教育体制的遗珠：中专数学爱好者获阿里巴巴数学竞赛初赛第二十名

最近又有一件事情在网上引起了很大的讨论。就是阿里巴巴举办了一个数学竞赛，这个数学竞赛已经举办了有好几届了。我在b站上听一个专门讲科普up主也介绍过，因为阿里巴巴是it企业，而数学和计算机科学的联系还是非常紧密的。所以为了发现人才，阿里巴巴特地举办了这个数学竞赛，而且更难能可贵的是，这项数学竞赛它是不设任何门槛的。所有人都可以报名参加。往届当中也有大量的普通数学爱好者，甚至外卖小哥参加比赛。当然，现在的就业形式外卖小哥里面藏龙卧虎也不稀奇，很多毕业就失业的大学生也加入了这一群体。

不过，今年的这个瓜可比这要大的多了，因为在初赛的名次表当中，在参赛选手来自的机构一栏中，在一堆像北大、清华这样的名校的名字当中，居然夹着一个中等职业专业学校的校名，原来是一位中考都没能考入高中的中专在读女生。在今年的阿里巴巴数学竞赛的初赛当中，获得了第二十名的成绩。

新闻一出，这位女孩也被带上了数学天才少女的光环。而这样的一位数学天才却在一所默默无闻的中专里面学着服装设计专业，人们不由得又习惯性的反思和调侃，国内的教育到底是在发现人才、培养人才，还是在埋没人才。

看到记者采访的说法，这位女生在初中的时候就比较喜欢数学，但是因为成绩偏科中考没有考上高中。虽然在中专学习，但是仍然不改对数学的喜爱。靠着边查字典边学看完了偏微分方程的英文教材。也就是说这是一位偏科的学生。

我们知道国内的教育特别是公立教育一向标榜学生要全面发展，什么德智体美劳之类的。但是这个世界本来就是丰富多彩的人，人与人之间天然就存在差异。如果每个人都全面发展，那不就等于每个人都是一样的？记得在疫情期间，西方政府给封闭在家的居民发放补助，国内的粉红大v就说大家都发钱，等于没发钱。其实从经济学的角度来说，这句话并不完全正确。但是长期来看，给所有人发钱，导致货币的数量上升，最终必然会导致物价的上涨。同样的，如果每个人都全面发展，那就是所有的事情都是特长，那也就没有特长和人才了。当然，国内的教育也有特长生特招一说。但是，主要集中在体育和艺术方面，体育就是为举国体制的体育事业输送储备人才去奥运会上这些国际赛上摘金夺银，树立国家形象。艺术类的，大多成了特权或者富裕阶层的子女就读名校的捷径，失去了特长的意义。所以可以从从本质上来说，国内的教育就是为了将学生塑造成一模一样，没有个性的人。所以尽管每当有这样的事例出现社会舆论一片反思之声，但教育体制也只会视而不见，不会做出任何改革。因为就它的真正目的来说——培养符合国家和统治者意志的人才来说，这件事它已经做的很好了。

当然在这件事情火爆之后，也有很多质疑之声。比如著名的学术打假人，方舟子就在他的推特上说质疑这个女生纯属造假炒作，真正答题的另有他人。不过他也没有提出任何真凭实据，只是提到的就是该女生中考的数学成绩也很一般，连高数都学不好，不可能掌握偏微分方程这么复杂的数学工具。但是方舟子此人我在推特上也关注过，甚至和他有过观点的交锋。这人虽然是学术出身，也是专业学术打假，但是他的思想其实相当封闭，容不得不同意见，仿佛只有自己才是掌握真理的人，而且在社会问题上完全持西方左派的的观点，崇尚所谓的社会主义的变种——社会民主主义。虽然名气很大，但其观点也只能作为参考。

昨天网上也有爆料，这说阿里派人去考察过证名女生，结果让她照着教科书上抄写解题步骤，她连基本的数学符号都抄错了。不过今天看到的阿里方面有辟谣，说并没有派人再去考察这位女生。所以目前网络上所有关于这位女生被打假的消息，其实是造假的消息，都没有实锤的证据。其实像爱因斯坦，在他成名之前，也不过是瑞士专利局的一个普通职员。谁能想到他会是二十世纪最伟大的物理学家之一呢？所以这件事情就让子弹飞一会儿吧。因为毕竟这只是初赛，还有难度更高的决赛。如果她在决赛中的成绩下滑的很厉害，再来质疑也不迟。

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There is another thing that has caused a lot of discussion on the Internet recently. It's a math contest held by Alibaba, which has been held for several years. I heard a master who specializes in science popularization on b website also introduced it, because Alibaba is an IT company, and the connection between mathematics and computer science is still very close. So in order to find talents, Alibaba specially held this math competition, and what is more valuable is that this math competition does not set any threshold. Anyone can sign up. In the past, there were also a large number of ordinary math enthusiasts, and even takeaway boys to participate in the competition. Of course, the current employment form is not rare, and many college students who are unemployed after graduation have also joined this group.

However, this year's melon is much bigger than this, because in the preliminary ranking table, in the column of the institutions from which the contestants come, in a pile of famous schools like Peking University and Tsinghua University, there is a secondary vocational school name, which turns out to be a secondary school girl who failed to enter high school. In the preliminary round of this year's Alibaba Mathematics Competition, I won the 20th place.

As soon as the news broke, the girl was also put on the halo of math genius. And such a mathematical genius is in an unknown secondary school to learn clothing design professional, people can not help but the habit of reflection and ridicule, the domestic education in the end is in the discovery of talent, training talent, or buried talent.

See the reporter interview, the girl was more like math in junior high school, but because of the results of the middle school exam did not pass the high school. Although studying in the secondary school, but still do not change the love of mathematics. Read the English textbook of partial differential equations by looking it up in the dictionary. That is to say, this is a deviant student.

We know that domestic education, especially public education, has always boasted that students should develop in an all-round way, such as morality, intelligence, physical fitness, the United States and labor. But the world is inherently rich and colorful people, and there are natural differences between people. If everyone is well-rounded, doesn't that mean everyone is the same? I remember that during the epidemic, Western governments gave subsidies to residents who were closed at home, and the big pink v in China said that everyone gave money, which is equivalent to no money. In fact, from an economic point of view, this statement is not entirely true. But in the long run, giving money to everyone causes the quantity of money to rise, which must eventually lead to a rise in prices. Similarly, if everyone is well-rounded, then everything is a specialty, and there is no specialty or talent. Of course, there are also special students in domestic education. However, it mainly focuses on sports and art, and sports is to send reserves of talents for the sports cause of the national system to win gold and silver in these international competitions in the Olympic Games and establish a national image. Most of the arts have become a shortcut for the children of privileged or wealthy classes to study in elite schools, losing the meaning of specialty. Therefore, in essence, domestic education is to mold students into the same people without personality. Therefore, although every time there is such a case, the public opinion is a voice of reflection, but the education system will only turn a blind eye to it, and will not make any reform. For as far as its true purpose is concerned - the cultivation of men who conform to the will of the state and its rulers - it has done this very well.

Of course, after the incident became popular, there were many doubts. For example, Fang Zhouzi, a famous academic anti-fake, said on his Twitter account that questioning the girl was pure fake hype, and the real answer was someone else. However, he did not put forward any real evidence, just mentioned that the girl's math score is also very general, even high numbers are not good at learning, it is impossible to master such complex mathematical tools as partial differential equations. But Fang Zhouzi is a person I also follow on Twitter, and even have a confrontation with him. Although this man is an academic and a professional academic anti-fraud, his mind is actually quite closed, tolerant of different opinions, as if he is the only one who has mastered the truth, and completely holds the Western leftist view on social issues, advocating the so-called variant of socialism - social democracy. Although well-known, his views are only for reference.

Yesterday, there was also a revelation on the Internet, which said that Ali sent someone to inspect the girl, the result asked her to copy the steps of solving the problem according to the textbook, and she even copied the basic mathematical symbols wrong. However, Ali has refuted the rumor and said that he did not send anyone to investigate the girl. So at present, all the news on the network about the girl being beaten is actually fake news, there is no real evidence. In fact, Einstein, before he became famous, was just an ordinary clerk in the Swiss Patent Office. Who would have thought that he would be one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century? So let the bullets fly for a while. Because after all, this is only the preliminary round, and there are more difficult finals. If she slips badly in the final, it's not too late to question her.