I quite like the German director Brecht’s quote, “The greatest evil is not the person who breaks the rules, but the person who makes absurd rules.”
If I didn’t deeply understand the meaning of this sentence before, then now, it’s very clear.
In a school in Chongqing, a student was constantly kowtowing to two people wearing camouflage uniforms on the road, kowtowing for a minute. In fact, he had even “knelt and walked” behind the two of them before, as if he had committed a major crime, in extreme fear, frantically begging for mercy.
The scenes from the movie are replicated in reality, which is already absurd and ridiculous. But what if I told you that the two people wearing camouflage uniforms were also students?
According to a response released by the school, the two students wearing camouflage uniforms were from the “Disciplinary Squad”, and the student who knelt and kowtowed was caught by them for “making a mistake”.
So it was a mistake, at first glance, I thought it was some kind of capital offense. The kind that would send you to the eighteenth level of hell.
So what mistake was made?
Answer: Bringing a power bank to the classroom.
I really don’t understand a certain group of people more and more. Is a power bank a bomb? You have to use the reason that “power banks can explode and pose safety hazards” to make such strange and absurd rules. To put it bluntly, it’s wishful thinking, it’s paranoia, it’s maliciously creating a “hierarchy of power”.
If bringing a power bank into the classroom is so harmful, shouldn’t the parking lots in the school all be demolished? Cars are more lethal than power banks. It’s best to demolish the teaching buildings too. You say power banks might explode, and I say the teaching buildings are at risk of collapsing.
You’re just a classroom, making it seem like you’re going through airport security. Yes, airports, subways are not worthy, because power banks can be brought into the subway.
The school’s response is also very absurd. They emphasize “power banks cannot be brought into the classroom”. In contrast, the situation of the student kneeling is actually “not a big deal”, and it’s okay to comfort him.
I don’t know what you think, but I really feel disgusted when I see this kind of scene. Some parents instinctively substitute their children into the two students wearing camouflage uniforms, and then feel good about themselves, indifferent. But in fact, the number of “Disciplinary Squad” they created is definitely a minority, and most of them are ordinary students who are responsible for “being disciplined”.
In other words, if this situation really happens, most people’s children should be managed, not managers.
The student who knelt down was of course a bit extreme himself. He didn’t understand that some ground shouldn’t be touched. If you deduct points, let him deduct them, if you expel him, let him be expelled, if he can’t study, then he can’t study, what can he do.
He is a bit wrong.
But what kind of organization is the school’s Disciplinary Squad? Don’t you really look at any history, have you forgotten the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution? “Students criticizing students” and “Red Guards beating Red Guards” all started from a beautiful name called “supervising classmates” and “purifying the collective”.
In other words, what is the school doing by setting up a “Disciplinary Squad”? You let students manage students, which in itself is a kind of inequality, a kind of operation that undermines students’ dignity.
I think of a proverb: Those who trample on human dignity in the name of order will eventually be swallowed by order.
What’s the difference between this and before the French Revolution, when nobles could avoid taxes and ride horses to run into the poor on the streets?
My understanding is that in real life, there are only adults and adults, so in the necessary departments and institutions, such as the police station and the market supervision bureau, there is no other choice, after all, we cannot find a “giant” above the adults.
However, in schools, there are children and adults. You already have principals and teachers to manage order, why do you still need to classify students? And now it’s getting more and more absurd. The Disciplinary Squad has come out, and they are also equipped with a set of “uniforms”.
What’s next, a gang-busting squad?
Some netizens cut it with one stroke, saying that such a school is definitely not a good school. It’s very helpless, I actually agree with their view. After all, a school that only focuses on letting children perform “discipline” but doesn’t teach them what dignity is, how can it be good?
The moment a child is forced to kowtow on the ground, it is not that he has lost education, but that education has lost its essence.
I have always believed that the ultimate goal of education is not to teach people to kneel, but to enable people to speak standing up.
It seems that I was mistaken.
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