It is a great miracle that every person has come into this world, and the reason why I say this is because it has given an individual a life in the vast universe and the qualification of being a human being in the vast universe. Therefore, each individual should cherish his or her own life, live autonomously like a human being, and not be trained by Pavlov's experimental method of education to become a "little sheep" who can only reflex.
The meaning of education
Conant, former president of Harvard University, once said, "Education is the part that survives when you forget everything you have learned." The responsibility of education is, first and foremost, to teach students how to think. The university provides every student with an opportunity to really think: to get away from society, to get away from the constraints of family influences and career plans, to stand at a distance and look at the whole world with a critical eye, and to take a breather from adult life, which helps us live more alert, more responsible, more free, and more complete.
"Some Chinese universities, including Peking University, are cultivating refined egoists," Qian said. These people, despite their high IQs, are worldly hypocritical and are especially adept at using the system to achieve their goals. If the power is in the hands of these people, it will bring more harm to the country than the average ** filthy official, and our education system is cultivating a large number of such 'poisonous poppies'. ”
Refined egoist
Qian Lao believes that the real elite education should have the spirit of independence, freedom and creativity, and should have a sense of social responsibility, but the education of pragmatism, utilitarianism and nihilism is cultivating a group of absolutely exquisite egoists.
The so-called absolute is that one's own interests become the only driving force for all their words and deeds, and everything they do for others and society is investment. The so-called refinement means that they have a high IQ and upbringing, and everything they do is reasonable, legal and impeccable on the surface. But they are also amazingly sophisticated, often make loyal gestures, know how to cooperate and perform, and are good at using the power of the system to maximize their own interests, and become members of vested interest groups.
Refined egoists are mostly superior in IQ and emotional intelligence, but their character and character are generally flawed, such as lack of core values, such as lack of empathy, such as lack of meaning in life, some people call this symptom "hollow heart disease". They only charge for the sake of profit, have no weaknesses and bottom lines, and can disguise themselves casually to achieve their goals, but from a certain point of view, they are also very pitiful, unable to perceive and return beautiful feelings. This kind of refined egoism is due to its own character, and it is also the birth of modern society and education, starting from family education and entering the formation of society.
The delicate egoist is a seemingly beautiful poppy, beautiful is beautiful, poisoned in society and poisoned in the future.
Obedient sheep
The "obedient sheep" are a group of smart, hardworking, unassertive people who are being coerced into working toward the same goal. Their advantages are obvious, and so are their disadvantages. The existing utilitarian education mechanism continuously outputs excellent sheep of the same type.
Good sheep are afraid of failure and therefore have a herd mentality.
Parents are tired of life in order for their children to have a good school condition. A dazzling array of interest classes, training clubs, fill up the children's spare time, from morning to night, small children, can not have a childlike childhood, can not play as they like, children are happy? Have parents also considered their children's feelings, students are instilled with the idea that they can only succeed, not fail, and if they fail, if they don't meet their parents' expectations, if they don't do something, they will feel that they are a waste. And in fact, do elite students really know what they want? They have never known themselves well, and they are even confused about the future, and after graduation, they do not dare to jump out of the boxed life. They are accustomed to being arranged, they do whatever the teacher says, and they accept everything their parents say, and they dare not have their own ideas.
The utilitarian education system is expanding social inequality, hindering social mobility, solidifying class privileges, and creating a socially isolated elite to lead society, and ushering in an era of meritocracy that is passed down from generation to generation, suppressed, self-enclosed, and self-reinforcing, and breeds an elite mentality.
Creating oneself, understanding oneself, and cultivating independent thinking ability are the biggest shortcomings and shortcomings of current utilitarian education. Beneath the cloak of the pursuit of security is the lack of a sense of direction and the lack of wanting to lose opportunities, all of which stem from the fear of failure and the intolerance of making mistakes. When you are not allowed to make mistakes in your life, the only thing you can do is not give them any chance. All this makes people extremely risk-averse, which is one of the reasons why utilitarian education hinders personal growth.