Is tuition necessary?
In another group, someone asked if paid tuition is necessary, for students already attending "expensive" private or international schools.
My response :
The origin is decades/centuries old, and part of Chinese cram-culture. Basically the student has no occupation beyond passing a specific high-level exam which kicks back as wealth for the entire family : so the student is a vehicle of investment.
How this is relevant to the PRESENT : is really up to you.
- A. Some families value credential laddering, and the collection of branded-school certs as a superficial class marker.
- B. Some families are less concerned about the class-marker, but see it as a means to the more concrete end of becoming powerful and wealthy via working for/with elite social networks.
- C. Some families are neither concerned with social-markers, nor wealth and power, and they may instead value :
- C1. intellectual achievement / knowledge
- C2. a certain lifestyle / tribe : which may be commercially oriented, or less so
- C3. sensory art and beauty
- C4. other
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