Why do you have to go to a famous school?

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Why do you have to go to a famous school?

at the beginning of the new semester, a video of former US President Barack Obama's speech has gone viral again in moments.

Obama answered the complex philosophical question of "Why do we go to school" with the words "responsibility, diligence and perseverance".

Obama said: "A person's living conditions-appearance, origin, economic conditions, family atmosphere are not excuses for neglecting his studies and bad attitude."

in fact, the adolescent Obama is also a "stray and rebellious teenager", skipping classes, drinking and picking up girls are not left behind.

however, the last admission notice from Harvard Law School changed his fate and directly opened the door to an elite society.

from the black guys on the fringes of society to the president of the United States who won the White House, Harvard University has played a more important role than ordinary people can imagine.

therefore, it is important to receive education, but what really affects a person's height is where he receives education.

like gold buried in the sand, over the years, there has been no light, but as long as it is placed on a fully lit showcase, it will shine the brightest light.

for students, a famous school is the jewel showcase.

We do not advocate omnipotence in famous schools. Of course, not everyone in famous schools is successful, but at least they are closer.

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famous schools forge people's horizons and patterns

writer Liu Zhenyun tells a story in "one sentence to ten thousand sentences".

Lao Yang, who sells tofu, doesn't want his son to go to school. in his opinion, people are like birds. The better their brains are, the harder their wings will be. They say they fly away, for fear that the tofu factory will not be able to tie him down.

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A friend Lao Ma came to persuade him: "did the old county magistrate Lao Hu know?" Now we specialize in selling furniture, while others sell it for 50%, while he sells it for 70%. Last time, a table of eight Immortals was bought at a high price of 120! "

in fact, a table of eight Immortals is nothing. With the addition of the county magistrate, it is valuable. This is the same as selling tofu. When my son goes to school, comes out of the county government, and then goes back to making tofu, tofu will become Lao Hu's eight immortal table, worth a lot of money.

on hearing this, Lao Yang hurriedly sent his son to study, but not to increase his knowledge, but to sell tofu.

for Lao Yang, selling tofu is a big deal. apart from that, he doesn't know anything about it, and he doesn't want to understand it.

this determines that he can only sit back and watch the sky all his life, and his eyes only revolve around the tofu stall, and he is destined not to achieve great success.

A person's birth determines his lower limit, but education determines the upper limit he can reach.

how broad your horizons are, how big your pattern will be.

the New Oriental Spirit says: "you should use the standard of" Niuren "to ask yourself to constantly go among Niu people and narrow the distance between them. When you think you can be one of them, you can become a real awesome person. "

to be a good man, you can come from a bad background, but the starting point of your efforts must be higher than that of ordinary talents.

for many people, this "starting point" is the school's choice.

for students who graduate from prestigious universities, generally speaking, the ceiling comes later, which is not an absolute judgment, but a matter of probability.

I have a friend who majored in English in a second-tier political science and law college. The collocation of politics, law and English makes people feel very awkward.

in the first two years of college, my friend, in her own words, "fooled around" and hardly went to the library except for exams.

everything changed at 03:00.

once, a friend went to the University of International Business and Economics, where she was deeply shocked.

is also an English major. The teacher of foreign trade and economic cooperation cited the case of the Economist last week. The senior seniors of foreign trade and economic cooperation are often the great gods of amateur translation.

it turns out that if you change colleges and universities, there can be such a big difference.

so as soon as she came back, she prepared for the postgraduate entrance examination and became a "nail household" in the library. She lived up to her painstaking efforts. She was admitted to foreign trade and economy, and became the envy of her classmates.

when you have a wide field of vision, you will naturally be strong enough, and your whole body will glow.

if the purpose of education is to forge horizons and patterns, then famous school education is the shortest distance between the deficiency of reality and the ideal state.

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students from famous schools spell "lifelong learning ability"

there is a very interesting phenomenon.

in some second-and third-tier universities, libraries are often empty, and only when exams are approaching will there be a full event. But in world-class universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Cambridge and Harvard, at two or three o'clock in the morning, some people still stay up at night and are full of seats.

this is the most obvious place where famous schools are higher than ordinary schools.

A famous school will make a person full of crisis and ambition, and take the initiative to develop the habit of lifelong learning under the influence of the environment.

because those students from famous schools see the best people in the world, and when they rise to a certain level and height, they are determined not to fall down.

the American poet Emily Dickinson said, "if I had not seen the sun, I could have endured the darkness."

those students in prestigious schools, precisely because they have seen the largest and most beautiful sun, do not want to be slaves to the dark in any case, and they are happy to fight for their dreams.

TED has a lecture entitled "what is the loss of people who do not study?" the speaker is a Cambridge graduate.

the speaker said at the beginning, "look at a man's bookcase."You can learn a lot about this person. "

one day, she suddenly found that almost all the books she read were British and surrounding books, which made her realize that she had a knowledge blind spot.

so she exclusively customized a plan for "intensive Reading World", listing 196 countries in the Cambridge Library and trying to read books from each country.

in just a few years, she has changed from an ignorant "literary xenophobic" to a writer who reads books all over the world.

the richest resources in famous schools are countless people eager to explore the world and books that take you to the unknown. Sometimes they take you, sometimes you run with them, and slowly you discover that there are incredible benefits and shortcuts.

my best friend once told me such a story. Her roommate in Beijing is a female doctor from Tsinghua University. Although the room is not large, it is within reach of all kinds of books. In addition to working in a big enterprise during the day, she comes back at night to provide manuscripts for well-known accounts.

there is a good saying that if there are poems and books hidden from the bottom of your heart, years will never defeat beauty.

female PhD is not as miserable as we laugh at. People with lifelong learning ability have temperament and self-cultivation that keyboard warriors can't understand.

what is even more amazing is that the girl's husband, who is also a doctor from the Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, met in the library because a note made a story.

the two just bought a house in Beijing with a loan. Although the house is not big, it is beautifully decorated. The whole wall was painted by her husband himself, envious of others.

when her best friend expressed envy for her roommate's happy life, the roommate said, "in the final analysis, we all have to thank fate and Tsinghua University. If we are not in Tsinghua University, do not like to spend time in the library, have different values, and if anything goes wrong, it would not be the end now."

people are always involuntarily affected by the environment, and there is a kind of good atmosphere of learning and pleasure everywhere in famous schools, so you will naturally get close to Zhu and meet like-minded people.

people always say that all roads lead to Rome, but it is sad that some people are lucky to be born in Rome, and even more so, those who were born in Rome with a golden spoon work harder than those of ordinary origin.

many people think that the life of the rich second generation is extravagance, famous brands, sports cars, and having a party on a luxury cruise ship from time to time. They don't need to work hard, and their parents' wealth alone can support them for a lifetime.

but in fact, this is not always the case. although the rich second generation has better economic conditions, they also have mental pressure and feel that they cannot afford to lose.

Xiao Ke in the documentary "chasing the other side of the Dream" is a rich daughter who attends one of the top private schools in the United States, with tuition fees of more than $55000 a year alone.

everyone in the school worked very hard. In order not to be left behind, Xiao Ke often slept only three or four hours, and even once knelt down to study because he couldn't sit in a chair because of low back pain.

Xiao Ke disagrees with the label "profligacy and extravagance" affixed to the rich second generation on Weibo.

she said: "I have seen too many people with good conditions, no one is like this, everyone is very kind, very good, more is constantly, that is, to become a better person."

Gao Xiaosong was born in the Tsinghua Courtyard. My grandfather was the first president of Shenzhen University and an academician of the two academies. My grandmother was one of the organizers of the Beijing Institute of Aeronautics. My uncle was one of the "four famous doctors in Beijing." my uncle is the head of the radio electronics department of Tsinghua University, my parents are both professors of Tsinghua University, and my mother is a student of Liang Sicheng.

Gao Xiaosong said: "when I was a child, my family wrote a note saying you were going to ask whom." And these so-called "who" and "who" are the top leaders in some fields in China.

it can be said that Gao Xiaosong won at the starting line as soon as he was born, so he has a greater sense of self-confidence and superiority than his peers. his parents come from a prestigious school and are neck and neck, and it is a combination of strong and strong to make friends. In this way, the growth environment of future generations is naturally no worse.

it can be seen that a good university can give you the opportunity to get in touch with a wider circle.

this society is not only about knowledge and diplomas, but also about strength and connections. With a wide range of contacts, people's road will become wider and wider.

my friend's sister is an Ivy League returnee, but after returning home, she started a catering industry, but her family was very disappointed. She felt that she had spent so much money on your studies, but finally became a cook. What's the use of graduating from a famous school? what's the use of studying for many years?

but before long, my friend's sister used the knowledge and working experience she learned abroad to open her own western restaurant, one after another.

first, the head chef of the French Michelin restaurant was invited to cook, and then he received a big order for the high-level party of the listed company, and later even the stars came to support it.

Why? Because they are all alumni.

this is the power of the "circle". Birds of a feather flock together, people are divided into groups, and those who have connections, no matter what industry they are engaged in, can quickly open the gap.

people are the sum of social relations, and people pay attention to mutual empowerment. Today, you help me build bricks and bricks, and tomorrow I will help you strengthen your foundation.

but for ordinary people, the most likely way to integrate into a higher circle is to pursue further studies in prestigious schools.

A famous school can help you create a circle of golden people of your own. When you are recognized by the circle, others need to go around 108000 miles to do things, while you may only need one sentence to do things.

all in all, a diploma may not guarantee a person to be at the top of the pyramid, but in most cases, it will keep you from falling to the bottom.

of courseThe background of a famous school is not universal insurance, and there are also a lot of people who play poorly with good cards, but this is not the reason for us to look down on elite schools.

A person's success, in the final analysis, depends on his own efforts and the direction of the development of the times, so even if you do not come from a famous school, you can still complete the counterattack.

but we must admit that a person who forges foresight, develops learning ability and accumulates network resources in a famous school is closer to success.

what I'm afraid of is not that you can't be admitted to a famous school, but that you look down on it.

and those who say that a prestigious school diploma is useless, those who claim that "reading is useless" either stand at the top of the pyramid and never come down, it doesn't hurt to stand at the bottom of the valley, or they can't reach the grapes and say sour grapes.

I guess you are not the former. I hope you don't be the latter.