Education
With my interests and educational background, I am teaching in China, my first-hand observation of the education in China has a unique position to do at all level, which is one of the main purpose of my original leave request, I then people. My wife and I visited the elementary, secondary, high school, as well as some community colleges; In addition, I have the opportunity to all grades of teaching at the university. I have to find that education is very different from the consequences of Chinese students than American students more certainty.
In this With a population of more than 130 million people, China has one fifth of the world's population: one person in every five people on Earth. Further complicate the problem of large-scale public, the distribution of the people. China, as the United States about the same quality of land. However, a considerable part of the region uninhabitable or sparsely populated: the non-cultivated land of the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas and the Himalayan plateau has been shown to be basically useless; half of the east of the country, the majority of the people cluster, with a good population is concentrated located in major cities and around the trading part of the land quality in this country. Of course, the different distribution and population density, so that feeding, housing, care and education of civic education an ongoing challenge, as a focus.
Every school day, more than three million students to study in the Chinese classroom. . . More than the entire population of the United States. In fact, my Chinese colleagues once related to me an instructive analogy. He explains that education in China is relatively wide, and packaging of the road leading to the narrow bridge. Farther along the Road, it is narrower. Many students were forced to endless side streets along the way. Is crowded roads are very narrow bridge known as the "secondary." If a person does not cross the bridge, to participate fully in China's economic success is extremely limited. And because few people can continue to successfully across the bridge to enter the study at tertiary level is extremely competitive.
The basic guarantee for all citizens of the ninth grade education and improve literacy in the country is one of the Government's overriding objective. However, due to the large number of education students, these goals are difficult to achieve. The average class size ranges ranging from the professional schools the number is even more the case if the demand. Better schools, small classes, so that teachers can do better. However, students. From kindergarten classes a day rule. Requires students to listen and take notes. The traditional teacher has the supreme authority, and in the classroom questions or comments from course content is insult to the teacher, and banned. Teacher aides, tutors, or in the classroom to help parents are unheard of. Rote still accounted for the silence and the rich pay attention to early on in the dominant position of the methods and student learning is the only key to success. The students spent most of a day in the classroom the remaining time dedicated to homework and any additional counseling or other supplementary programs, parents can afford. Schools at all levels, the test results to determine the caliber and quality of schools will be able to participate in the the vertices exam (national exam to complete the fourth, sixth, eighth, tenth, twelfth grade), so continue to do more determine the direction and quality of student life. I admit with some university students, their teachers and parents to the stringent requirements to them leave them little or no childhood, and they swear they will not teach their children the conditions.
