"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 took Jason to the sofa next to him.
sit down.
"Sorry, professor, I also came from a gang, so I didn't go to school. What do you mean by a learning atmosphere?" Roy picked up the teapot and poured tea for Schiller.
"It doesn't matter." Schiller said while sitting on the sofa: "I can explain slowly, after all. When I wanted to reform Gotham's transportation, no mayor was willing to sit on this sofa and listen to me."
Roy felt cold sweat break out on his back. He showed a smile and said, "Speak slowly and I will listen carefully."
"School is a place for learning. Please note that this sentence is not a plea or an emphasis. It is just describing the fact that school is a place for learning. I should not spend extra energy to maintain this function. This should be everyone's responsibility.
It’s a generally accepted thing, right?”
Roy nodded, admitting this. Even in Gotham, most people actually know that school is a place for learning. If you don't want to study, why go to school?
"However, learning is not limited to schools. Students do not have to have a good learning environment only if schools are quiet. Students do not have to have good grades if teachers are serious and responsible."
Roy was stunned for a moment and said, "Isn't it? As long as the teacher teaches well and the students study well, they can get good grades in the exam, right?"
Schiller shook his head, but did not feel angry. In Gotham, most people believe that if you really want to study, then go to school and study hard in school, and you will get good grades.
He patiently explained: “Many parents believe that by sending their children to school, schools can complete all education, but this is not the case at all. From the content point of view, education includes knowledge education and personality education, and from the method point of view, schools include
Education, family education and social education.”
"School is a place to teach them knowledge. Of course, in the process of getting along with classmates, it will also improve their social skills, but family education and social education can shape their personality."
"Now, the situation in Gotham has reached a point where family education and social education have not only failed to shoulder the responsibility of educating personality, but have in turn dragged down the education of knowledge. Can you understand what I mean?"
Although Luo Yiyi never went to school, he was not stupid. He thought about it and said: "It is true that many parents in Gotham are not very good at educating their children. Some people are even irresponsible at all. They just give birth to children when they think about it.
After finishing it, we didn’t raise it, which resulted in so many orphans.”
"What's more important is social education." Schiller tapped the surface of the coffee table with his hand and said: "The entire society in Gotham does not have a learning atmosphere. In other words, people here do not have learning as a shortcut to improve their own class.
know……"
"Let's put it this way, if a Gothamite doesn't study, he still has a lot of jobs he can do, such as working as a thug in a gang. He also has too many ways to cross class, such as cheating, abducting, killing and stealing..."
"After the development of the logistics industry, this phenomenon has not only not improved, but has intensified. The lack of labor has caused the vast majority of people to skip 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 like this in a few areas. In other normal communities, the vast majority of people will have finished high school, and a large number of people will go to college.
A normal university.”
"Of course, some people will choose not to receive higher education, but to enter society early. Some do it to make money, and some just do it for fun, but they have at least received a high school education."
Roy thought again and said: "When I first came to Gotham, I took a look at the education rate here. What surprised me was that not only was the education rate in the East Side slums very low, but also in the North Side where gang bosses gathered.
, the education rate is also horribly low.”
"Because the price of education is very high, but the benefits obtained are often hidden." Schiller watched the tea leaves in the teacup sink slowly. He said: "Because of Gotham's unique gang ecology, except for ten
Gang bosses outside the second family change very quickly."
"The newcomers have become rich overnight. They will be busy taking over the property of their predecessors, consolidating their own status, and ensuring their own security. They will hardly have any spare time to educate their descendants or let them receive school education."
"As for the heads of the twelve families, they have spare energy and money, but they do not know enough about the benefits of education. They prefer that their descendants have more exposure to the family industry, so that they can lead in terms of experience in running the family industry.
People of the same generation can make the family more prosperous."
"When it comes to running the gang industry, they feel that the knowledge taught in school is useless and their own experience is more useful. In that case, why should they send their children to school?"
"Most of the children of the heads of the Twelve Families, even if they go to Gotham University, will not study hard. They will not study. They will only socialize in the name of studying, or simply just name themselves and get a degree.
Just a good academic qualification is enough.”
"Furthermore, the heads of the twelve families generally don't want their children to study abroad, because once you leave the city and are away from this special ecological environment for too long, you may not be competitive when you come back.
, leading to dragging down the family.”
"Therefore, except for some wealthy businessmen in the South and West Districts, and families who have gang industries but are not mainly engaged in gang business, who want their children to receive a high level of education, people in other areas, even if they have money and leisure,
, and will not be inclined to let their children receive education."
Schiller paused for a moment, then continued his analysis: "There is another reason for this situation, and that is that the pressure brought by the gang's rules is too great."
"If you are born into a gangster family, what you have to learn from childhood is not grammar, arithmetic and other subjects, but how to live smoothly and well within the entire gang rules."
"Learning grammar, arithmetic, and art may make your temperament and conversation better, but if you don't understand gang rules and bump into each other in various places, you are likely to lose your life."
"So, most second-generation gangsters like Evans will learn these rules from their parents."
"There are so many implicit and default rules to understand that they have little spare time to study systematically. After all, in this ecological environment, life-saving is more important."
"In addition..." Schiller pointed out again: "The pressure brought by the gang society includes not only rules but also responsibilities."
"There are many members in a gang. If you want to lead them, you must have enough prestige. If you want to have enough prestige, you must express your responsible attitude towards them, take practical actions, and lead them to compete for resources.
, win the competition.”
"Even Falcone must be responsible for the Falcone family. The reason why Evans is so stressed is because, there are only a few people in the Falcone family, but he also has
He has to be responsible for all twelve families, so how can he have time to learn the knowledge in textbooks?"
Luo Yi nodded. He felt that Schiller's analysis was very reasonable. The society under gang rules is so deformed. They formed this society based on competition and conflict. Everyone must be busy fighting against other people.
After the gang bosses of the previous generation have secured their position and occupied resources, they will ask their children to follow them into the society earlier in order to seize the opportunity and stand out in the competition of the next generation.
This means that he has little time to receive systematic education, and when he becomes the heir and takes over the gang, he will ask his descendants to do the same. In this way, the educational level of his descendants will become increasingly better.
If the level is low, the level of competition will become lower and lower, and eventually it will become novices pecking each other.
In a normal society, a person's conversation, knowledge, wisdom and logical thinking are more important than some default rules. If you are good enough and the plan you propose is good enough, everyone can see what is within their reach.
interests, then you don’t have to worry about whether you are allowed to drink water or smoke at the shareholders’ meeting.
But in the gangster society of Gotham, certain default rules are more important than individual outstanding characteristics.
Alberto is a genius, just like his father, but if he wants to take the lead in breaking the rules, for example, smoking cigarettes instead of cigars at a party of the twelve family leaders, and drinking wine with ice cubes, then all the gang bosses will
I won't believe him, I think he's a fool who doesn't understand anything, and no one will follow him.
At the beginning, the rules set by the Godfather were equivalent to putting chains on all gang leaders, so that they would not be completely lost in the chaos.
These slightly pretentious rules and countless secret rules are actually the light of a beacon of order, allowing them to understand 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. Just participating in this society requires spending most of your time. Failure to receive systematic education will only make the struggle more difficult.
The more you downgrade, the more you end up with only rules and no vitality or future.
"This system was 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 scientific and 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 booming development."
"This year is 1990. Maybe it won't be long before the old order ebbs and a new wave is coming. Society will move forward at an unimaginable speed until it becomes something no one recognizes."
Schiller looked at Roy and said: "I don't want this city to be abandoned by the times after it has been abandoned by normal society."