I have heard continuously the greatest concerns and regrets foreigners express while pursuing their majors in chinee language, i would like to know if this also affects you and what can china do in order to improve their education system for the foreigners benefits.
Re: is the chinese education system beneficial to you?
I cannot speak for myself as I am not a student, I am however a Foreign teacher and father of a young daughter. My wife and I have decided to leave China in 10 years time because we don't believe the high school system in China is good enough, respected enough or teaches thought enough for our daughter to get the best out of her education.
What the Chinese system does do well is instill a good work ethic, (although 7am to 9pm is in my opinion overdoing even that), and so we will put our daughter through the Chinese Middle school system to teach her this aspect.
What does China need to do to improve?
1. Eradicate the widespread culture of teaching and guanxi. The best students should ALWAYS be the most intelligent not those with the richest / most powerful parents.
2. Teach thought, not just fact, why did this happen, what would happen if, type scenarios.
3. Creative thinking, logical thinking.
4. Employ genuinely qualified teachers, not just qualified in their field of expertise, but qualified in TEACHING itself.
Simply put, education should teach you HOW to think not WHAT to think.
Re: is the chinese education system beneficial to you?
>Hugh.G.Rection wrote:
thanks for your answer, am a second year student of business administration here in nanjing, but I cant even tell you what my major is all about as i lack a lot of knowledge due to the dificulty of the language, my major is in chinese language though i can speak it fluently ( as they often say it to me) but still cant read the books in chinese, cant understand no answer chinese exam questionpapers or hardly do, its really a great challenge for those of us pursuing our majors in chinese language.