"Reading useless theory" has nothing to do with fairness.

The reduction of the function of reading, there are many reasons. Rather than lament the public short-sighted, intellectual weakness, it is better to promote change in the allocation of resources and education system is not reasonable, so that the flow of education and talent more fair.

Reading useless theory is an old topic. In the current social environment, it also has a new meaning: with a person to learn knowledge can not be quickly converted into wealth or status, to measure whether reading useful.

Although a lot of people are not to read the book, but the recent look quite professional field survey has tried to explain, the rise of the book useless theory in the Chinese countryside, and is not a false proposition to be deliberately rendered by the media, but the real impact on the real problem of rural society.

Although this study has some limitations in the investigation and sample selection, some of the problems found in the survey have a certain reference value. For example, the survey found that although the view of the study of useless people in the survey does not account for the majority, but the proportion of 40.46% is still very large; and the more poor class, the higher the degree of recognition of reading; the higher the children completed the education stage, the higher the degree of recognition of the useless.

How to interpret the results of this investigation? Is reading useless theory is being more people to accept?

It must be pointed out that this is said to be “ reading ” not the spiritual activity of learning knowledge, but the consumption behavior of the current school education. In addition to “ the more the more knowledge the more reactionary ” the abnormal years, I am afraid not many people think that reading learning is useless. The so-called reading useful useless, more is out of the social cost considerations, is the home of education consumption with the foot vote choice.

Farmers make such choices, is a realistic basis. University graduates are not necessarily better than not to read the University of good employment, high income, the rural children admitted to a good university, fewer and fewer opportunities to change the fate of the function of the weak, and even returned to the family has brought a heavy burden. This situation is more, reading useless on the rise, not surprising.

Understand this, it will not only blame the farmers short-sighted, utilitarian. No one can deny the power of knowledge, of course, it is a noble spirit. There are people with data to prove, in the long run, the level of education, with the future income level and social status is positively related. But that is

That is, it can not explain the choice of farmers out of interests, is irrational or unreasonable, and should be from the whole education and social environment to find reasons.

The reduction of the function of reading, there are many reasons. On the positive side, it is because of the continuous improvement of social openness and mobility, and the rural children go out to have a way of reading, career choice and success criteria are also more diverse; negative aspects of rural education environment and conditions of the gap between large, social flow, the threshold is growing, social mobility is increasing. Also disconnect the existing education system and education content and social needs, leading to the underemployed, the impact of the knowledge to the ability of the transformation, but also to reading is more & ldquo; useless & rdquo.

So, reading useless theory even if the real existence, also with “ reading ” this matter itself has nothing to do, more is a social problem. Rather than lament the public short-sighted, intellectual weakness, it is better to promote change in the allocation of resources and education system is not reasonable, so that the flow of education and talent more fair. (Ding Yongxun)