More than 500 security guards working at Peking University were admitted to graduate schools or became university instructors¹ in the last 20 years, a recent report revealed.

 

过去20年间，在北京大学工作的500多名保安获准进入研究生学院或成为大学讲师。
 

 

This figure from one of China's most prestigious² post-secondary institutions transforms the stereotype³ that security guards are under-educated.

 

Their achievements may not seem as glittery as the number of Chinese obtaining degrees overseas, but with a full-time⁴ job and family to take care of they have to exert more effort than many on studying.

 

Netizens have therefore joked that "Peking University security guards are truly 'crouching⁵ tigers and hidden dragons'."

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