The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

Well, I agree with your idea, but I don't quite understand what you mean by 'learning atmosphere'. Roy pointed to the reception area, and Schiller led Jason to the sofa next to him sit down.

Sorry, professor, I also came from a gangster, so I didn't go to any school. What do you mean by the study atmosphere? Roy picked up the teapot and poured tea for Schiller.

It's okay. Schiller said sitting on the sofa: I can explain slowly, after all. When I wanted to reform Gotham's traffic, no mayor would sit on this sofa and listen to me.

Roy felt cold sweat coming out of his back, he smiled and said, Speak slowly, I will definitely listen carefully.

School is a place for learning. Note that this sentence is not a pleading, not an emphasis, but just describing a fact. School is a place for learning. I should not spend extra energy to maintain its function. This should be everyone It's a well-known thing, right?

Roy nodded. He admitted that, even in Gotham, most people know that school is a place to study. If you don't want to study, why go to school?

However, learning is not just about the school. It is not only about the quietness of the school, students can have a good learning environment, and it is not about the teachers who are serious and responsible, and the students can get good grades.

Roy was stunned for a moment, and said, Isn't it? Isn't it true that as long as the teacher teaches well and the students study hard, can they get good grades in the exam?

Schiller shook his head, but he didn't feel angry. In Gotham, most people think that if you really want to study, then go to school, study hard in school, and you can get good grades in the exam.

He patiently explained: Many parents think that throwing their children to the school, the school can complete all the education, but this is not the case at all. From the perspective of content, education includes knowledge education and personality education. From the perspective of method, it includes school education. education, family education and social education.

School is a place to teach them knowledge. Of course, in the process of getting along with classmates, they will also improve their social skills. However, family education and social education can shape their personality.

Now, the situation in Gotham has arrived. Not only did family education and social education fail to undertake the responsibility of educating personality, but they also dragged down the education of knowledge. Do you understand what I mean?

Although Luo Yiyi has never been to school, he is not stupid. He thought for a while and said: It is true that many parents in Gotham are not very good at educating their children, and some are even irresponsible at all. Not raising them after they are finished, resulting in the appearance of so many orphans.

What's more important is social education. Schiller tapped the surface of the coffee table lightly with his hand and said: The whole society in Gotham has no learning atmosphere, that is to say, people here do not have a shortcut to improve their class without learning. know……

Let's put it this way, if a Gotham person doesn't study, he still has a lot of jobs to do, such as being a thug in a gang, and he also has too many ways to cross classes, such as cheating, murdering and robbing...

After the development of the logistics industry, this phenomenon has not only not improved, but has also intensified. The lack of labor force has caused the vast majority of people to pass the education stage and enter the intensive labor stage.

Roy sighed and said: Of course I know that although the security situation in Chicago is also very poor, it is only in a few areas. In other normal communities, most people will finish high school, and a large number of people will go to school. Normal university.

Of course there are people who choose not to receive higher education, but to enter the society early. Some people do it to make money, and some people just do it for interest, but they have at least received high school education.

Roy thought about it again, and said, When I first came to Gotham, I took a look at the enrollment rate here. To my surprise, not only the education rate in the slums of the East Side is very low, but also in the North Side where gang bosses gather. , and the education rate is terribly low.”

Because the cost of education is very high, but the benefits obtained are often hidden. Schiller watched the tea in the teacup slowly sinking, he said: Because of Gotham's unique gang ecology, apart from ten The bosses of gangsters outside of the second family are changing quickly.

The newcomers get rich overnight, and they'll be so busy taking over their predecessors' estates, consolidating their positions, keeping themselves safe, that they'll have little spare time to educate their offspring, or to keep them in school.

As for the leaders of the twelve families, they have spare energy and spare money, but they don't know enough about the benefits of education. They hope that their offspring will have more contact with the family business, so that they can take the lead in running the family business. peers, so that the family will develop more prosperously.

In terms of running the gangster industry, they feel that the knowledge taught in school is useless, and their own experience is more useful. In that case, why send their children to school?

Most of the children of the heads of the twelve families, even if they go to Gotham University, they will not study hard. They will not go to school, they will only socialize in the name of reading, or they will just hang up their names and get a name. A decent degree will do.”

Moreover, the leaders of the twelve families generally don't want their children to study in other places, because once you leave this city and leave this special ecological environment for too long, you may not be able to compete after returning. , leading to a drag on the family.

Therefore, except for some wealthy businessmen in the southern and western districts, as well as families that have gangster industries but are not mainly engaged in gangster business, they hope that their children will receive a high-level education. People in other regions, even if they have money and leisure , and would not be inclined to educate their own children.

Schiller paused for a moment, and then went on to analyze: There is another reason for this situation, that is, the pressure brought by the rules of the gang is too great.

If you were born in a gangster family, from childhood, what you have to learn is not grammar, arithmetic and other subjects, but how to survive smoothly and well within the entire gangster rules.

Learning grammar, arithmetic, and art may improve your temperament and conversation, but if you don't understand the rules of gangsters and run around in various places, you may lose your life.

So, most of the second-generation gangsters like Evans will follow their parents and learn these rules behind them.

There are too many implicit default rules to understand, so they don't have much free time to study systematically. After all, in this ecological environment, life-saving is more important.

In addition... Schiller pointed out again: The pressure brought about by the gang society, in addition to the rules, there are also responsibilities.

There are many members in a gang, if you want to lead them, you must have enough prestige, and if you want to have enough prestige, you must express a responsible attitude to them, take practical actions, and lead them to compete for resources , to win the competition.”

Even if it is Falcone, he has to be responsible to the Falcone family. The reason why Evans is under so much pressure is because, there are very few people in the Falcone family, but he is still He has to be responsible for all twelve families, so how does this give him time to learn the knowledge in textbooks?

Luo Yi nodded. He felt that Schiller's analysis was very reasonable. The society under the rules of gangsters is so deformed. They are a society formed by competition and conflict, and everyone must be busy fighting with others.

The gang bosses of the previous generation, after securing their position and occupying resources, would ask their children to follow them into this society earlier, so as to seize the opportunity and stand out from the competition of the next generation.

This means that he does not have much time to receive systematic education, and when he becomes the heir and takes over the gang, he will ask his offspring to do the same. In this way, the education level of the offspring will become higher and higher If it is low, the level of competition will become lower and lower, and finally it will become pecking among chickens.

In a normal society, a person's speech, knowledge, wisdom and logical thinking are more important than some default rules. If you are good enough and the proposal is good enough, everyone can see what is at your fingertips. interests, then you don’t have to care about whether you are allowed to drink water or not to smoke at the shareholders’ meeting.

But in the gangster society of Gotham, certain default rules are more important than personal good qualities.

Alberto is a genius, like his father, but if he wants to lead the way in breaking the rules, like smoking cigarettes instead of cigars at the party of the heads of the twelve families, and drinking with ice cubes, then all the gangsters will They won't be convinced by him, and think that he is a young man who doesn't understand anything, and no one will follow him.

At the beginning, the rules formulated by the godfather were equivalent to putting chains on all the gang leaders so that they would not be completely lost in the chaos.

These slightly pretentious rules and countless hidden rules are actually the lights of the beacon of order, letting them know that they are still people in a civilized society, not a wild beast that has lost its mind.

But today, this has brought about another problem. There are too many rules. In light of these rules, it takes most of the time to participate in this society. If you don’t receive systematic education, it will only make the struggle more and more serious. The more you downgrade, the more rules you will have in the end, without vitality and future.

This kind of system is useful in a certain era, but it is destined to be eliminated by modern society, because the speed of scientific and technological development is always increasing, and the level of education required in a technological society is also increasing.

Schiller said: When the logistics industry began to develop, they felt that another golden age was coming, but they did not see the crisis behind this vigorous development.

This year is 1990. It may not be long before the old order will ebb and a new wave will come. Society will move forward at an unimaginable speed until it becomes something no one knows.

Schiller looked at Roy and said, I don't want this city to be abandoned by the times even though it has been abandoned by normal society.