Education is a consumer product in China

I read about Ice Point Zhang Guimei Girls School, the promotion rate is high and the principal is selfless. Students are taught from 6am to 12pm, with only 10 minutes to eat.

A few details stood out.

  1. Zhang Guimei like a big long. Dormitory building 2 floors above the door open for years, Zhang Guimei any time into the house to find students with mobile phones, see the student diary also turned. One time, Zhang Guimei turned to a girl to write a love letter to a boy, she called the girl to the front, let her stop dating. The girl was angry and said it was illegal for her to flip through her diary.

“Bullshit, it’s my place,” Zhang Guimei said.

2, There are no sex education classes at the school. A sex knowledge counseling teacher asked if they needed support, Zhang Guimei told them to “go away.” “It’s already very over the top on the phone, still need to teach?”

  1. Some students gave Zhang Guimei the nicknames “Zhou Pai Pi,” “Devil,” and “Midnight Rooster.”

4, a girl did not speak to her father for four or five years, a singing chorus, Zhang Guimei picked up her father from the mountains, let the girl stand behind her father and sing “my old father”, the father listened to cry, father-daughter relationship improved a lot. For girls who don’t know any better, Zhang Guimei will just make the girl kneel down to her mother.

After reading this, I thought to myself that all the middle-class people who praised Zhang Guimei’s girls’ school would never send their own children to this school. But any of their own children who come across such a principal in their lives would probably go online and post big words about it. But just because those girls are the children of the poor, this type of education is justified. It’s because only in this way can the girls from the grassroots society change their destiny.

So education is definitely a consumer product in China. Different classes consume different products.

The middle class has been fighting for half of their lives so that their children don’t get the education of the poor.

Some people say that all of China’s top tycoons, with the exception of Li Baidu and Zhang Sohu, are products of China’s crammed education system. But without exception, these top tycoons have sent their children abroad to get an education, rather than receiving the crammed education in China that made them successful once upon a time.
Why? Because they can afford a better education now.

Further reading.

The important thing is not whether to turn over the diary or not, whether to make it a rule to go to bed at 10 p.m. or whether students should develop their own set of routines, whether to brush up on the questions or project-based education, whether to learn and think or have fun. It’s about recognizing that “you have value, you really do have value,” or adding a layer of encouragement from the authority, “I like you.

It may or may not be good to get the kids up in the morning for a morning run. Project-based inspirational education may be good, or it may be bad. It’s a culture, and it has a lot to do with the social context, the way it’s implemented, the child’s personality and talents, the different priorities of rights, and the social awareness of rights.

But what is almost always bad is “you have no value”. Whether you are a full-time mother or an office worker, you may be perceived as “worthless” and be repeatedly judged and belittled as such by society, your husband or your boss. Some women also want to retreat to their families because they are repeatedly deemed worthless, devalued, and marginalized in society, whether it’s because nurturing is a real source of hope and value, or because love feels valued, or because of the misconception that one-on-one relationships are more controlled and less uncertain.

Middle-class families or wealthy people who invest a lot of money and energy in consumer goods like education don’t necessarily acknowledge that “you have value” for their children. There are also many who are soft-spoken, laissez-faire on the surface, and harsh on the inside. Just like the rich, who have more than enough food and clothing, but do not necessarily respect the value of full-time wives or emotional labor, sometimes they just tolerate the existence of “useless things” more. Sometimes we just tolerate the existence of “useless things” more.

To talk abstractly about whether or not it’s right to turn in your diary is to act as if some practice is objectively more civilized, or as if anyone is necessarily more intelligent and better able to see their fate than a child. That is not the case. It’s hard to say whether “control” might be accompanied by encouragement and approval, or “pleasure” by denial and neglect. The key is to believe that you hunt, you gather fruits, you are all important, all have your talents and achievements and irreplaceable, and all may unfold your kind of vision.

Because you have value, I won’t go through your diary, I respect your wishes. Or, because you have value, and I really don’t want you to be dating “someone nearby” on your phone today, I will value you, withhold your phone, and help you get out of here and realize your potential value. That’s the most important thing. That’s the opposite of PUA, treating people like jewels.