物以稀为贵 A Thing Is Valued If It Is Rare

After years of continuous enrollment expansion of colleges and universities, the number of college graduates in China has reached 10 million every year, which of course includes the third batch undergraduate colleges (such as vocational colleges). The employment pressure of college graduates is huge, and most graduates will lose their jobs after graduation.

There are many reasons for this situation. First, the number of college students has increased year by year due to the expansion of enrollment in successive years. At the same time, some private colleges have emerged as the times require. Even if the results of the college entrance examination are bad, some students can still go to college. The increase in the number of students has also led to the decline in the quality of education. Second, the setting of university majors is market-oriented, and they rush to the market. As a result, they can't keep up with the changes in the market. In a few years, the popularity will become a cold potato, and the palace of teaching and educating people will become a place to teach people how to earn money. Third, the learning atmosphere in the university has degenerated, and classes have become a place for sleeping and resting. Teachers teach their classes on the platform, and students sleep soundly in class, without disturbing each other. There are many truants everywhere. If you try to pass the exam (the pass mark is 60%), everything will be fine. Long live 60 points.

How many students graduating from the colleges and universities have real talent? How many people can give play to their professional expertise in real jobs?

Today's college students are everywhere, no less than the bosses in southern cities in the 1980s. At that time, there was a metaphor that throwing a brick on the street could hit three bosses. However, if someone cheers on the street and says that he is a college student, he will definitely attract strange eyes. People around him will be careful to stay away, for they are worried that this person has a neurological problem - probably a neurosis patient.

A thing is precious if it is rare. There are so many college students. Any young person may be a college student, which is no different from ordinary people. Can such a college student still be valued and admired by people?

In the 1980s and 1990s, there were not many college students or students admitted to technical secondary schools in a rural village every year. In 1985, I was admitted to the technical secondary school, and the entire commune (that is, the current township) had only 10 students admitted to it. Even if the total number of graduates of the commune was 1000, the admission rate is only 1%. An article once argued in many ways that the technical secondary school students in the 1980s were almost equal to the level of graduate students today.

At that time, the college students were gentle, and their behavior was obviously different from that of ordinary people. They also had genuine talent and knowledge, which was enviable and respected. However, it is hard to see those good qualities in college students nowadays, which are not obviously different from ordinary people.
If the expansion of enrollment is only for the purpose of pursuing a figure - the proportion of people receiving higher education, without paying attention to the quality of education and the cultivation of college students' quality and level, such higher education is meaningless.

经过多年的高校连续扩招，我国目前每年大学毕业生人数已达到了1000万，这当然包括三类本科院校（如职业学院等），大学毕业生就业压力巨大，而大部分毕业生毕业便即失业。

造成这种现状的原因是多方面的，首先是连年扩招，使大学生人数逐年增长，同时，一些民办院校也应运而生，即使高考成绩再烂，也能上大学，学生数量的增加，也导致了教育质量的下降。二是大学专业的设置以市场为导向，一哄而上，结果跟不上市场的变化，过不了几年热门变成了冷门，教书育人的殿堂变成了教人如何挣钱的场所。三是大学里学习氛围退化，上课成了睡觉休息时刻，老师讲老师的课，学生睡自己的觉，互不打扰。逃课者比比皆是，只要想方设法考试及格就万事大吉，60分万岁。

这样走出大学校门的学生有几个有真才实学？有多少人能够在现实工作岗位上发挥自己的专业特长？

现在的大学生遍地都是，不亚于上世纪八十年代南方城市里的老板，那时有个比喻，说在大街上扔一块砖头能砸着三个老板。而如果有谁在大街上振臂一呼，说自己是一名大学生，一定会引来异样的眼神，周围的人会小心远离，他们担心此人有神经上的问题——很有可能是个神经病。

物以稀为贵，大学生数量如此众多，随便一个年轻人就是大学生，同普通人没有什么差别，这样的大学生还能受到人们的重视和羡慕吗？

上世纪八九十年代，一个农村村子里每年也出不了几个大学生，即使中专生也不多见。1985年，我考上了中专，而整个公社（也就是现在的乡镇）也不过10个人，即使按全公社1000人的毕业生计算，录取率也不过是1%。有一篇文章曾多方论证，说上世纪八十年代的中专生几乎相当于现在的研究生的水平了。

那时的大学生文质彬彬，言行举止与普通人有着明显的不同，也有真才实学，令人羡慕和尊重。可现在的大学生身上已很难看到那些良好的特质了，与常人没有明显的不同。

如果扩招只是为了追求一个数字——国民接受高等教育比率，而不注重教育的质量及大学生素质和水平的培养，这样的高等教育没有意义。

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