The China Higher Education Equity Research Group recently released a report that in the field of higher education in China, the gap between urban and rural students is widening, and the proportion of rural students in famous universities is decreasing. Why is the proportion decreasing? The reason is simple-rural students can't afford to go to school. The high tuition fees of colleges and universities in China have become a high-speed rail threshold for rural students. Rural students who can't get through can only reluctantly put away the admission notice and wander outside the threshold to be "earth steamed buns".

When did China's higher education gradually become "aristocratic education"? As far as I know, this trend probably began when China began to implement educational reform and industrialization. "Education industrialization", an originally austere institution of higher learning, was pushed into the rolling trend of the market overnight, and the brand of "education industry" was hung up. Education has become a commodity, and universities have become an industry, so we have to follow suit and bring high consumption, which makes poor students in rural areas miserable overnight.

This school is not a charity. If it is labeled as "industry", it will bear the pressure of market competition. Schools are forced to efficiently supply the results to the big market competition, and scientific research funds are indispensable to produce scientific research results. How can the weak seedlings subsidized by the state scientific research bear the burden of large-scale competition under the tide of industrialization? In order to get more funds and more abundant school operating costs, students will eventually be asked for them. To a certain extent, high fees are the inevitable result of educational industrialization, and it is also the embarrassment that everyone who advocates educational industrialization has to face.

So the culprit is the industrialization of education. Should education be industrialized? We should all think about the purpose of education itself. Education is a very simple concept at the beginning. Confucius, with his disciples, toured the mountains, pointed to the passing river and lamented the time and life. With his words and deeds, and with a passion of "teaching people tirelessly", he influenced countless students who followed him and sowed the seeds of generations of Chinese studies in China. During the Anti-Japanese War, the National The National SouthWest Associated University was short of materials, and professors such as Zhu Ziqing and Feng Youlan also built dormitories with students and cultivated vegetable fields. What's more, virtue is like orchid, which is education, and this is called "being a teacher". In addition to making people literate and learn knowledge, education is more important to cultivate people's character, which requires educators to be broad-minded and noble. But "industry" and "profit-seeking" coexist. Driven by interests and lured by money, how can we keep the purity of educators? The industrialization of education has blocked the way for rural students to go to college with a thin tuition notice. Is this educating people? What did our so-called "education" give them besides learning the word "unfairness"? Yes, we make them realize the unfairness of education. Then what is the need to expand the scope to the injustice of society and life? So what kind of people will be "educated" for our society in this environment?

Educational industrialization is a deformed product of the market-oriented era. Education cannot and should not be industrialized, at least according to China's current national conditions. We call for fairness in education and hope that the market will loosen education and let it return to its true colors.