Chapter 2959 The starting line of life

When it comes to education, people like Zhou Buqi, Aunt Xue, and Ning Yaxian are all laymen.

There is nothing but rhetoric.

However, after a brief discussion, the three of them basically reached a consensus, that is, they cannot blindly believe in this set of happy education in the United States. This thing is actually a screening tool for social class. Those social elites and experts from all walks of life have accumulated a lot of knowledge since childhood and have grown up little by little.

The more ignorant you are, the happier you are.

The conditions of the Zhou family are of course impeccable. They can get whatever they want, and Zhou Buqi can provide the best resources for his children. However, he does not want the children to turn into happy pigs. When choosing the direction of education, he must be ruthless and strictly manage them so that they can receive a better and harder education.

In fact, Zhou Buqi can always feel it when doing business in Europe and the United States these years.

Many young people in Europe and the United States break down easily. Many things are actually trivial. Even among some young people in China, there are many such people.

Girls jumped out of buildings when they fell out of love; boys jumped out of buildings when their marriage proposals failed; boys jumped out of buildings when they had quarrels with parents and teachers; and failed to invest in buying a house, so they jumped off buildings.

The endurance is really bad.

The value of life is too low.

One of the important reasons for psychological fragility and poor endurance is that children have been pampered since childhood, lack training in setbacks, have no experience of pain and failure, and have not developed self-strength from the inside out to resist stress from an early age.

Zhou Buqi felt that he should be cautious in this regard.

This is not his area of ​​expertise.

He didn't dare to express his opinions randomly.

Fortunately, he had planned well in the early stage and was able to catch Teacher Wen.

Wen Zhixia is an educator, and she has a strong voice in this field.

After dinner, the family committee met, mainly to discuss children's education.

Wen Zhixia first talked about the fundamental meaning of education, "Education here in the United States is quite different from that in China. Education in China is mainly about teaching cultural knowledge and is to cope with exams. Education in the United States teaches It is not about cultural knowledge, mathematics, physics and chemistry, but about cultivating a child's sound personality from an early age, and guiding children to get along well with each other and communicate fluently. It is more about teaching how to be a good person. In fact, both ideas are correct, and they are useful for many ordinary people. As for families, they do not have the ability to develop their children in an all-round way, so they must make choices in the structural design of mass education.”

After saying this, Zhou Buqi understood and said with a smile: "We are not an ordinary family."

Wen Zhixia said: "Yes, so we must go in both directions together. We all say that domestic children's education is too stressful, and American children are happy and relaxed... This is really a huge misunderstanding. Only children from lower-class families in the United States are It will be very happy and relaxing. Children from elite families are also very tired and hard-working. They study this and that every day, and enroll in various extracurricular classes, interest classes, and cram schools. They are actually no different from children in China.”

Ning Yaxian smiled and said: "That's right. How can a child do it if he doesn't study?"

Senior Sister Zhen Yu said softly: "The extracurricular tutoring market in the United States is about 6 billion U.S. dollars a year, which is much smaller than that in China. This is because the group of people who receive extracurricular education in the United States is too small. Most children in the country basically They all received tutoring outside of school when they were growing up, but few American children have had this experience.”

"Huh?" Zhou Buqi immediately paid attention, "What's the average?"

Zhen Yu chuckled and said: "If we take the average, the cost of extracurricular tutoring here in the United States must be higher. In domestic tutoring, children are sent to extracurricular training institutions. The habit here in the United States is to hire tutors. One-to-one private lessons at home are of course more expensive.”

The Zhou family's situation is special and it is really inconvenient to invite the teacher to their home.

So Wen Zhixia took Nian Nian to piano lessons and went to the teacher's house.

However, this is also a one-on-one private lesson.

Private lessons not only provide better educational results, but also provide "confidentiality" and allow you to grow secretly.

Zhen Yu added, "The extracurricular tutoring I'm talking about refers to the extracurricular tutoring market, which does not include interest classes such as basketball, piano, gymnastics, and programming. It refers to tutoring for knowledge outside professional schools, mainly English, The domestic extracurricular market for courses such as history, mathematics, biology, physics, and chemistry is about 100 billion U.S. dollars. This includes all extracurricular training fields. Looking only at the extracurricular tutoring market, the domestic extracurricular tutoring market is about 18 billion U.S. dollars, which is about 18 billion U.S. dollars. The gap is not big.”

Wen Zhixia knew this very well. She had been engaged in such a job before, "Well, the most expensive domestic off-campus tutoring is in artistic and professional fields, such as model step training, singing training, violin training, etc. , one class costs thousands of dollars. Off-campus tutoring for primary and secondary school students is actually very cheap, and most families can afford it. This is not the case in the United States, where many private tutoring models are used. Middle-class families attach great importance to education, but it is difficult for them to afford this huge education expense.”

Zhen Yu is the one who knows the United States best among the family members. She said slowly: "Yes, it is almost impossible for a middle-class American family with an income of more than 100,000 US dollars a year to have the financial strength to provide more educational resources for their children. Ask for a tutor. It is almost a privilege for elite families. This is destined that the offspring of the elite will still be in the elite class. This is actually very bad and is a huge injustice in society. Only the model of the domestic off-campus education and training industry can better demonstrate social fairness. sex."

Wen Zhixia smiled and said: "However, there are exceptions. Asian families...mainly from China, Japan and Korea, attach great importance to education. Even middle-class families will spend most of their family expenses to provide the best for their children. Education. To judge whether a school’s educational environment is good or not, it just depends on how many Asian students there are. The more Asians there are, the better the school is; the more black people there are, the worse the school is.”

"That's it..."

Zhou Buqi was thoughtful, and his thoughts suddenly flew away.

"Huh?" Shi Jinglin didn't know much about education, so she didn't talk much in the family meeting. But now she saw Zhou Buqi's wandering mind, and her face changed, and she said angrily: "You are distracted! What are you thinking about? Yes. Aren’t you thinking about doing business again? Your children’s education is not more important than your making money?”

Zhou Buqi felt guilty and quickly coughed and said, "No, I'm listening. Well, what Teacher Wen and Senior Sister Zhen Yu said are very good. I think there must be someone who understands and listens to this kind of thing. . Teacher Wen is an expert, so I should base my opinions on what she means. I don’t understand anything, so I’m just giving random instructions.”

Shi Jinglin rolled her eyes at him and said, "Obviously, I was distracted. Did you come up with another idea to make money?"

Zhou Buqi laughed haha.

My heart says you know so much!

Wen Zhixia pursed her lips and said softly: "Actually, this knowledge for children when they were young is very simple, well... it mainly consists of three aspects. The first is to learn team skills in school. In this regard, American schools are better than domestic ones. The school has more advantages. There are more opportunities for students to play among themselves, there are more social practice activities in the school, and there are many group outings and summer camps, which are very meaningful and allow children to have a basic understanding of adapting and socializing in a team. Ability."

"Um."

Zhou Buqi refocused on the topic of the family meeting and felt that Teacher Wen's words were better.

"Second, it's personal ability." Wen Zhixia seemed to have planned it a long time ago, so he was very organized. "Learn cultural knowledge well. In fact, it doesn't matter what you learn. Many courses are actually not used in society. What's important is It is the process of learning, which is personal growth and self-learning. Children with good academic performance actually mean that they have good personal abilities. Especially in the age of technology, there are always new things and new industries. This means that children who study well can learn about new industries faster and adapt to the new era faster. This is actually the advantage of the domestic education system, which has obvious advantages in emerging industries. It has been reflected at the talent level. Our children cannot lack this aspect of education.”

Ning Yaxian said: "I also think we should combine it. It is best to send the children back to China every summer vacation so that they can experience the competition and fierce learning atmosphere in the domestic education system. It is not a bad thing."

Wen Zhixia said softly: "Yes, the one-on-one private tutoring model here in the United States is not necessarily better than large classes. In large classes, teachers cannot take care of every student. Only this kind of teacher's irresponsibility can inspire Students' subjective initiative allows them to study on their own to make up for their shortcomings. Moreover, taking a large class can stimulate the spirit of comparison. Some people understand a knowledge point as soon as they hear it, and some people don't understand it. If you are not convinced, you will work harder. This is an irreplaceable advantage of one-to-one personal training.”

The domestic extracurricular tutoring market is mainly for the public, and most families can afford it.

This must be a large class model, with a dozen or even dozens of children studying together.

One-on-one personal training is really expensive.

This inevitably lacks popularity.

Zhou Buqi said: "Well, competition is good, and competition can have internal motivation. Here in the United States, there are one-to-one tutoring, door-to-door tutoring... This is a monopoly of educational resources. Monopoly will stifle innovation and create a flat mentality. , it will lead to internal self-corruption, which is not good.”

Shi Jinglin snorted.

Zhen Yu also rolled her eyes at him.

I think he is a bit crazy and applies ideas from business management to the education of his children.

Wen Zhixia said: "The third point is interest classes. The choice in this area must have a certain tendency towards the upper class. Art classes can be piano, violin or pipa and guzheng, but they cannot be singing, dancing or model catwalks; if If you like sports, you can choose tennis, equestrian, or golf, but don’t choose football, basketball, or rugby.”

After saying this, Zhou Buqi felt more and more the stratification of the education structure in Europe and the United States, and nodded, "The sports of the British royal family, besides horse racing, are golf. Only children from ordinary families play football. It's different. Children’s interests and hobbies determine different social circles. Children’s education is really the starting point of life!”