Going to a technical secondary school in the 1980s was like stepping out of farming; going to college in the 1990s was like a happy life. Today, a survey on the employment situation of college students shows that 60% of college students face unemployment after graduation. The one-time employment rate of vocational and technical schools in Guangdong Province is as high as 96%. According to reports, the monthly salary of senior vocational high school graduates has exceeded 2,000 yuan after employment. Not long ago, a reporter was interviewing in Qingdao and heard a new story: a parent whose daughter had already passed the entrance examination of a key high school mobilized her daughter to give up going to school. The reason why ordinary high school students choose to study in technical schools is that most technical school graduates can find ideal positions, but many people who have completed college cannot find jobs; secondly, the country needs skilled talents. After children go to technical schools, they not only have less tuition but also learn more. If you succeed, you will be able to support yourself in the future. During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the central government will invest 14 billion yuan, of which 4 billion yuan will be used to establish an aid system for poor students in vocational colleges. At the same time, it is clear that the principle of investment is to tilt toward the west. (Excerpted from Issues 12, 20, and 17 of "Half Moon Talk" 2006) Experts say that first-class talents can be introduced, first-class technology can be introduced, and a large amount of capital can be introduced, but skilled workers cannot be introduced. Vigorously developing vocational education is a major decision in our country. Parents, we must change our concepts, update our thoughts, and catch up with the express train of the times. Don't be vague and don't regret. It is our wisdom to let our children go to work today. For example, parents' ideas have been advanced. What they need to teach their children now is to learn how to be a good person, because in today's society, a person's success depends 15% on professional skills and 85% on interpersonal communication (American psychologist Carnegie said). Good interpersonal relationships are attracting more and more attention from many people. To establish good interpersonal relationships, you must first respect your teachers. Only by respecting your teachers can you be interested in learning and have insights into life, because interest is the best teacher, and education is the result of actions. . Only by respecting the teacher can one love his disciples as his sons. In school, we should not care about a child's grades, but about his relationship with his teacher, his friendship with his classmates, whether he has met the teacher to say hello, whether he is at odds with his classmates, etc. If you don't study well, you can come back again, as long as you get used to it. Teachers and classmates can help him if his grades are not good, but if he has bad habits and poor interpersonal relationships, it will be difficult for him to move forward. I once saw such a story, which took place in Japan. The protagonist of the story was a college girl who used her vacation to work at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. The job assigned to the college girl in this five-star hotel was to clean the toilets. When she reached into the toilet to clean it on the first day, she almost vomited on the spot. After barely surviving a few days, it became unsustainable and I decided to resign. But at this critical moment, the college student discovered that an old cleaner who worked with her scooped a glass of water from the toilet and drank it after the cleaning work was completed. The college students were stunned, but the old cleaner proudly said that the toilet he cleaned was so clean that you can even drink the water in it! This move brought great inspiration to the college student, and she understood that the so-called professionalism means that any job, regardless of its nature, has ideals, realms, and higher quality that can be pursued; and the meaning and value of work do not depend on its high or low status. how? Can those who are engaged in work focus on the work itself and explore or create the fun and enthusiasm in it? Therefore, after that, when entering the toilet again, college students no longer feel it is a hardship, but regard it as a place of self-discipline and improvement. Every time they clean the toilet, they always ask themselves: "Can I scoop a glass of water from here and drink it?" "At the end of the vacation, when the manager accepted the assessment results, the female college student scooped a glass of water from the toilet she had cleaned and drank it in front of everyone! This move also shocked everyone present, especially the manager who thought that this work-study student was an absolutely necessary talent! After graduation, the college students successfully entered the Imperial Hotel to work. And with this incredible professionalism, before the age of thirty-seven, she was the most outstanding employee and the person with the fastest promotion at the Imperial Hotel. After the age of thirty-seven, she entered the political arena and was appreciated by Prime Minister Koizumi and became the postal minister of the Japanese cabinet! The name of this female college student is Noda Seiko.
Until now, this 44-year-old cabinet minister who is considered to have great potential to compete for the prime ministership is said to always say every time he introduces himself: "I am the most dedicated toilet cleaner and the most loyal cabinet minister." Minister! ”
What is a talent? Talent is a person who is particularly outstanding in a certain aspect, including good cleaning. Why don’t we educate our children bit by bit? Instead of hoping for success, we should hope for adulthood. More realistically, there is an old saying in Beijing that says, "If a mother is diligent, there will be no diligent daughter." Why should everything be taken care of for the children? Poor parents in the world, they must turn their children into wealth.