Analysis On The Problem Of Being Trapped In Poverty By Receiving Education

The Human Capital theory believed that education can always make one gain a higher level in payment by means of promoting one's human ability and enhancing his or her labor productivity, thus promote one's social state. A traditional simple understanding also believed that through an enrichment in knowledge and a development in ability, education can always change one's situation completely, so-called "knowledge changes destiny". However, the appearance of the phenomenon, which called "been trapped in poverty by receiving education", proposing a powerful challenge to the similar viewpoints and becoming a social confusion to a certain degree.Social development had proved the point of view pushed out by the Human Capital theory above to be wrong, and also the word " knowledge changes destiny", which has a transformation process after education course of knowledge to productivity. But it seemed that it is insufficient to explain the appearance of the phenomenon "been trapped in poverty by receiving education", and it also cannot eliminate the suspicion to the value of education, that is: since it can neither change nor even only improve one's living state, but instead of the possibility of falling into a more disadvantageous situation, then how does the significance of receiving education manifest? More importantly, the influence produced to people's day-life and psychology by the phenomenon is realistic and easy to seen, what can possibly weaken the attraction of school education and call back the argument of "education useless", thus urges the individual and its family to revise or even give up the original education investment plan, and results in a resilience to the discontinuing studies rate. Those negative consequences of "poverty resulted by receiving education" are already seen in China's some local areas especially western areas.Under the background of a respectively difference in area development and an expanded tendency of social stratum disparity, the appearance of "poverty resulted by receiving education" has its inevitability, but that cannot cover its unfairness, which can be seen from its negative effects and the reason resulted it. Those reasons mainly lie in three aspects:First, families' overload caused by the unreasonable education cost-share. What incompulsory education is mainly a result of legal flaw, added government's duty dislocation, which, to a most degree, can be seen from the unfairness of education investment in the three classes of education system, and also the investment mechanism of "by the county primarily". In non-compulsory education stage it is probably because of the low margin efficiency of education investment and lack of scientific reasonable standard of education charge.Second, unreasonable education charge. In a very great degree the unreasonable education charge has a source of the unreasonable cost-share, especially the bad difficult situation in education development caused by the central government's duty dislocation. The "camera operation" behavior in education charge and the implementation of the "one-standard-charge system" have also facilitated the unreasonable charge.Third, deviation in education investment of individual and its family, which mainly refers to the blind and gambling psychology in the choosing of education opportunities. Neglect to the requirements of individual's development and imbalance in education information leading to blind choices;Under a background of the popularity of higher education, the imbalanced education development (including division of the education market) and the soaring education cost limiting the education opportunity and stripping the education right of farmer children, who's facing a more and more difficult situation in getting employed, and there also social refusal between cities and countryside, such factors make the psychology of education gambling quite universal.It is self-evident that education can enrich one's knowledge and enhance his or her social adaptability, the appearance of the phenomenon "been trapped in poverty by receiving education" should not be the reason of suspecting to the value of education, but its negative consequence cannot be neglected at the same time. The key to partly resolve the question lie in four aspects: guaranty for the implementation of compulsory education;reform on the unreasonable cost-share mechanism;to establishment perfect student subsidizes system as well as promote scientific education decision-making of families.