Rethinking the Missing Education 800 Essay

What needs to be done to change the education system in China? How is the education system today? For us as students, this is a topic that concerns our future. China's education reform is proceeding slowly and steadily, but some of the reforms of the system, such as the "burden reduction", we have repeatedly raised the question: "The government said that the burden reduction, we really reduce the burden? We have repeatedly asked the question, "If the government says it will reduce the burden, do we really have to reduce it? When the education system is better, the cultural quality of China as a whole will go up, and we will not have to stick to the old ways, or the things left to us by our ancestors. We will be able to innovate ourselves, research and develop ourselves, manufacture ourselves, and fight for ourselves! Here are a few topics we've compiled on China's education reform.

I. Education to the Test

First of all, I have excerpted a report from the Boston Globe - "Chinese Education in the Eyes of American Middle School Students: It's All About the Tests":

I am a product of both private elementary education and public middle school education in the United States, and as such, I am accustomed to the very noisy classrooms. In contrast, the classroom atmosphere at Beijing No. 1 Middle School seemed dull to me. Even though the students in my classes at the Boston Latin School were unregulated and rowdy, I learned much more from my Latin teacher than I did at this Beijing middle school.

Chinese students memorize and do oral exercises all day long. Their entire education is geared toward memorizing everything that is likely to show up on the middle and high school exams. That's understandable, because admissions to Chinese public high schools and universities are based entirely on scores. And the competition for students who want to get into top schools is quite high.

And Chinese students' homework is more rigorous than that of all American students, a situation that is especially acute in big cities and affluent suburbs and counties. These students are under more pressure than most American students can imagine.

Not only that, but Chinese homework can seem hollow and overly restrictive to American students, who are accustomed to free debate and discussion in class.

The Chinese school curriculum has very little room for free play. There seems to be only one formula for everything. Homework is the same in every class, only papers are done, and essays are rarely required. No novels are taught in class, and the teachers only encourage reading history books outside of class. Classes are designed to instill as much knowledge as possible in as little time as possible, and are entirely devoted to preparing students for entrance exams.

Students lacked opportunities to discuss and digest what they were learning, and even fewer participated in political discussions outside of class. Chinese middle school students have little experience in the decision-making and critical thinking that Americans see as an integral part of their education. Chinese schools have many strengths, but they do not produce philosophers.

I'm afraid it's only fair to look at Chinese education from a foreigner's point of view. "Their whole education is devoted to memorizing everything that is likely to come up on the test." This is a one-sentence summary of our Chinese education from an American student. You can read the text on the screen. For American students, Chinese education is archaic, empty, meticulous, and only prepares for tests. Chinese classrooms are always so dull, take our class as an example, the number of people who raise their hands to speak is really few. On the other hand, in the American classroom, there may be no discipline to speak of, and of course, there is no need for a disciplinarian. But that kind of activity can't be seen in a Chinese classroom. Even in open classes, it's so fake that it's scary. The teacher almost always arranges things in advance, and the students are just reporting on the performance. Okay, let's get back to the point. What kind of system is test-based education, anyway?

Education to the test, is a very old, once very civilized, after several vicissitudes after the re-emergence of the great powers of the name of the education system. But as time progresses, this education system has been criticized. Some people even say that "test-based education is like a stinking gale, scraping the whole country up and down the face, dirty to the extreme, everywhere it brings the pandemonium."

Once I read some of Han Han's articles, which also raised a lot of questions about test-based education. For example, how many of those functions and physics and chemistry are used in life? For ordinary people, if it is not the work demand, simply do not need those things. The problem of teaching to the test is really serious, but it can't be solved in a few days, a few months, or a few years, and that's why, despite Han Han's many years of struggle with education, it's still not getting better. But thankfully, in some places, schools and teachers have begun to "reform".

And why do so many Chinese prefer to "export"? Obviously, foreign education is better than Chinese education! The first thing you need to do is to go to a famous foreign school, rather than a famous Chinese school! To put it bluntly, if you were to choose, Tsinghua or Harvard, which would you choose? China's test-based education will give you high grades, high, high grades, so high that you'll be scared to death if you look down. But what else can it give you besides grades? Chinese students, with poor hands-on skills, inactive minds, and no creativity, have been boxed in by test-based education, which, to be clear, means that they can't think of anything except what they are taught in textbooks and memorized by themselves! It is already recognized. So the foreign universities to China to enrollment, will not look at the Chinese students' performance, but the potential, to put it bluntly, the foreign universities are not so stupid, recruit students will not be a nerd, that is, we say "high scores and low ability".

The disadvantages of teaching to the test*** are four.

One, test-based education concentrates on the cultural education of students and neglects to cultivate the quality of students, which is why the quality of education has declined nowadays.

Two, on quality education and practice, and the metamorphosis of education reform.

Three, education and the lack of a person, a nation, a country Preface

What is China's education system going to change? How is the education system today? For us as students, this is a topic that concerns our future. China's education reform is proceeding slowly and steadily, but some of the reforms of the system, such as "reducing the burden", we have repeatedly raised the question: "The government says reduce the burden, we really reduce the burden? We have repeatedly asked the question, "If the government says it will reduce the burden, do we really have to reduce it? When the education system is better, the cultural quality of China as a whole will go up, and we will not have to stick to the old ways, or the things left to us by our ancestors. We will be able to innovate ourselves, research and develop ourselves, manufacture ourselves and fight for ourselves! Here are a few topics we have compiled on China's education reform.