The 17-year-old math genius girl is a big wake-up call to all Chinese parents

17 years old, majoring in fashion design in a technical secondary school, self-taught partial differential equations, scored 93 points in Ali Global Mathematics Competition, 12th place – Jiang Ping, we have been obsessed with this genius girl in the past two days. How valuable is the list of this mathematics competition? It can be seen that the top 20 lists are almost from top universities such as Qingbei University, Cambridge, and MIT. Ranked 13th behind Jiang Ping is Liu Ben from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Zhang Tianyi, the science top scorer in the college entrance examination in Jiangsu Province, is ranked 20th. So this 17-year-old girl from a technical secondary school can be ranked 12th. You can imagine what level her level has reached. Why did such a mathematical genius end up in a technical secondary school? In fact, since junior high school, she has discovered that her number sense is particularly good. In her own words, she already knows the answers to many questions at a glance without having to do them at all. But her parents and teachers also reminded her many times not to focus on subjects. The college entrance examination is not just about mathematics. However, these reminders had limited effect in the end. Because she was seriously partial to subjects, she finally came to this technical secondary school. In the school\’s first monthly exam, her math score was far ahead of other students, which attracted the attention of math teacher Wang Runqiu. Her mathematics teacher, Wang Runqiu, graduated from Jiangsu University in 2020 and came to teach in this school without the opportunity to continue his studies. An unsatisfied mathematics graduate student returned to an ordinary technical secondary school in his hometown. After working for less than two years, he met a similarly unsatisfied genius mathematics student who came to this school because of partial subjects and various other reasons. In fact, Wang Runqiu has participated in the Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition since 2022, including participating with Jiang Ping this year. His results were 166th, 432nd and 125th respectively. After talking about his experience in the interview, he continued, If I meet students like me, I want to be their guide and tell them that there are different possibilities in life. Many people say that Jiang Ping was a victim of Jiangsu\’s strict implementation of high school entrance examination shunting. Such a genius was missed from a technical secondary school because of partial subjects. This school only has two exams each semester, midterm and final, and it is a passing system. She does not need to learn so many subjects that have nothing to do with the major itself, so she can be said to have no pressure in her studies. Another point is that this math teacher definitely told her that it was one-to-one tutoring, because other students would not ask him questions about their basic conditions, so the teacher had a lot of free time. Did you see that while most children are competing for good teachers and good resources and working hard to solve questions, Jiang Ping can pursue her interests without distraction in the freest environment. She met her Bole in this school by accident, and she stood out through a competition. It is said that some higher education institutions have noticed her and extended an olive branch to her. I believe that soon she will start another life. possible. If you feel that Jiang Ping’s story is far away from you and a bit subversive of your cognition, the following things may be closely related to you. Zhaopin Recruitment recently released statistics showing that this year’s offer acceptance rate for master’s and doctoral graduates from undergraduate colleges was 33.2%, which was lower than last year.dropped by 17 percentage points. Employment pressure is already severe, so what challenges will we face in the future? Below is a chart of predicted changes in college graduates over the next 20 years. As can be seen from the figure, if the employment situation does not change qualitatively in the future, college graduates may face difficulty in finding employment in the next 20 years. In other words, it may become normal for most children to not be able to find an ideal job after studying hard for more than ten years. And they will also have their edges smoothed out in the existing education model and lose interest in learning. You know, not everyone will be as lucky as Jiang Ping. Hard work + interest + talent + talent are indispensable. Some time ago, well-known scholar Zheng Yongnian also said in an interview that what we learn in universities today is seriously out of touch with society, and what we learn is useless. Therefore, the longer college students stay in school, the less useful they become to society. The mathematics competition and employment situation of Alibaba Damo Academy remind us that the traditional education model may be being broken and a new talent selection mechanism is being brewed. With the explosive progress of AI, people\’s functionality is being challenged every day, and a major reshuffle of the profession may be taking place at any time. Those who know best about education are no longer traditional schools and teachers. They know better what kind of people are needed in the future. They may be more entrepreneurs engaged in cutting-edge technology. Musk has tried to invest in running schools many times. AdAstra in the early years and the primary and secondary schools that started preparations with an investment of 713 million last year are all trying to subvert the traditional education model. Of course, there are also many smart car company owners in China who care about education. Geely\’s Li Shufu started from the first Geely Industrial and Commercial School (now Zhejiang Automobile Vocational and Technical College) founded in 1997, and has founded at least 9 colleges so far, with teaching levels ranging from middle and higher vocational schools to undergraduates, as well as graduate students and doctoral students. , automotive engineering is the key training direction. According to incomplete statistics, these schools have trained more than 150,000 talents for the society, and 10% of them have entered Geely. In addition, Fuyao University of Science and Technology founded by Cao Dewang, founder of automotive safety glass giant Fuyao Group, will also be put into use. More and more big bosses have realized that if they can\’t recruit suitable people, they can just train them themselves. Finally, in fact, as parents, all we can do is face the current situation, correct our mentality, and avoid engaging in meaningless things. Not every child is a master of science and will become a scientist. The key is to find your child\’s interests, and accompany and support them. In fact, in the face of many problems that we cannot solve in the general environment, we should not be deeply anxious. It is better to spend more time to enrich the lives of children as much as possible, try as much as possible, help them find the direction of their passion, and try their best to Create conditions for them and gain more channels for them. I also hope that we parents can enrich ourselves again in the process of accompanying our children. It is a beautiful thing to pick up those interests that were once abandoned for academic purposes during the student days.