Translated…
“Ahhh, I can’t teach him, your student…isn’t, good for hire.”
Three years back, I’d introduced a former student to an old friend who works in the cram school industries to apprentice, I’d met him again recently, asked him about how my student was faring, and this, was the disappointing reply that I got.
“At first, I’d taught him, to understand the word roots first, and had him reread the examination booklets for the last three decades, but, after six months, these basic knowledge he still hadn’t gotten any better at it, he’d even complained to me about how I wouldn’t allow him to teach a class. Thought about it, it’s fine then, I’ll just let him, keep on being a drifting teacher.”
This, was a very disappointing news, because that student graduated from a namely university, looked fine, with fluent English skills, but, after he’d graduated, he’d gone into the banking industries, the trades, and the insurance companies, he couldn’t get the desired wages, plus his father fell ill, he’d come back to school, asked for my assistance.
I’d recalled how before I started teaching at a public school, I’d met M, who worked in the afterschool study field. M brings in a lot of money monthly, everybody envied how much he was making, but I knew, that he’d put in the hard work too, he has a ton of knowledge. Plus M was about to retire, he’d wanted to pass the knowledge he has, to a student, if I could get my student to take up under him, it should be helpful, to my student’s household economic difficulties. And still, my student failed once more, in how he wasn’t willing to take the advice of the elders.
Since I began part-timing in college, I’d worked as a skilled worker, in trades, advertising, news media, teaching……over TEN separate jobs, for the sake of survival, I’d seriously, “crossed over”, as I’m almost fifty, my biggest wish is: all the knowledge, I must learn it, professionally, by six months, I need to achieve small, and by three years I shall have made huge strides; but the prerequisite of this is “effective learning”. This what seemingly simple “effective learning” is actually, the key to replicate the levels of understanding.
In the age of “inequality of information”, who has more information, who will be successful sooner. And so, a lot of the parents passed along what took them an entire lifetime to understand, to pass the core values to their young, so the kids won’t have to go through the trial-by-error.
For instance, a student of the architecture major, his graduation project was “Urbanization of an old community in Beijing”, after I’d inquired, I’d learned, that his father worked in the construction business for twenty years in China, and knew what is needed in the field. Another student who majored in public health, his father, who’s a doctor, led him into the field, and now, he’s already, a successful plastic surgeon. As for a relative who was a foreman at a construction site, told me about how he’d helped his son become a foreman too. “I don’t have any other skills, but I can help him reach the top quickly, in my line of work.” My relative pinpointed the core of “replication of the caste order.”
In the past, we’d kept stressing, “Education is the best means to help the flow of the orders.”, but, Marx knew, the limits of education after testing had become the primary determinant of how much was learned, he’d believed, that “examinations are merely the baptism of knowledge by the bureaucracies.” And so, in today’s world where higher degrees means higher unemployment rates, don’t forget, having a “good enough moral standards” is a more useful mean, to push oneself up higher on the ladder.
And so, this, shifts the focus of education, because having a higher degree is no longer equivalent to being able to have a good job, having the skills now, is more important, which is why the technical high schools, the technical universities are now, more considered by the students of this upcoming generation.