“马太效应”对高校思政工作的启示

The enlightenment of "Matthew effect" to ideological work in colleges and universities

"马太效应"是指强者愈强、弱者愈弱的现象,广泛应用于社会心理学、教育、金融以及科学等众多领域。美国教育学家托马斯.哈里森曾经说过:学校是个使富者更富,穷着更穷的地方。可见,它是一把"双刃剑",利弊共存。因此高校思政工作要有效地利用"马太效应",取其精华,弃其糟粕,进而推进教育的健康平衡发展。

The 'Matthew effect' is refers to the phenomenon of the strong becomes stronger and the weak weaker, widely used in social psychology, education, finance, and science, and many other fields. American education historian Thomas Harrison once said: the school is to make the rich get richer, the poor poorer. Visible, it is a 'double-edged sword', advantages and disadvantages coexist. So college ideological work should effectively use the 'Matthew effect', promote the healthy and balanced development of education.