? No connection, no way to go.

This kind of seeing is not seen in books, papers or videos, but "intimate contact", which means that when you shake hands face to face, you can feel whether the other person's hand is cold or ice; When you have spoken face to face, you can even feel the strength of each other's tone in your face. Well, that's intimate contact.

In the words of Alex Speer, a doctoral student at Harvard University who participated in the research, "You can't be the person you haven't met. It is important to have a mentor or role model who is similar to you to some extent. "

See, not only education, but also the vision and pattern formed by contact. This has nothing to do with race and gender, but only with the foundation of education, the environment of education and the width of contact. The conclusion of this study is that the United States is currently facing an increasingly serious problem of unequal opportunities. Among them, the most serious inequality of opportunity is the inequality of growth environment and social capital owned by children from different families. Among them, whether a child can get in touch with outstanding adults who can become TA tutors when he grows up.

Inequality exists objectively and does great harm. However, for the sake of children, we still have to overcome difficulties. If we carefully study the process of this research, can we draw a conclusion? If you want to be an inventor, let your children have more contact with inventors. So if you want your child to become a calligrapher, do you have to contact calligraphers more? Musicians look for opportunities to watch live musicians. When they become schoolmasters, they will find a schoolmaster to play with.

Come on, parents have a Cosplay and play Confucius. Of course, he may be good at beating Lao Zi and his grandson now.

Do you see hope?

Yes, inventors may be hard to find, but calligraphers, musicians and scholars are still easy to find. Participating in interest classes is the most convenient for primary school students, and there is nothing difficult to do well with money.

But my advice is more direct. As a parent, you can play the role of the person you want your child to be. Can you study with your children without skills and foundation?

As long as children see their parents' efforts to reform themselves, they can at least become a person who loves learning. This kind of companionship is the longest and the most profound. Therefore, if parents have been playing mobile phones and watching TV, children must be mobile phone owners and TV owners. Why not restrain yourself, pick up a book, write a few words and listen to some music.

At least, let the children feel that their parents have a kind of self-improvement motivation and upward mood.

The tutor is not far away, and the parents are in sight. Now that we have played the role of parents, why not play this role more fully? The results you will get in the future will exceed your expectations. Why not give it a try?