Let me show you an article about New Oriental Xu Xiaoping. "xu teacher, does China admit that he does not recognize the academic qualifications of the University of Hong Kong?" I was a little annoyed by this student's old thinking, but I pretended to be gentle and considerate and said, who do you want to know? Li Ka-shing admitted that this is enough! It is enough for Hong Kong enterprises to admit it! ! Talent market recognition is enough! ! ! Not the country, not the Ministry of Education, not anyone who claims to have the right to decide your life and death-only the talent market, only the employer, and yourself as the main body of the talent market and the engine of the struggle machine. A few days after I finished this program, I met an academic problem related to "national identity". The story goes like this: a single woman in her early 30 s came to me through a friend and asked me about her desperate life. I worked as a department head in a foreign company, with an annual income of 6.5438+0.2 million RMB, neither more nor less. She is also good-looking, neither flashy nor bad. She is a junior college student in a day university in Beijing. This is the degree to which a country does not recognize it. After working for more than ten years, her dream, or nightmare, is to get a "recognized" degree from a country. At the age of 30, in order to get a university degree recognized by a country, she actually enrolled in a school and spent three years studying to realize this dream, or a nightmare. Through the twisted and twitching face of this unmarried woman, I can see that her 30-year-old youth should be beautiful and sexy. Through her country's "non-recognition" education, I saw the flowers that once bloomed on both sides of her life road and the blue sky that is still sunny. The country "does not recognize" her education, but the society recognizes her existence, the market recognizes her value, the customers recognize her reliability, and her youth is famous for her sexiness. The annual income of RMB 654.38+0.2 million has proved that her "academic qualifications not recognized by the state" may not be pure, but it is shining after all. Looking at her absolutely tragic illness and disability, I said with deep affection: "It doesn't matter whether the state admits it or not. You have made some achievements in the workplace, you have admitted yourself, and you have proved yourself, whether you admit it or not! " In the college entrance examination, the authority may be the admissions office; On campus, authority may be teachers and grades; But once you step into the society and enter the talent market, the authority is yourself. Of course, I know the importance of higher education and diploma, but when fate only gives you such a diploma, how to tap your unique advantages, set reasonable goals, and pursue and realize your specific dreams according to your current situation is the most effective way of struggle in life and the most reliable way to success. "How many college students have their diplomas recognized by the state, but they are not recognized everywhere; How many undergraduates can't find a way out after graduation, although the bachelor's hats on their heads shine with the light of national recognition; How many' good majors' students find it difficult to find a good job because of their wrong ideas; How many proud children in' good schools' cannot live a dignified life because of their weak quality and ability. These people are "recognized" by the state ... "Times are different and authority is changing. National recognition is no longer a guarantee of happiness; The country' does not' admit it, and it is no longer a successful Forbidden City. Life is beautiful but limited, and youth is fleeting. Instead of wasting your life and youth, it is better to get rid of the shadow of' the state does not recognize' from the deep heart, bravely go to the talent market to find your proven personal value, and boldly go to international educational resources to find opportunities to improve your knowledge and education ... In the talent market and international education, it is meaningless to get rid of the academic' national identity' that binds you and suffocates you in the iron house ... "Three articles. A mother, with her son who failed to study abroad, came to me for help with infinite despair. Her situation is that her son went abroad for two or three years and didn't study hard, but at the age of 24, he was finally admitted to a local university and entered the most famous, popular and highest employment rate hotel management major in this university. The partner of this hotel management major is a hotel management school in Switzerland. They didn't tell me the name of this Swiss hotel management school, so I can't comment. But from their statements, I only know two facts: 1, the hotel management major in this university is so popular that when my mother asked to change her major, the dean felt very puzzled! 2. The second fact is that this mother refused her son to study this favorite major. The reason why this major is very popular in the market turned out to be that the Swiss Hotel Management School was not recognized by the state! The mother's refusal hurt her son's enthusiasm for learning and blocked his way to study abroad. It also showed me a living case of self-mutilation because of outdated and absurd ideas. Looking at this tough and desperate mother and that handsome and gray son, I was silent and tears came out of my eyes. If the mother didn't call the government agency when deciding whether her son wanted to go to this tourism college, but asked Hilton Hotel, Sheraton Hotel, Hyatt Hotel, Marriott Hotel and Shangri-La Hotel about the status and reputation of Swiss Hotel Management College in the industry, this supposedly happy family would fall into yearning for a happy life after graduation, instead of falling into a desperate situation of asking me for help. Suddenly, I saw that besides infidelity, deception, violence, unfilial, poverty, illness and death, there was another enemy who refused to admit himself because of the lies of "national identity"! At this point, I have to continue to write and recall a section of my most cherished history, thus completing the mission of this article. The diploma of New Oriental, even the name "New Oriental College of Practical English"-an informal name-was not "recognized" by the state at that time and now. This graduation ceremony was attended by all the main leaders of New Oriental, and I was there. Delivered a speech on the spot with the theme: Authority is your own speech. It doesn't matter whether the country admits it or not. What matters is whether you admit it or not and whether it can be recognized by the market! Yu's students are also my students, so I shouted for the students in the audience and secretly felt guilty for them. Five or six years have passed. Many students in this class have made proud achievements in life without a diploma recognized by any country. Some of them have become famous teachers in New Oriental, some have become white-collar workers in the public relations department of L 'Oré al Company, some have found jobs in the French Embassy, some have stayed in New Oriental to teach for a while, and then they have gone out to set up their own children's English training institutions, all of which have done well ... I keep in touch with some of them and often feel proud and confused about their success-I often think that these young people may become social outcasts, complaining about their fate and despair, why can they? After their graduation, New Oriental never provided any direct help. Without a diploma, what do they rely on to achieve all kinds of convincing success in society? More than once, I proudly talked about these children with Yu and others, thinking and looking for evidence of their success: what do they rely on? They depend on themselves. These boys and girls have achieved success in life with their self-confidence, perseverance, self-improvement, self-esteem, courage to express and pursue, the little English skills endowed by New Oriental and the unique comprehensive quality of New Oriental! It is a resounding irony to become an era of difficult employment for college students! ..... This article actually involves two issues: the first is the academic qualifications of the country. The second is how individuals try to find opportunities in the current situation. The state's control over academic qualifications is an issue that I can't change and don't want to comment on. I just want to tell my students and readers a simple truth: the bleak autumn has passed, and the prosperous summer has arrived ... The day when the country "admits" to decide its own destiny has passed (or), and the era of creating happiness in life has arrived!