Chapter 825

"Um, I very much agree with your idea, but I don't quite understand what you mean by 'learning atmosphere'." Luo Yi pointed to the reception area. Shiler took Jason to the sofa on the side and sat down.

"Sorry, Professor, I also came from a gang, so I didn't go to school, so what do you mean by learning atmosphere?" Luo Yi picked up the teapot and poured tea for Shiler.

"It doesn't matter." Shiler sat on the sofa and said: "I can explain slowly. After all, when I wanted to reform Cat Getan's traffic, no mayor was willing to sit on this sofa and listen to me."

Luo Yi felt cold sweat breaking out on his back. He showed a smile and said: "You speak slowly, I will definitely listen carefully."

"School is a place for learning. Note that this sentence is not a plea, not an emphasis, but just describing a fact. School is originally a place for learning. I shouldn't have to spend extra energy to maintain this function of it. This should be a fact recognized by everyone, right?"

Luo Yi nodded. He admitted this point. Even in Cat Getan, in fact, most people know that school is a place for learning. If you don't want to learn, why go to school?

"However, learning is not just about school. It's not that just because the school is quiet, students can have a good learning environment, and it's not that just because the teacher is serious and responsible, students can get good grades."

Luo Yi was stunned and said: "Isn't it? Isn't it just that as long as the teacher teaches well and the students study well, they can get good grades?"

Shiler shook his head, but didn't feel angry. In Cat Getan, the vast majority of people believe that if you really want to learn, then go to school, study hard in school, and you can get good grades.

He explained patiently: "Many parents think that throwing children to school, the school can complete all education, but in fact, it is not like that at all. Education, in terms of content, includes knowledge education and personality education. In terms of methods, it includes school 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. However, family education and social education can shape their personality."

"Now, the situation in Cat Getan has reached the point where family education and social education not only have not assumed the responsibility of personality education, but have instead dragged down knowledge education. Can you understand what I mean?"

Luo Yi, although he didn't go to school, he wasn't stupid. He thought about it and said: "Indeed, many parents in Cat Getan don't know how to educate children, and some people are not responsible at all. They give birth when they think of it, and don't raise them after giving birth, leading to so many orphans."

"More importantly, social education." Shiler tapped the surface of the coffee table lightly with his hand and said: "The entire society of Cat Getan has no learning atmosphere. That is to say, people here don't have the understanding that learning is a shortcut to improve their own class..."

"Let's put it this way, if a Gothamite doesn't read, they still have many jobs they can do, such as being a thug in a gang. They also have too many ways to cross classes, such as cheating, killing, and robbing..."

"After the logistics industry developed, this phenomenon not only didn't improve, but intensified. The lack of labor caused the vast majority of people to have to skip the education stage and enter the intensive labor stage."

Luo Yi sighed and said: "I certainly know that. Although the security situation in Chicago is also very bad, it is only a few areas that are like this. In other normal communities, the vast majority of people will finish high school, and a large part of people will go to normal universities."

"Of course, some people will choose not to accept higher education, but enter society early. Some people are for money, some people are just for interest, but they have indeed at least received high school education."

Luo Yi thought again and said: "When I first came to Cat Getan, I specifically looked at the enrollment rate here. What surprised me was that not only is the education rate in the East District slums very low, but the education rate in the North District, where gang bosses gather, is also terrifyingly low."

"Because the cost of education is very high, but the benefits obtained are often implicit." Shiler looked at the tea leaves in the teacup slowly sinking and said: "Because of Cat Getan's unique gang ecology, except for the Twelve Families, gang bosses are updated very quickly."

"The newcomers get rich overnight. They will be busy taking over their predecessors' industries, consolidating their status, and ensuring their safety. They almost have no energy to educate their descendants or let them receive school education."

"And the heads of the Twelve Families, they have the energy and money, but they don't have enough understanding of the benefits brought by education. They hope their descendants will be exposed to more family industries, so that they can lead their peers in the experience of operating family industries, thereby making the family develop more prosperously."

"And in terms of operating gang industries, they feel that the knowledge taught in school is useless, and their own experience is more useful. In that case, why send children to school?"

"Most of the children of the heads of the Twelve Families, even if they go to Cat Getan University, will not study hard. They will not read, but will just use the name of studying to engage in social activities, or simply just hang a name and get a nice degree."

"Moreover, the heads 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, then after you come back, you might have no competitiveness, leading to dragging down the family."

"Therefore, except for some rich businessmen in the South District and West District, as well as families that have gang industries but whose main business is not gangs, they will hope that their children receive high-level education. Other people, even if they have money and leisure, will not tend to let their children receive education."

Shiler paused, and then analyzed: "There is another reason for this situation, and that is that the pressure brought by gang rules is too great."

"If you are born in a gang family, then from childhood to adulthood, what you have to learn is not grammar, arithmetic, and other subjects, but how to survive smoothly within the entire gang rule, and live very well."

"Learning grammar, arithmetic, and art might make your temperament and conversation better, but if you don't understand gang rules and bump into things in various places, you are very likely to lose your life."

"So, the vast majority of gang second generations, like Yin Wensi, will follow their parents and learn these rules."

"There are too many implicit and default rules to understand, which leads to them having no spare time for systematic learning. After all, in this kind of ecological environment, survival is more important."

"In addition..." Shiler pointed out again: "The pressure brought by gang society, besides rules, is also responsibility."

"A gang has many members. If you want to lead them, you must have enough prestige. And if you want to have enough prestige, you must express an attitude of being responsible for them, take practical actions, and lead them to compete for resources and win competition."

"Even Falcone must be responsible for the people of the Falcone family. The reason why Yin Wensi is under so much pressure is because the Falcone family has very few people, but he also has to be responsible for all the Twelve Families. This makes him have no time to learn the knowledge in textbooks?"

Luo Yi nodded. He felt that Shiler's analysis was very reasonable. The society in the gang rules is so deformed. They rely on competition and conflict to form this society, and everyone must be busy fighting with others.

The previous generation of gang bosses, after sitting firmly in their positions and occupying resources, will require their children to invest in this society earlier to seize the opportunity and stand out in the competition of the next generation.

This means that he has no time to receive systematic education, and when he becomes the successor and takes over the gang, he will require his descendants to do so. In this way, the education level of the descendants will become lower and lower, and the level of competition will become lower and lower, finally becoming a peck of vegetables.

In a normal society, a person's conversation, knowledge, wisdom, and logical thinking are more important than certain default rules. If you are excellent enough and the plan you propose is good enough, allowing everyone to see the benefits at their fingertips, then you don't need to care whether you are allowed to drink water or smoke at the shareholders' meeting.

But in this gang society of Cat Getan, certain default rules are more important than individual excellent qualities.

Alberto is a genius, just like his father, but if he wants to take the lead in breaking the rules, for example, not smoking cigars but cigarettes at the gathering of the heads of the Twelve Families, and adding ice cubes to the wine he drinks, then all the gang bosses will not be convinced, feeling that he is a greenhorn who knows nothing, and no one will follow him.

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

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

But today, this brings another problem. There are too many rules. Just learning these rules and participating in this society takes up most of the time. Not accepting systematic education will only make the struggle more downgraded, finally becoming only rules, without vitality and 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 has been increasing, and the education level required in a technological society is also increasing."

Shiler said: "After the logistics industry began to develop, they felt that it was another golden age, but they didn't see the crisis behind this booming development at all."

"This year is 1990. Perhaps it won't be long before the old order will recede, and a new wave is about to come. Society will move forward at an unimaginable speed until it becomes something no one recognizes."

Shiler looked at Luo Yi and said: "I don't hope that this city, while already abandoned by normal society, will also be abandoned by the era."