From other angles, this documentary is comprehensive in content.
The first and second episodes of Mao Tan Factory, the representative epitome of education in China, are more extensive grassroots+repetition (also a very common phenomenon).
The third episode is about second generation migrant workers, who grew up in Shanghai, and it is the epitome of thousands of stories in the process of urbanization in China.
The fourth episode goes back to the more extreme grassroots, the county No.1 middle school in poverty-stricken areas, representing the vast number of poor rural areas.
The fifth episode talks about the tide of studying abroad, which represents the middle class in China's booming big cities (first-tier, second-tier and developed areas)
The sixth episode is the three principals' own views on education, and they also see the diversification of basic education (high school stage) in our country.
This basically covers the basic education in China. Of course, what we are talking about here is the high school stage, and compulsory education follows the baton of the college entrance examination, so high school education can basically represent basic education to a great extent.
We can see that at the grassroots level, most students and families struggle for one or two books; I also saw students from the International Class of the High School Attached to the National People's Congress aiming at Yale University and finally spending time in the northwest. We have seen Liu Yangyang's uncle make up for her college tuition and living expenses (more than 10,000 yuan), and we have also seen students (undergraduates) studying in the United States spend 6.5438+0.5 million in four years. The so-called saving is not to travel or buy new clothes. We can not only see the main theme of exam-oriented education in many places, but also see the real quality education reform in the middle school attached to Peking University.
This is the real China, a multi-level, multi-dimensional and even multi-dimensional country. Although China is a country, it contains too many worlds. According to our administrative hierarchy, each of the six levels, namely, country, province, prefecture-level city, county, township and village, can basically form at least one dimension. Even more detailed distinctions can be made. First-and second-tier cities, for example, can be subdivided into at least four small levels (Beijing-Shanghai-Guangzhou-Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Chongqing and Chengdu, and other second-tier cities). The degree of economic and social development in different regions is different, and a direct reaction is the difference in people's living standards. Our people are made up of families. For a family, children's education is a major event, and the family will inevitably spend a lot of experience on it. In economically developed areas, people's living standards are relatively high and they can invest more in education, while in backward areas, the less disposable income, the less surplus they can invest in education.
I watched a few episodes of this movie about Li Li. Some barrage said that studying abroad was "embarrassing", so it can be judged that the netizen who sent the barrage should not know much about studying abroad, and there are no people who have been abroad in the circle of contacts. In fact, we know that people who go abroad are basically the middle class in big cities. These people are middle class and "ordinary people", not rich people. The population of this class is quite large, and it is conservatively estimated that it can basically reach 20 million to 30 million people (upper middle class in first-and second-tier cities), which is quite representative in China. However, although the total number is quite large, it is still a small part of the total population of China. As soon as the number of "four years 1.5 million" came out in the fifth episode, some people made a barrage to vomit, not to mention that for most fourth-and fifth-tier cities and smaller counties, towns and villages, even for most families in third-tier cities, such investment costs are still unimaginable. However, for many families in first-tier cities, the income level and savings can completely cover the expenses of an only child in the family for four years, 6.5438+0.5 million, and considering that the quality of undergraduate education in the United States is indeed much higher than that in China, it is still very reasonable to send the children out in this case.
Another phenomenon of education in China is the extreme concentration of resources. In fact, not only educational resources, but all resources in China are very concentrated, which is related to our overall system. It is an indisputable fact that resources are basically concentrated in developed areas. As far as education is concerned, the resources of good schools and excellent teachers are concentrated in big cities and developed areas. The uneven distribution of educational resources in different regions has caused differences in the starting line of children in different regions. From rural areas to towns, to counties, small and medium-sized cities, and then to first-and second-tier cities, the supporting educational resources are multiplying, and the differences in economic development level or income level make children's development present different levels.
Equality or fairness is a very difficult goal to achieve, especially in China with a large population and complicated social stratification. Different levels are basically different worlds. As mentioned in the documentary, we have 80 million poor people, which is about 6% of our total population, which is not large. But it basically reached the total population of Germany. They can form a "world". In this world, they can't imagine the living conditions of families who can easily pay 6.5438+0.5 million yuan for their children to go to college. What is even more frightening is that such "rich" families are only a small part of China's huge population base, but in absolute terms, this crowd is not small at all. The number of people in China whose personal assets exceed100000 has reached100000, and the families formed by these people can basically reach 3-4 million people. So the problem is that China has a large population base, so in absolute terms, there are many people at every economic level, which can basically form a small country (small world). Because the circle they live in is not just a circle of communication, but a small world they consider and are in their field of vision, they will have the illusion that "my circle, or my small world, is the whole picture of China". Although the rich also know that there are many poor people in China, those people will not appear in daily life, just some figures in the report; Ordinary citizens probably know that the rich second generation is addicted to money, but for them, it's just a joke in Weibo, and it doesn't touch the skin of reality. So I said that the social situation in China is multi-level, even multi-world, and there is not much overlap between different worlds. Therefore, as a China person, a basic understanding of the current situation of his country should be "China is multi-level and rich, and the absolute population of each level is very large."
Reflected in education, we can see all levels of sentient beings. However, what all sentient beings have in common is that everyone is striving for their own tomorrow and better development. It is meaningless to compare birth and achievement. It is almost impossible for Liu Yangyang in this film to see what the girl in the International Department of the High School Attached to the National People's Congress can see. However, she walked out of the mountain through her own efforts. As a normal student, it should not be difficult for her to settle in Xi 'an after graduation, and then her next generation will become Xi 'an citizens, and the growth and development of her children will be another world. Isn't this the family history of most big city residents now?
Think back to the early days of the People's Republic of China, what was the degree of urbanization and the population of China. At present, the urban population of China has reached more than 50%. What happened in the middle? Let's take Beijing for example. In the early days of the People's Republic of China, the population of Beijing was about 4.2 million. Let's call these people aborigines. During the first decade in People's Republic of China (PRC), more than 3 million foreigners came to Beijing to work. By the early 1960s, the population of Beijing had reached 7.4 million, and the main immigrants were the central authorities, the army and their families. After that, it experienced a slow natural growth stage, and by 1978, the population of Beijing reached 8.7 million. 1979- 1990 The population is growing steadily. After the resumption of the college entrance examination, due to the large number of colleges and universities in Beijing, many college graduates were assigned to work in Beijing after graduation, which also caused the population growth in Beijing at that stage. 11million population. By 2004, the permanent population in Beijing was close to150,000, some of which were local population produced by college graduates who had settled in Beijing for more than 20 years and married and had children, and the other part were migrant workers. Up to now, the permanent population in Beijing is 2 1 10,000, of which the registered population is10.3 million. 4.2 million aborigines were wiped out, most of whom were immigrants and their descendants who came to Beijing after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
This process in Beijing basically represents the urbanization process of major cities in China. Speaking of it, almost everyone in China, more than three generations, is basically a farmer with his back to the loess. In the decades of urbanization, the first people who came to the city were chosen by God? Let's have a good look. People who came to cities in their early years broke away from their agricultural status, either conquered the world with the * * * production party before the founding of the People's Republic of China, or had a relatively high education level (there were no self-employed households at that time, so how did you become a city hukou instead of a public office, which definitely required a certain degree of education). In the next generation, after the resumption of the college entrance examination, a large part of the students entering the city came from the grassroots (at that time, there were a large number of outstanding intellectuals at the grassroots level due to the Cultural Revolution). The descendants of these people have become the second and third generation of big city residents (also belong to them), and they were born to enjoy all the superior conditions and convenient resources of big cities. Then go back to those ancestors who left their rural hometown. These people became the first batch of urban immigrants with their qualifications and efforts, established the prosperity of today's cities and became the backbone of society. Is it unreasonable for these people to enjoy the fruits of their own development over the years for their descendants (children)? If the starting point of children in first-tier cities is different from that of children in rural areas, then counting up to three generations, everyone's starting line is the same, all facing the loess and facing the sky.
Therefore, the comparison of different individuals in the transition period is of little significance, and there is no need to feel sorry for the pluralistic and multi-level social status quo, which is the inevitable result of a large number of groups to a certain extent. From a microscopic point of view, everyone starts from their own starting point, goes forward bravely, and tries their best to get the best development they can. Although he may not be able to get to the starting point of some people in the end, there are still descendants after all. Just like Liu Yangyang in the film, her children's growing environment is not as good as that of girls in the middle school attached to the National People's Congress, but it is definitely much better than that of Liu Yangyang.
China is in the transition period of development, and its huge population has brought about a multi-level and multi-world social situation. However, as long as people from all walks of life strive to develop themselves, the whole China society will continue to develop and progress. In two or three generations, the overall social development level of China will go up, and most people will reach the middle class level. By then, not only will people's living standards improve, but their overall mentality will also mature.
Of course, this is self-talk regardless of external pressure. However, regardless of the external pressure, China people should unite ideologically and realize the diversity at different levels. Children who have grown up in developed areas and occupied resources with the efforts of several generations, if they only want to "immunize" or only have the ability to immunize, it is somewhat low. It is understandable to occupy other people's resources unconditionally since childhood, but in this case, you also have the obligation to help those who do not enjoy these resources and help them develop; And people from lower backgrounds should not compare the starting point and ending point of their generation with others. Develop yourself well, provide your own strength for the development of society, and let your future generations have better prospects.
This is to stand in your respective seats and do what you should do.