Educational Consumers and Beneficiaries

Spending time and money that yields no return is simply consumption.

The greatest difference between people lies in knowing how much time they have to figure out what they want to do, especially what they want to do with their lives.

Without goals, a life is destined to be filled with futile efforts for oneself and productive work for others.

To know what you want, you need a sufficiently broad range of choices. To deserve what you want, you must invest in education to earn the qualifications that make you worthy.

Therefore, a sufficiently broad range of choices must result from aligning personal interests with market research. Personal interests should be wide-ranging, and parents should cooperate with market research by not keeping their heads buried in the sand. Instead, they should seek information from multiple perspectives to understand society. Even if some information isn’t directly applicable, expanding your information base will help you make choices with fewer errors.

Thus, to be worthy, the child must strive to attain the qualifications that make them deserving. This means aiming for a high ranking, because the number of market positions is fixed; only by squeezing into those positions can you get a chance.

What is the most basic research? It’s looking at where the people you aspire to become and envy end up, and what they actually do—that is, understanding how they truly live their lives. It’s also figuring out which universities’ graduates are sought after in various industries, and what their annual intake and attrition rates look like (hiring and turnover). Then, combined with your family’s circumstances, you ask: What do I currently have? What do I want? If I give something up, will I still have a chance to reach it? Or will I be unable to reach it even after giving everything up?

He who makes the cake has the right to distribute it

The most worthwhile investment in education is helping the next generation avoid detours. The key to avoiding detours is determining goals early and channeling limited resources into effective, productive endeavors.

Ultimately, the world is an asymmetric, real-game arena.

True education means you’re willing to spend endless time on your children. Have you researched various industries? Then worked backward to understand universities? Have you investigated each university’s programs in detail, including the cost-effectiveness of different combinations? And have you further researched high schools, understood various admission policies, how different awards affect point totals, early admission batches, and strategies to circumvent competition?

Each generation surpassing the previous one means consistently investing limited resources in truly productive endeavors.

Education is a market-driven endeavor—do you understand?

Do you really think you’re educating children? No, you’re custom-building products according to market demand, and predicting future demand to craft tomorrow’s products.
You are the founder investing your own resources, and your child is the product you launch into the market.