Education is a class game. When you struggle with the starting line, you have already lost.

He would love to start at the starting line. But where exactly is the starting line? ——Elias Canetti During the Qingming Festival holiday, the Indian film \”Starting Line\” was released nationwide. The film tells the story of the clothing store owner Raj and his wife who made all kinds of incredible efforts so that their daughter can enter a prestigious school. It is hilarious. The movie\’s box office exceeded 100 million in just three days after its release, and it also aroused widespread discussion on the Internet. After all, the starting point of children\’s life is an issue that most parents are concerned about. Interestingly, the English title of this movie is Hindi Medium, but the Chinese title is called Starting Line, which can be said to be very Chinese. When most people hear the word starting line, they often think not of the white line that athletes squat to prepare before the 100-meter race, but of their own children and their former selves. What is the starting line? The three words \”starting line\” succinctly summarize the educational philosophy of many Chinese parents, that is, they believe that life is a running race, with winners and losers. Some people run to the finish line barefoot, and some people drift past in a supercar. Although it is a race in life, the end point is not death, but success. In the movie, Pia’s mother Mita vaguely sets the end point at the stage when her daughter finds a good job. In order to reach this end, Mita decided to start her daughter from kindergarten. The best way is of course to receive an education from a prestigious school, successfully enter a prestigious university, and reach the pinnacle of life. When the couple found a consultant who helped their daughter enter a prestigious school, they unexpectedly received this answer: \”You are already late. Other families have booked classes here since the early stages of their wives\’ pregnancy.\” It seems that some people\’s lives are different. The starting line is even before life. The starting line becomes a parent relay race. Although the number of admissions to prestigious schools is limited, there seem to be an infinite number of parents who are eyeing it. In order to get his beloved daughter into a prestigious school, his father worked really hard. He queued in a long line of hundreds of people to get the application form, prayed to God for blessings, and even tried to bribe the principal at one point. Among the various actions that seemed funny but were actually sad, there were a few It is very consistent with our country’s national conditions. Buying a house in a school district It turns out that India also has a school district plan, but the school district houses in the movie are simply the \”conscience of the industry.\” The European-style villa has a quiet environment and the neighbors are all from the upper class. Compared with many old school district houses with a square meter of 90,000 per square meter in China, I feel that my father Raj has really made a profit. Elite style children want their children to become social elites in the future, and parents must also set an example. They should not wear anything that is not a famous brand. In order to be recognized as a famous brand by others, clothes and jewelry must have large LOGOs. Nowadays, many 80-year-olds Those born in the 1990s generally refuse to adopt such a fashionable style. In the movie, the Raj family was also corrected by a professional stylist and learned the low-key luxury line of \”less is more\”. Speaking English In India, whether or not you can speak English has become a significant difference between students in public schools and students in prestigious private schools. In the movie, Pia is ostracized by the children of the upper class because she speaks Hindi. For this reason, her mother requires her daughter to only use English in daily communication. It\’s not enough for the child to speak English. In the end, the father, who can\’t even spell \”swimming\”, has to stay up all night looking up the Indian-English dictionary to write recommendations for the child, so that he can barely get into a prestigious school.probability. After all these painstaking efforts, Raj\’s daughter still failed to enter a prestigious school because of his career. Although Raj claims to be a business tycoon, he cannot erase the fact that he was once a child from a poor family. In the eyes of the upper class, the nouveau riche may not be able to educate their children well. The lively battle for places in the school finally reveals its cruel truth: Behind the children\’s starting point is the relay race of parents working day and night. A good starting point in life is sometimes the joint efforts of generations of ancestors. In order to get a starting point and the future destiny of their children, the Raj couple could do anything, and in the end they had no choice but to pretend to be poor to get a spot as a poor student. To this end, they first moved to live in slums, crowded into buses with \”450 people\” like poor people to go to work in factories, and endured cheap assembly line jobs where even the number of times they could use the toilet was limited. You have to queue up to get water, you have to look at people\’s faces to buy rice, and you have to chase mice on the floor of a dilapidated house at night. After going through all kinds of torture, they finally succeeded, but they also indirectly took away the opportunity for their friend\’s son in the slums to go to school. Later, he regained his original intention and decided to drop out of school and go to a public school because he didn\’t want his daughter to grow up in such an unfair environment. Mita also gave up her dream of letting her daughter enter the upper class. She admitted that morality was more important than success and that there would be nothing wrong with her daughter becoming a person like her father in the future. Although the Chinese version of the movie \”Starting Line\” has ended, the story of \”Starting Line\” is still repeated every day in real life. The picture above is not a big gathering of wild camping enthusiasts, but a scene of parents setting up tents and queuing up five days in advance to grab a spot for kindergarten admission. However, most of those who can line up here are qualified for admission. Parents who do not have admission qualifications have no choice but to buy a house in the school district of 90,000 per square meter. If you can\’t even afford a house in the school district, you will have no choice but to use illegal means like Raj. In order for his granddaughter to go to a good school, an old man in Nantong found someone to forge the household registration book and the real estate certificate of the school district house. He was caught and brought to justice. He was eventually sentenced to a suspended sentence and fined 4,000. I wonder if his granddaughter will thank this person for almost eating for her. The grandfather who was a prisoner. However, all this is just the starting line in a child’s life. Nowadays, parents are no longer satisfied with the single starting point of schooling. They are \”expanding territory\” and constantly developing new starting points. It’s not enough to just be good at schoolwork, you also need to know several talents. Instruments like the piano are definitely a childhood nightmare for many children. If you can\’t master English anymore, it\’s best to know a few small languages. Of course, being able to be talented in literature and martial arts is the best of both worlds, so various training classes for taekwondo, fencing, swimming, etc. have also emerged. To exaggerate, even if there is a starting line in life, it is by no means a marathon. It is more like the feeling of a whole family overcoming obstacles and crossing a battlefield. Fortunately, not every parent is so crazy. Many people have different views on the starting line of life. Is there really a starting line in life? Point of view 1: Not only is it scientific, but it is also cruel. Many parents do not want their children to become famous and achieve great achievements. I just don’t want my children to follow their old path and spend all their energy trying to survive. After all, disabledThe social competition of coolness is an indisputable fact. If you don’t make unremitting efforts, you will soon be “eliminated”. The BBC once filmed a documentary \”Seven Years in the Life\”, which followed and filmed British children from 14 different classes, and conducted a current situation survey every seven years. As a result, only a very small number of children achieve a counterattack in life when they grow up, and most of them still stay in their original class. Since middle-class parents have better educational resources and educational environment, their children also have a better starting point. From this, it is not difficult to understand why many parents put in so much effort to give their children a good start, because they do not want to see their children struggling to pay for water, electricity, and rent when they grow up. Viewpoint 2: Life is not a marathon. However, there is a type of parent who does not believe in the starting line of life. After all, there is much more to life than achieving worldly success. For example, inner peace, dreams, close friends, happiness and satisfaction… These precious experiences do not need to be obtained through competition, and no training institution can provide them to you. Moreover, life is full of twists and turns. Who can guarantee that what we have will last forever, and what we don’t have will never be available? Rather than letting children grow up in anxiety, it is better to let them follow their own life script. Many people may have watched the TV series \”Tiger Mom and Cat Dad\” and were deeply impressed by the tiger mother played by Zhao Wei. However, the earliest prototype of the Tiger Mother can be traced back to Amy Chua, a Chinese mother. She once published a book \”Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother\” to describe her parenting philosophy. Amy Chua herself has created a very strict and excellent starting line for her two daughters. She does not allow her daughters to get lower than an A in any subject. The eldest daughter can read \”Little Women\” at the age of 3, and she is studying at Carnegie Hall at the age of 14. Play piano in music hall. The youngest daughter was forced by her mother to learn the violin and became the concertmaster at the age of 12. Seeing this, many readers may think it is another story about someone else’s child. Unfortunately, these two children from other families were very tired of their mother\’s high-pressure education. Although they could have become very good musicians, they still chose to rebel against the road to the top planned by their mother. The eldest daughter finally chose to join the army, and the younger daughter gave up the violin she had been practicing for many years and switched to playing tennis. For them, life is not a marathon, and years of accumulated achievements and experience can still be given up. Even if there is really a starting point in life, I am afraid it only begins when one breaks away from the shackles of his mother and pursues his independent dream. Viewpoint 3: You need to start within your ability. If you use a popular term to describe it, this type of parents can probably be called \”Buddhist parents\”. They believe that based on differences in social class and talent, there is indeed a path for each child. The invisible starting point of life. But for this starting line, parents should do what they can and not do anything beyond their capabilities. Taking risks and deceiving others for the sake of your children, as in the video, is definitely not the example a parent should set. But if, like in \”Tiger Mom and Cat Dad\”, you sell a house, a car, buy a house in a school district, or even quit your job to supervise your children\’s studies, it is really hard to accept. “Buddhist parents” believe more in letting things take their own course, allowing them toChildren grow naturally. After all, children are not everything in life. Every parent should also have his own independent personal life and not focus all his energy on the future of his children.