Chapter 822: Gangster Dilemma (Part 1)

"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 and sat down.

"Sorry, professor, I also came from a gang, so I didn't go to school. What do you mean by learning atmosphere?" Roy picked up the teapot and poured tea for Schiller.

"It doesn't matter." Schiller sat on the sofa and said, "I can explain it 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 on his back, and he smiled and said, "Tell me slowly, I will listen carefully."

"School is a place to learn. Note that this sentence is not a plea or an emphasis, but just a description of a fact. School is originally a place to learn. I shouldn't spend extra energy to maintain its function. This should be a recognized fact, right?"

Roy nodded. He admitted this point. Even in Gotham, most people actually know that school is a place to learn. If you don't want to learn, why go to school?

"But learning is not just about school. It is not only about quiet schools that students can have a good learning environment. It is not only about teachers being serious and responsible that students can get good grades."

Roy was stunned for a moment and said, "Isn't it? Isn't it that as long as the teacher teaches well and the students study hard, they can get good grades?"

Schiller shook his head, but he didn't feel angry. In Gotham, most people believe that if you really want to learn, then go to school, study hard in school, and you can get good grades.

He patiently explained: "Many parents think that throwing their children to school can complete all the education, but this is not the case at all. From the perspective of content, education includes knowledge education and personality education, and from the perspective 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, their social skills will also be improved, 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 not only fail to bear the responsibility of personality education, but also hinder knowledge education. Do you understand what I mean?"

Although Luo Yiyi has never been to school, he is not stupid. He thought about it and said: "Indeed, many parents in Gotham are not very good at educating their children. Some people are even irresponsible. They give birth to children when they want to, but don't raise them after giving birth, which leads to the emergence of so many orphans. "

"What's more important is social education." Schiller tapped the surface of the coffee table with his hand and said, "There is no learning atmosphere in the entire society of Gotham. In other words, people here don't realize that learning is a shortcut to improving their class..."

"Let's put it this way. If a Gotham person doesn't study, he still has a lot of jobs to do, such as being a thug in a gang. He also has too many ways to cross classes, such as cheating, murder and robbery..."

"After the development of the logistics industry, this phenomenon has not only not improved, but has worsened. The lack of labor has caused most 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, most people will finish high school, and a large number of people will go to normal universities. "

"Of course, some people choose not to receive higher education, but enter society early. Some people do it to make money, and some people do it just for interest, but they do at least receive high school education. "

Roy thought for a while and said, "When I first came to Gotham, I also took a special look at the enrollment rate here. What surprised me was that not only the education rate in the East Side slums is very low, but the education rate in the North Side where gang bosses gather is also terribly low. "

"Because the cost of education is very high, but the benefits obtained are often hidden. "Schiller watched the tea leaves in the teacup slowly sink, and he said: Because of Gotham's unique gangster ecology, the gangster bosses other than the twelve families are updated very quickly. "

"The newcomers become rich overnight, and they will be busy taking over the predecessor's industry, consolidating their own position, and ensuring their own safety. They will hardly have the spare energy to educate their offspring or let them receive school education."

"And the leaders of the twelve families do have spare energy and spare money, but they don't know enough about the benefits of education. They hope that their offspring will have more contact with the family industry, so that they can be ahead of their peers in the experience of running the family industry, so that the family can develop more prosperously."

"As for running the gangster industry, they think that the knowledge taught in school is useless, and their own experience is more useful. In that case, why send their children to school?"

"Most of the children of the twelve family leaders will not study hard even if they go to Gotham University. They will not go to school, but will only socialize in the name of studying, or simply just put their names on it and get a good academic degree. "

"Moreover, the leaders of the twelve families generally don't want their children to go to other places to study, because once you leave this city and stay away from this special ecological environment for too long, you may not be competitive after you come back, which will drag down the family."

"Therefore, except for some wealthy businessmen in the South and West Districts, and families that have gang industries but are not mainly engaged in gang business, they will hope that their children will receive a high level of education. People in other regions, even if they are rich and free, will not tend to let their children receive education."

Schiller paused, and then continued to analyze: "There is another reason for this situation, that is, the pressure brought by the rules of the gang is too great."

"If you are born into a gang family, then from childhood to adulthood, you don't have to learn subjects such as grammar and arithmetic, but how to survive smoothly and live well in the entire gang rules."

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

"So, most of the second-generation gangsters like Evans will Follow your parents and learn these rules. "

"There are too many implicit and default rules to understand, which leads to no free time for systematic learning. After all, in this ecological environment, it is more important to save lives. "

"In addition..." Schiller pointed out again: "In addition to rules, the pressure brought by the gang society also includes 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 attitude of responsibility for them, take practical actions, and lead them to compete for resources and win the competition. "

"Even if it is Falcone, he must be responsible for the people of the Falcone family. The reason why Evans is under so much pressure is that there are very few people in the Falcone family, but he has to be responsible for all twelve families at the same time. How can he have time to learn the knowledge in the textbooks? "

Luo Yi nodded. He felt that Schiller's analysis was very reasonable. The society in the gang rules is so deformed. They are a society formed by competition and conflict. Everyone must be busy fighting with others.

After the previous generation of gangsters have secured their positions and occupied resources, they will ask their children to follow them into society earlier, so as 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 heir and takes over the gang, he will ask his descendants to do the same. In this way, the education level of the descendants will become lower and lower, and the level of competition will also become lower and lower, and finally it will become a fight between chickens.

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 put forward is good enough to let everyone see the benefits at hand, then you don't have to care whether you are allowed to drink water or smoke at the shareholders' meeting.

But in the gang society of Gotham, some default rules are more important than personal excellence.

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 the gathering of the heads of the twelve families, and adding ice cubes to his drinks, then all the gang leaders will not believe him, thinking that he is a fool 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 the gang leaders so that they would not be completely lost in the chaos.

These slightly hypocritical rules and countless secret rules are actually the lights of the order beacon, making them understand that they are still people in a civilized society, not a beast without mind.

But today, this brings another problem. There are too many rules. Just learning these rules and participating in this society will take most of the time. Not receiving systematic education will only make the struggle more and more degraded, and finally there will be only rules, but no 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."

Schiller said: "When the logistics industry began to develop, they felt that another golden age had arrived, but they did not see the crisis behind this booming development."

"This year is 1990. Perhaps it will not be long before the old order will recede and a new wave will come. Society will move forward at an unimaginable speed until it becomes something that 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."

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