classification and division

As teenagers in today’s China, most of us have the same goal—to be enrolled by noted universities and further our educations. Why do so many people choose education as their most desirable thing ? according to different incentives of different groups of people to receive education, I think there are following kinds of purposes which motivate people in China to be obsessed with education.

“N othing is more decent and distinguished than receiving education.” This is an old saying from ancient china, which can fully reflects a portion of Chinese people’s motivation to receive education, especially those students who are from remote and destitute family. Influenced by China’s ancient philosophy and world view, many of modern people consider education can change their whole life such as social status and salaries. Therefore, they dedicate their time and energy to studying. When some of them can not realize their dream, they will even choose extreme cruel way to end their lives. For example, we often heard news reports that many Chinese teenagers commit suicide after knowing they do not have a good performance in the college entrance examination. In those people’s eyes, education is more than a way to uplift themselves either in the aspect of morality or self-improvement, it become tool which can lead them to get everything they long for such as wealth or social status etc.

For another group of people, they hold a completely reasonable and loft attitude toward their education motivation. They view education as their part of lives which can give them something beyond material. Just like a philosophy Francis Bacon said “Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend”. In those people’s opinions, receiving education is a kind of lifestyle more than a torturing process. “never too old to learn” is the motto of these people. They just enjoy the process of studying and new knowledge can always refresh them. Education means more than reading a book or obtaining a new skill but a intimate companion who they can lose in their lives.

No matter what kind of attitude people hold when they are receive education, there is one common factor, namely, they all manage to acquire new knowledge and master new skills, however their primary motivation will lead them to two different avenues.