Derek Burke, the former president of Harvard University, is a famous contemporary American jurist, sociologist and higher educationist, and enjoys a high reputation in the education field. He served as president of Harvard University for 20 years.
He once said a famous saying:
If you think the cost of education is too high, try the price of ignorance.
Charles Munger, Buffett's golden partner, repeatedly emphasized the importance of lifelong learning in his Poor Charlie Collection, which wrote:
If we don't study for life, we won't achieve anything. With the knowledge we have, we can't go very far in life.
Yes, I don't know when the whole society has been telling you such a story of struggle: tell you that you can't work hard.
In fact, everyone knows how cool it is not to work hard now!
It's cool to go home and eat delicious games without working overtime at the moment;
If you can't cook at the moment, it's cool to order a takeaway brush Taobao;
If I don't study now, it's cool for me to play games under the covers!
People of any age will find pleasure in indulgence, and even terminally ill patients will feel happy because they secretly smoke a cigarette.
Although I am indulging in life, this indulgence is very cool.
Therefore, if you don't work hard and force yourself to study, you can have fun and play games and brush Tik Tok, and you don't want to spend time with your children to study. Compared with those parents who accompany their children to study in class all day, this is a paradise life.
But are you sure you can tolerate ordinary children, and can your children accept themselves as an ordinary person?
In fact, happiness is a philosophical thing that is difficult to distinguish, but it has to be mentioned. After all, this is everyone's ultimate goal.
What highly educated, good job, high income, etc. Behind these appearances is the desire to be happy, so what really determines a person's happiness?
Many writers have interpreted and explained it. If you read enough, you will find:
Happiness must be closely related to two indicators-dignity and freedom.
Needless to say, dignity is inseparable from a person's virtue and social status. It's no use being virtuous. The class you live in deeply affects the dignity you gain. This is the law of class.
What about freedom?
Everyone has free will, but the freedom that this society gives you is limited. Wealth and status determine a great degree of freedom, which we have to admit, unless you expect to retire early and retire to the mountains.
Go online and see how dissatisfied and helpless young people are in the face of "career and life that died at the age of 20", "social indifference" and "the era of ordinary life".
What does a young man think when he has suffered dozens of times more failures than others because of a resume?
The more ignorant people are, the more they will make excuses for themselves.
Remember the top liberal arts scholar who told the truth about society?
"It is increasingly difficult for children in rural areas to enter good schools. Children from middle-class families whose parents are diplomats like me are still born in big cities like Beijing. ...
This determines that I can take many shortcuts when studying. "
Every sentence is worrying. How many people start to be angry with reality and complain about the feelings of others, but they also turn a blind eye to another part of reality.
So many people use this as an excuse: accept fate, anyway, it will be like this for a lifetime.
But there is always another part of people who are still shedding their blood in this reality that they can't see the future clearly, and are still performing stories of killing dragons with blood.
Perseverant people stand out from this reality that can't see the future and reach another part of reality.
In this part, fate has many fish escaping from the net, many doors of opportunity are open, and countless hope elves follow.
Just like the last sentence of Beijing liberal arts college entrance examination champion said:
Knowledge doesn't necessarily change fate, but it can't change fate without knowledge.
Many people think that working hard since childhood is an overly utilitarian thing, dehumanizing human nature and depriving them of "happiness".
But in fact, except for a few extreme cases, all efforts have nothing to do with utility, it is just a choice.
We can often see such statistics: in a survey on the educational level of 500 senior executives of listed companies, 84% of the senior executives have higher academic qualifications, and 48% come from 985 prestigious schools.
The faculty of 985 University is much stronger than that of 2 1 1 University, not to mention other universities.
The more prestigious schools there are, the more libraries and documents there are, and the collection index represents "dry goods".
The top ten universities in China are all 985 universities. In addition, 985 schools can provide more hardware facilities and communication platforms.
If you continue to study undergraduate, the treatment will be even different. In many "985" colleges and universities, the proportion of exemption is very high, which is staggering. Half of the students in a class are in graduate school, or even more than half.
Studying abroad is also an "alternative way" that young people are keen on.
When applying for studying abroad, there are also some "hidden rules", that is, paying attention to the students' school background and whether they belong to the "985" of key universities.
Not to mention employment, take 20 12 as an example:
Over 90% of the national 100 top listed companies choose 985, 2 1 1 colleges and universities for "campus recruitment" every year;
There are less than 10 top 100 enterprises in non-key (two or less) universities.
Although it is biased to evaluate only by diploma, if it is measured by ability, enterprises can't afford the cost, so they can only use a simple way with low error probability to screen.
These are the prices you pay for neglecting education.
And these things point to many aspects of life, which are not utilitarian at all. This is a person's request and responsibility to himself, representing the goals and ideals of young people.
As long as you are working hard, there are infinite possibilities in life.
Race against time, break through in probability, and be a fish through the net in God's hands.
I can't see the world clearly.
The news that "Peking University graduates sell pork" has been talked about for many years. Many people think: What if Peking University graduates? Why not sell pork? I graduated from elementary school and sold it.
But what they don't know is that the name of the Peking University student who sells pork is Lu Buxuan.
There was a man named Bobby Chen who first discovered his greatness:
A stall sells 1.2 pigs a day, which is quite remarkable; It's amazing that this boy can sell 12 pigs a day.
Chen Sheng later established the Butcher School in cooperation with Lu Buxuan. Later, they opened hundreds of chain stores, and both Lu Buxuan and Chen Sheng were worth over 100 million yuan.
Coincidentally, after graduating from Yale University, Qin, an international student, became a village official in Hengshan County.
Many people scoff at this:
"Must be in Yale, otherwise how to be a village official? I don't know a word, I can also be a village official ... "
Later, Qin used his personal resources at Yale to start the "Black Soil Wheat Field" project. Use the financial knowledge learned at Yale, introduce capital and marketing team, and develop the commercial industry in the village.
As a result, he became the most beautiful village official in China.
There is an article that says:
After reading 985,211,you will know that the theory of reading uselessness is deceptive.
985,211These people not only have the ability and strength to enter better enterprises and platforms.
Even in the industry that sells pork, peanuts and melon seeds without any threshold, they have a great chance to do better.
The so-called useless reading theory and the poor quality of graduates from famous schools are all examination machines, which are actually extreme examples.
Ignorant people like to defend themselves with minimal probability events under the banner of tiger skin and maliciously guess others.
Never try.
So, what is the purpose of education and learning?
Is it to get high marks? College entrance examination?
No, absolutely not.
At least, it's not just that.
Reading is not just about mixing a college diploma, but also opening up an open world.
Reading is to make you a warm, interested and thoughtful person;
Is to let you have a calm heart in the ups and downs of life, so that you can spend those long and dark years alone in the future without regrets;
Reading is to talk with your lover in the future, not only rice, oil, salt and vinegar tea, but also piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and hops.
No matter how exquisite the vase is, it will be broken one day, and no matter how beautiful the face is, it will be old one day. Only the books you have read, if you have read them, will gradually accumulate in your body and become your wealth.
Read more books, and you will find that the world you have never noticed before is so vivid. Outside the mobile phone screen, Qian Shan is full of water.
Read more books, and you will find that no matter how big the trouble is, it is just a drop in the ocean of knowledge.
Even if you end up in trouble and wash away the lead, you will have different feelings in the face of the same job;
Faced with the same family chores, you will have different moods;
Cultivate the same offspring, and you will have different qualities.
This is the world's greatest reward for those who study hard and attach importance to education.
Hard work is tiring, educating children is tiring, and accompanying children to grow up is tiring, but it must be worth it.
Don't be afraid of fatigue, time, cost and trouble.
Every choice has a price. Don't try the price of ignorance, it will be miserable.