In ancient times, education was the only way out of poverty in China—in modern times, it is the best way out. China’s economic boom and talk of the benefits of hard work have raised expectations that going to university will lift people out of poverty.
But today, China’s higher education system can only create jobs for a few and produce a new generation of jobless and hopeless people.
How do you choose a college when you’re the first in your family to go to school? Or pay for it when 4 years of schooling cost 60 years of income?
What’s it like to join the “ant tribe”, 2 million new Chinese graduates every year can’t find a job? What if the only job you could get was selling an education to other students, even though you knew it was worthless?
