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| Dear Premier, While I enjoy teaching and living in China ( for the last two years ) I find it somewhat bizarre the way teachers turn a blind eye to students cheating during exams, sleeping in class, reading magazines and sending text messages during class. This is not allowed in my country. I even know of teachers who take money from students for answers to exam papers, as well as falsify exam results. I see a great deal of Chinese education being based on a half-hearted sort of authoritarianism, without any encouragement or praise of students who do well.Education is for the benefit of students - not for the benefit of teachers and leaders - or even you! (with all due respect).Education is about creating a whole person who is prepared to be a useful citizen - it is not just about passing exams or being present in a classroom. Sometimes the preservation of an institution becomes more important than the reason for which the institution was created. I have some students who work very hard and get no encouragement and I have many students who are just wasting there time before they become one of the masses of unemployed. I am also shocked by what little knowledge so many students have about the world and their own country.Anyway, the few hard working and keen students make my job worthwhile. I like living in China and have been made welcome by most people here,this balanced by the nationalism and xenophobia from a few; and we should always questions those things we love. It's either that or not caring at all. All the best. [
2007.03.15 22:47 ] |
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