Except for yourself, no one is qualified to fulfill you.
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Can reading change my destiny?
This controversial topic has recently had a new argument in the most direct way.
Wealth-X, a wealth research company, announced the university rankings of 2019 globally high net worth individuals (net assets above $30 million).
Top20, 17 in the United States, 3 in Europe, Harvard University champion, the total assets reached $476.09 billion.
Asian universities are also on the list:
The National University of Singapore ranks No. 1 in Asia and 21st in the world. Tsinghua University and Peking University rank second and third in Asia, followed by Mumbai University and Delhi University in India.
The story to be told below takes place in Mumbai.
Maybe for the rich, the famous school is the icing on the cake; But for the poor, reading is the only chance to break the boundaries.
In India, where there is a lot of competition and the gap between the rich and the poor, the children at the bottom think of reading as a breakthrough straw, and they will climb up and down.
Abhyas Galli in Mumbai is an open-air “self-study street” that has existed for more than 80 years. Here, the myth of Indian students’ resurgence is happening quietly at night.
The counterattackers who walked out of this street will tell us: “No matter what environment you are in, the direction of the road ahead depends on every step of your feet.”
Survival or elimination,You are your own master
Abhyas Galli, Marathi means “Study Lane”.
In the daytime, it is an ordinary street in the urban area of Mumbai, India. At night, it has become a local “self-study street”.
When night falls, young people from all walks of life come here with a kettle and a book note.
They have a newspaper under the streetlight, or they sit in a chair and start self-study. There are three or two groups of people who come alone.
Although there is no table, everyone’s enthusiasm for learning is very high.
The reason for choosing to study on the street is that in Mumbai, where the population density is huge, there is not enough comfort space to provide a place for young people to learn.
The children who come to read this book are mostly from low-income families nearby. Usually a few people are crowded in a small house called Chawls.
Chawls is the old and small of Mumbai. Imagine the cabinet building of the 80s. A house of less than 20 square meters should accommodate more than 4 people. It is crowded and noisy at home, and it is completely quiet.
On the other hand, the Mumbai library and study room are limited, and they charge an annual fee of $20-80. They close at 7:00 pm and cannot meet the needs of students.
So 7*24 hours free and quiet self-study street has gradually become the first choice for young people to learn.
The learning trail is backed by the Podar Hospital, which is separated from the noisy downtown and has its own tranquility.
A group of young people are here to write their own future.
The diligence of their lives is forced by reality, and it is also a kind of obsession with “not living.”
Mumbai may be the most polarized city in the world.
On the one hand, Mumbai’s housing prices can rank among the top ten in the world, compared with Beijing seven or eight years ago; on the other hand, the city’s per capita income is less than 1/10 of Beijing’s, and it also has the largest slum in Asia.
Moreover, the wealthy area and the slums are separated by a street.
The richest mansion on the side of the house is 27 stories high, 600 servants are around a family of 6 and the other side is sharing the same toilet.
Children in low-income families are looking up at the luxurious roof gardens and open-air swimming pools. Life that you can’t have can be seen in such a cruel way with the daily life of every bitter child.
The good news is that the road to counter-attacks in front of poor children seems very clear: to succeed in India, be an engineer or a doctor.
Some people have counted that Silicon Valley, where top tech talents gather, accounts for one-third of Indian engineers.
Among the top 500 companies in the US, Indian CEOs ranked first among all foreign CEOs (10 out of 75).
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(Raj, the second generation of Indians in the big bang, is an American engineer, and his father is a doctor.)
But at the same time, this road is extremely difficult, Because only the top graduates can change their destiny.
According to the Global Times, the average income of Indian general graduates is only about 1,500 yuan, while the students of the Indian Institute of Technology computer department are 20 times their salary.
But the Indian Institute of Technology has consistently ranked first in the world’s most difficult university rankings.
In 2015, the number of Indian Institute of Technology applicants was 450,000, but only 13,000 were accepted, and the admission rate was 3%. For reference, Tsinghua University ranked 16th, with an average acceptance rate of 14.02%.
The prototype of Imperial Engineering University, which makes students break their heads in the “Three Stupid Bollywood” is the Indian Institute of Technology
such a harsh environmentNext, the learning path was born.
This wide but flat street has gradually become a secret path for Indian students to succeed.
The young people in Mumbai understand that high housing prices, a severe employment situation, and the legacy of the caste class are full of malice against the poor.
So , taking a good school and getting a good job is the only hope for turning over.
Small streets have great energy,Responsive magic of learning paths
April and December each year is the peak season for the learning trail.
The test season is coming, so that the street is full of junior and senior high school students who are wanted, and even college students preparing for exams and business exams.
The age of the test takers varies from 12 to 28 years old, but they help each other tacitly.
Similar struggle experience and preparation experience naturally formed the trend of the schoolmaster to help the younger brother, and the mutual aid group with the school scum was also free to pair.
Everyone on the street yells at the other person’s name and knows which test the other party is preparing.
You can often see a few reference books shared by several people in the same grade, exchange notes, discuss topics together, and understand where you haven’t learned.
There is no mosquito, there is not enough light, and occasionally there are noises from slow-moving motor vehicles, but no one cares about these disturbances. When your goals are strong enough, all objective conditions will make way for the first demand.
Yadav and Amit Birde, students in the Department of Electrical Engineering, have been studying on this street for 6 years and are grateful for their self-study experience:
“In the past, both of us could only test more than 70 points. Since we formed a self-study partner, we all scored 90 points.”
Anil Pandya, 26, said that the self-study path is his “lucky street.” Because in this self-study, he achieved 69% of the good results in the STD exam.
In addition to a group of mutual help groups, the self-study street also gave birth to a private education guidance group.
Because Indian universities are self-employed, there are written tests and interviews, there is no unified review materials, and the preparation materials and strategies are scattered and difficult to find.
The self-study street is like a large offline preparation forum:
The seniors who have already admitted to the university will take the learning path in their leisure time, provide the candidates with test preparation suggestions, and some of the seniors who have already entered the workplace will take the time to come back here and give them guidance to the younger generation..
These children have embarked on a hard road since birth, but with wisdom and goodwill, they have created unlimited learning resources with limited realities, saving themselves and saving each other.
It’s no wonder that Twitter bloggers are amazed after seeing the self-study street:
“There are students from all over the world, there are deliberately bright reading lights, specially built mobile toilets, even the government is warmly appealing: alcoholics please don’t come here to disturb the readers!
This noble self-study street mode is worthy of admiration. Please give me a dozen trips!
Get out of the learning path of countless individual winners,In fact, you are fulfilling yourself
In addition to Abhyas Galli, there are many spontaneously formed learning areas in Mumbai, such as S.K Patil Udya, August Kranti Maidan, P.T Mane Garden, etc.
August Kranti Maidan
These places are where slum children and bottom-level children dream of taking off.
Raj Janagam, who started his SSC exam in the self-study street in 2003, scored 86%.
After 10 years, he owned his own company in Hyderabad, India’s software capital, to do business incubation.
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