What are you unsatisfied about China's education system?

[Mingguo Li]

I don't think there is any education system that everyone is satisfied with. There are always restrictions in every society, like financial and human resources, cultural and social limits. But it doesn't mean we should refrain ourselves from giving critiques to this system.
Maybe we can ask in another way: what's your ideal education system like?

[Mingguo Li]

Here's a list of things I dislike about my education from primary school to high school:
1. lack of career orientation. Many students are unsure which major/career path to choose after College Entrance Exam.
2. Exam-oriented education. Exam might be unavoidable, but there so many trade-offs: mentality of competition, over-stress, ignorance of other aspects of learning, and the ability of critical thinking and creativity.
3. Corporal punishment. It's not that corporal punishment itself is bad, but the long-term psychological effects on students' mind is. If students start to fear authorities like teacher, he's likely to have difficulty in effective communication in workplace in the future.
4. Lack of emotional and sex education. It might be a taboo in society but schools have to take the first step to face it.
5. Some teachers' lack of professionalism. This exists in other jobs as well. But teachers should be required to be more professional because of the nature of their jobs.
6. Lack of co-curricular activities.
7. Political propaganda in Chinese, history and politics courses. Sometimes I really feel that our education is trying to make everyone the same kind of person, who has the same emotion, know the same thing, have the same opinions.
8. too much time in school.
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[Mingguo Li]

But there are also quite a number of good points in our education as well:
1. compared to students in other countries, Chinese students have better results in maths, thanks to our exam-oriented education method.
2. We are more hardworking. It could be taken as a virtue if you like.
3. promotion of individualism in a group culture, thanks to the fierce competition of exams. (I am not sure if it's a convincing good point.)

[Silu Ma]

I totally agree with you on these points.

Now we are just seeking for an optimal choice for young people who are passionate about their life, but not satisfied with the current education!

Where are all those resources from?
Books, websites, internet communities, older generation, peers, school teachers...

How to balance the life for which we can have the same voice from different aspects?

[LEE]

挣扎了半天..还是用中文算了..

这几个点确实总结得多好的,但是NO OFFENSE哈,我觉得哈,与其列举体系的不足,或者描述理想的体系,或者指望体系短时间内能有啥子改变,不如想哈咋个在这个XX的体系头挣扎、混巴适,个人做这个XX体系不能做的来完善个人.毕竟在当前形式下,黑多事情还是要靠自己（个案无意义~我就不举例了哈）。毕竟这个世界上有种东西叫INTERNET得嘛,还有种东西叫自强不息得嘛.虽然不是容易的事,但是总不可能一直等一直等一直批一直批等到它改巴适三，总要个人做点啥子三。这儿存在的意义不豆是勒个咩？

[Silu Ma]

哎呀，你也说得多好的。等我考试完了我就来好生摆下。星期五就完了。

[Mingguo Li]

hi, 当然我们只能做的是在这个不够完善的体制中挣扎。但并不代表我们需要对此满意。这个教育制度真正为社会带来很多问题，而且也让很大一部分学生不开心，没有发挥自己的潜能。需要有热情与足够知识的人来管理这个系统，而并非让一群害怕批评的官僚让它无限延续下去。这论坛的目的很大程度上是希望让人参与这种讨论。如果不感兴趣或者认为此事无意义者并不需要违背他们的意愿。
当然如此一来 它可能会被批评过于理想化。但我们无法像立法委员那样做出一系列教育法律条规及政策改革。
没有国家的教育系统是完美的，所以我并无意藉这些差距而让人抱怨与沮丧。

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