Recently, I read a media survey report: among more than 3,000 interviewees, about 75% think that family background determines a person's career development to a great extent, while only nearly 30% agree that struggle can change life. This means that only three out of ten people realize the significance of struggle and believe that struggle can keep them away from their parents' life trajectory, thus achieving better social status and career development than their parents.
This is a sad survey result. While we advocate changing fate with knowledge and struggle, many people still find that reality is so difficult to change and so powerless, and it gives people such disappointment and helplessness.
This "hereditary" in social status and career development is the embodiment of the solidification of social strata. The division and solidification of social strata in China is gradually drawing a stagnant picture, and the channels for the lower class to circulate to the upper class are getting narrower and narrower, so it is impossible and extremely difficult for the "poor second generation" to realize their dream of becoming a "rich generation".
Education, the only choice that once changed fate, has fallen into a low tide in its ability to promote social mobility. When the society is constantly questioning the education system, people gradually find that the current education system in China can no longer bear the dreams of children from poor families, and the "hereditary" poverty has become quite helpless. This kind of "hereditary" didn't start from the moment we graduated from college and stepped into the society. From the moment we entered university, high school and even kindergarten, this kind of "hereditary" began to go hand in hand.
The strong have occupied rich resources from the beginning, thus leading all the way, while the weak have to make countless efforts to "sit down and drink coffee with the innate strong."
I remember Yang Dongping, an educator. When investigating the fairness of higher education in China, the conclusion is that the proportion of rural students in key universities in China has been declining since the 1960s. This conclusion means that the relationship between a person's birth and education level is getting closer and closer, and it is more and more difficult for a person's fate to be changed through education.
This is a universal reality that more and more people can feel, and all levels of society are calling for educational equity. However, when the determination and slogan are so bright, the reality is still disappointing. Some time ago, someone mentioned the Macheng desk incident, which reflected the great difference between urban and rural education. These situations not only appear in rural and urban marginal groups, but also suffer from unfair education.
The recent dispute over the conditions of college entrance examination for children living in different places has exposed the inequality of treating students differently in household registration. As a group that has contributed to the development of the city for many years, it is extremely unreasonable that their children are blocked from the college entrance examination because of hukou, whether their parents have stable jobs and so on, and even their qualifications for taking the college entrance examination are in jeopardy.
For a long time, we have been struggling with educational equity. For the complicated situation, some people may expect a radical change, which can make everything beautiful and smooth at once. This is a fairy tale.
Even Qian Liqun, a famous humanist and expert on Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren, believes that the essence of education is subtle, and the reform of education should follow the principle of "slow progress" and long-term struggle. It will be a protracted war to promote education equity, and then smooth and broaden the channels for the lower class to flow to the upper class. In this battle, the most sad thing is not the time spent, but the crushing of many expectations and the disillusionment of dreams in this process. Just like the data mentioned at the beginning, only a few of the ten peers firmly believe in the importance of struggle and the possibility of realizing their dreams.
In fact, the most terrible place in reality is the broken dream. If you give in, you will always give in to these things called "life" and "life". Many people who have not inherited wealth and status from their parents are faced with a heavy reality and a distant future.
For these people, changing their destiny means moving forward with heavy burdens. On the way forward, dreams should not be the weight of shoulders, but the wings that help you fly. It can alleviate the pain of reality and let you see the meaning of struggle.
In short, in any case, please keep a cool head and dream upward when carrying heavy loads.