From the video, I can see the anxiety of Indian parents about education (and also the shadow of Chinese parents). In order to allow their children to go to the best school possible, parents have tried every means: buying school district housing and sending their children to expensive The tutoring institution, committed himself to the upper social circle that he could not fit in, tried bribery... In the end, he even did not hesitate to fabricate the identity of poverty to deceive a poor school. It seems absurd, but it actually happens. Whether it is sky-high school district housing or college entrance examination immigration, it really happens around us. For the child to enter a better school and circle, he will do everything. Only in this way can our children win at the starting line!
The starting line, which actually reflects the anxiety of parents brought about by the continuous increase in the requirements for talent ability under the great employment pressure. Only if my child is more talented than others, has a better social circle, and goes to a school with a better education, can he survive in this society better.
Sometimes when I see criticisms of China's test-oriented education system, I think, while advocating quality education: to let children develop in an all-round way, to be proficient in all aspects of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, math Olympiad, and programming, while requiring children to get high scores in exams. Some people may say that this is a problem with the exam-oriented education system. Schools only teach how to take exams and do not teach these skills. I don't want my child to fail to get into a good school without a good education, and I don't want him to have high grades and low abilities. This is a very contradictory thing. Educational resources are limited, and it is impossible at this stage to maximize the abilities of all children through schools. As shown in the film, quality education in India only exists in a few high-class private aristocratic schools, and poor families can only use the absurd method of lottery to beg their children to have the opportunity to enter these institutions.
In contrast, at this stage, China's college entrance examination system, which is mainly based on test-oriented education, can see more of the word fairness. Maybe the test-taking will bring about not so much improvement in students' abilities, but at least he guarantees that every child has the right to improve himself and receive education. Only quality education that guarantees fairness can be education that can serve all children. If quality education at this stage needs to sacrifice the most basic educational rights of most children, it will become a noble quality that only a few capitalist children can accept. education, then I would prefer to see exam-oriented education that upholds the four characters of "educational fairness" become the mainstream. However, after keeping the red line of education fairness, gradually improving the quality of education is a reasonable way to universalize quality education, which is what the national education reform is doing now.
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