小的时候看过一本连环画，叫《无辜的罪人》，书名代表了这本连环画的全部内涵，直到现在都感受蛮深。如今，当奥数成为过街老鼠的时候，我再一次想起了这本连环画，我想，如果奥数长了嘴巴的话，它一定会说：其实我也是“无辜的罪人”。
比如说学生，如果升学的时候不考奥数，他们也不会一窝蜂地挤奥赛班这个独木桥；比如说学校，特别是那些名校，如果用一张试卷可以区分所有学生的成绩，他们 也不会闲着没事做用奥数为难学生；比如说奥数老师，如果学生都不来读，我也没处可教；比如说教育部门，学生要读，老师要教，学校要择优录取，我明令禁止也 是白搭。应该说，这就是时下奥数的全景生态图，套用王铮的歌名：我们都是无辜的罪人。
可无辜不等于冤无头，债无主，你想想啊，人家奥数当初之所以传入咱中国，是因为用奥数可以甄别天才和非天才，能够甄别千里马的东西是什么，当然只有伯乐 了，所以奥数就是伯乐。可咱中国有个传统，望子成龙、望女成凤，我的孩子难道就比别人的差吗，别人的孩子能够学奥数我的孩子难道就不行吗，我丢不起这个 人？有了这种传统和心态，奥数就不愁没人来捧场了，可以说，名校拿奥数来考查和录取学生，正是应和了家长们的这种心态，再毕竟，校长和老师们也是家长。
又想起了一条新闻，说是外地大学生要入户北京必须过英语四级，这当然很荒谬，户口和英语四级有什么关系？我现在要说的是，有关系。大学文凭你有我有大家 有，可英语四级不一样，你有我有他没有，就凭这个，可以把一大批学生挡在京城之外。名校也一样，1+1=2，1/2-1/3=1/6小学生都知道，可“你 前面有5个人，后面有5个人，问队伍里总共有几个人”小学生们未必就晓得了，所以，奥数就有了市场，有了舞台。用专业术语表述就是“稀缺效应”。只要上名 校还是这么难，即使没有奥数，也还会有奥英，奥汉或者其他的什么奥，总之是十分拗口晦涩的东西，目的是想方设法难倒你，并且是不达目的不罢休。
问题出在哪，其实已经蛮明了了，名校太少了，优质教育资源太缺乏了，这已经是老生常谈。可把问题倒过来看，名校少了，就是非名校多了，常规教育资源太普遍 了，大多数孩子都在吃面，你的孩子为什么要喝汤，请注意，基础教育是通识教育，不是选拔性教育，关系的是乡下孩子、城里孩子，穷人孩子、富人孩子之间的教 育公平，不是把每个孩子都送进名校，培养成天才，不光我们现在做不到，人家英国美国也做不到。这也是中国为什么多有“儿童天才”，却少有甚至没有“成年天 才”的唯一原因。这话很难听，却是不争的事实。
最后表明我的观点，在基础教育阶段，不要搞什么重点和非重点，毕竟重点和非重点是人为的，而不是天然的，只有所有学校和师资实行了一刀切，教育资源均衡化 了，学生间的白热化竞争就会消失，劳民伤财的奥数就自然没有了市场。当然，你的孩子要学奥数可以，但和升学无关，只与“天才”有系。
反观印度，且不说对奥数追捧到何等程度，他们的学生们根本就不知道什么是奥数，奥数是教什么，学什么的，然而，与对奥数的“无知”形成鲜明对比的是，印度的数学教育水平和计算机应用水平远远超出我们中国。这样看来，把奥数当上帝，我们这是何必呢？
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Will you let your chidtren learn math Olympiads
I read a Comic strip named <Innocent sinners> When I was a little kid, the name of this book represented the whole meaning of this book, I still have this feeling till now. Today, I recalled this Comic strip when mathematic Olympiad like the crossing road mouse. I think if mathematical Olympiad can speak, it will say I'm an "Innocent sinner” too.
For example, students will not rush to squeeze the single-plank bridge of Olympiad competition if the score of the test is ignored; For example, school, especially those famous schools, will not idly do nothing but to embarrass the students if they can use one piece of paper to distinguish all of their students. For example, the teachers of Math Olympiads will lose their jobs if there is nobody to learn. For example the educational department ,there is no use for them to ban math Olympiads competition if students want to learn it teacher want to teach school select students on merit. It should be said ,this is the panorama eco-map of the present math Olympiads, quote the name of one song of Wang Zheng：We all are innocent sinners.
However, innocent is not equal to injustice without head, debt-free lord, the original reason that it was introduced to china is it could be used to distinguish genius and non-genius, what are the things that can identify swift horse? Of course Boehler, and so Math Olympiad is Boehler. But the tradition of hoping their children to be the best in china urged the parents to do so. If the child of others can learn Math Olympiads well, why can't mine? So there is no need to worry about nobody cheering on Math Olympiads only if the tradition and mentality exist. It could be said the reason that famous school matriculates students by considering the score of their Math Olympiads is to cater to the mentality of parents, after all headmaster and teachers are housemasters too.
This reminds me of a piece of news, saying that if the academic students want to access to Beijing the CET-4 certificate is necessary. Of course it's absurd. Is there relation between account and CET-4？The answer is yes. All of us have the university diploma, but not all of us have certificate of CET-4.Only because of this a large number of students can be blocked to the outside of Capital. The elite school is the same. Every pupil know that1+1=2，1/2+1/3=1/6,but not all of pupil know the answer to the question" There are 5 persons in front of you, and also 5 behind you ,well how many pupil all together?" So, this offered the markets and platforms to Math Olympiad. Use jargon expressions are the "scarcity effect." Even if there is no Math Olympiad but English Olympiad and Chinese Olympiad and so on will appear to instead of it because of the difficulty in entering elite school. The purpose is to find ways to daunt you, and never give up until reach the goal.
The cause of such problem is obviously due to the rarity of the elite school and the lacking of high quality of educational resource, and this is already common place. Put the problem upside down, less elite schools, that is, more non-elite schools, regular educational resources are too common. Most of the children are eating noodles while yours is drinking soup. Please note that basic education is general education not selective education, it concerns the justice between the countryside children and city children, poor children and rich children, not send all the children to elite school develop them into a genius. Not only can't we do this but also UN and USA. That's the only reason that there is so many "child genius" but few even no "adult genius" in china. It heard terrible, but indisputable fact.
Finally, I express the point of my view, during the period of basical education; don't engage in what the focus and non focus, after all they are artificial, not natural. And only introduced in all schools and teachers across the board, educational resources, equalization, and the white-hot competition among the students will disappear and exhaustive Mathematical Olympiad naturally there is no market. Of course, your child to learn Mathematical Olympiad can, however, and further education has nothing to do only with "genius" has the Department.
In Indonesia, On the contrary, not to mention the pursuit extent of Math Olympiads, their students simply do not know what the Mathematical Olympiad is, Mathematical Olympiad is what to teach, learn what. However, In stark contrast with the "ignorance" on Mathematical Olympiad's, India's level of mathematics education and computer applications are far beyond our China. As such, taking Math Olympiad as god is vain.