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□Guo Yuanpeng

"Get an American master's degree in half a month, and the company will definitely recognize it" and "It only takes five years to go from a technical secondary school to a doctorate"... Recently, Xinhua Daily Telegraph reporters found many advertisements for overseas "quick-learning degrees" on the Internet, some of which directly posted the overseas degree certificates of multiple students. Consultants from some degree improvement institutions said that some people would spend hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan to buy an overseas degree.

(Xinhuanet, August 18)

Why spend money to buy a fancy quick degree? When a degree can be "quickly acquired" or even obtained in just a few months, we can't help but ask: Is such a degree really for self-improvement, or is it just a "false reputation"?

But the question is, if it doesn't work at all, who would spend money just to buy a "fake face" without any gold content? Xinhua Daily Telegraph's survey shows that quick overseas education can indeed come in handy. Education is a hard threshold not only in the recruitment stage, but also in layoffs of large companies such as Internet giants. Education is one of the important reference indicators. A high degree can help employees get conveniences such as salary increases, promotions, and settlement points. These benefits will stimulate people's demand for improving their education. Many private and foreign companies "only look at what diploma you have". A single master's degree can also be used as a transition to apply for a double-certificate doctorate in South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand and other countries, and become a springboard for doctoral studies.

Overseas quick-learning education not only fails to provide students with truly valuable knowledge and skills, but may also lead some people astray. In some industries and companies, high education seems to have become a stepping stone for promotion, while actual work ability and experience are ignored. This distorted concept has undoubtedly contributed to the prosperity of the "quick-learning education" market. It is not difficult to see that quick-learning overseas education, although it has no gold content in terms of knowledge and skills, can indeed bring "real benefits" to some people. They are not spending money to buy a "fake face", but to get "real benefits". In the final analysis, they are not spending money to buy something for themselves to see or play with, but for "usefulness". If the concept of employment does not change, and enterprises and society still only value academic qualifications and not actual ability, then the "overseas quick-learning education" market will still exist.

We should advocate an evaluation system that pays more attention to actual ability and comprehensive quality, so that those who are truly talented and capable can get the recognition and opportunities they deserve. What we need is not more "quick success", but more "deep cultivation". Only by truly settling down to study and practice can we be invincible in this fiercely competitive world. Blocking the use of overseas quick-learning degrees, making these worthless quick-learning certificates become a piece of waste paper, who would still spend money to buy these meaningless quick-learning degrees? In the final analysis, what can really eliminate quick-learning degrees is the concept of employment. It is the pursuit of enterprises and society to look at ability instead of academic qualifications and not ask about academic qualifications for heroes.