Education and Equity——张海涛

Looking at the topic, I immediately come into a sentence said by Jiang Wen in the film “Let the Bullet Fly” saying “I come to the city of goose to do only three things: equity, equity, and TMD equity.” Why does he emphasize “equity” even though he is just a bandit. From this I associate education with equity. As a 22-year-old college student, I believe I have the discourse power. It is true that nothing is absolutely fair including education. But I’d like to say that education too far away from equity. I have several reasons which are as follows.
First, let’s take the college entrance examination as an example. I believe in China everybody knows the importance of this examination. Does it have equity? Absolutely “Yes”, but just a little. From the establishment of this kind of system in 1978 to the relatively mature stage today, it has always being far away from equity. In the past, not everyone has the chance to take the examination. Today, not everyone who does well in the examination can go to the college he or she is strongly willing to go to just because the local protectionism is very terrible. Let’s look at a series of figures: (This is a comparison form of university acceptance rate. We just take Beijing and Shanghai as the reference. )
Beijing Anhui Guangdong Guizhou Henan
Peking University 1 1/41 1/37.5 1/35.4 1/28

Shanghai Average Shandong Inner Mongolia
Fudan University 1 1/53 1/274 1/288
We can see that Peking University is the university of Beijing and Beijing people, so is Fudan University. This is clearly local protectionism which tramples equity. All is called the college entrance examination, but in different provinces, the difficulty of entering the same college is quite different. So, I have to ask a question: where is equity?
Second, we all know that our country is still a developing country. We still have very poor areas where we may not be very familiar with. The gap between the urban and rural is becoming bigger and bigger. So we can easily understand why the rural schools’ conditions are much worse than the urban schools’. To the rural schools, their teaching facilities are much worse than the urban schools’, so are the teachers. We can take it in this way: there are two families. One is very rich, the other is very poor. So how could we expect that the poor one can by the things which are as good as the rich one does. I do not think that our government didn’t allocate funds to the rural schools. They did, but how well did they do? It’s very hard to answer it. So here comes the point: do the students from the poor areas have equity in education with those from the rich areas? My answer is No. What about you?
Third, I believe that many of us can easily tell many famous universities in our country. But do we know how many universities are there in each province? To me, I do not know. But the fact is that the number of the universities in each province is much too different. So the problem is that the distribution of higher education resources lacks basic equity. Maybe the problem is mainly caused by some historical facts, but it hasn’t been solved yet even today.
Last but not least, I don’t think that I have to say too much. I believe that everyone of us should have realized and recognized that the poor students have very fewer opportunities to receive higher education than the rich students. We all know that it is unfair to those poor students and they do need equity. But we just can’t solve the problem at least in recent years I do not think we can.
About education, most of things I can see is inequity So our country has a long way to go. I believe that the “inequity” will turn into “equity” someday but the problem is just when. So what we can do now is to wait and wait.