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Q: If you could, how would you change China's education system?
I would make all education in China free. I would raise taxes to pay for it. Teachers salaries would be the same no matter which province or city they worked in. It would be mandatory for teachers to spend at least a year in the poor villages teaching in their schools. The independant space program would be merged with the international programs. The savings would be invested directly into the poorest regions of the country. I would scrap the policy of allowing points to be purchased in the gaokao. I would also regularly gave schools audited to make sure headmasters aren't stealing funds. Those caught doing so would be executed.
I would make all education in China free. I would raise taxes to pay for it. Teachers salaries would be the same no matter which province or city they worked in. It would be mandatory for teachers to spend at least a year in the poor villages teaching in their schools. The independant space program would be merged with the international programs. The savings would be invested directly into the poorest regions of the country. I would scrap the policy of allowing points to be purchased in the gaokao. I would also regularly gave schools audited to make sure headmasters aren't stealing funds. Those caught doing so would be executed.
I think I got it right....
rasklnik:
My chem is bad...but isn't that spinning U in a nitrogen centrifuge?
diverdude1:
yeppers ..... and it sorta leads to somethin' else.... hmmmm... think it might have been a Little Boy.... lol
*for all u superLibs out there. this is just a joke. debunch your feminine undergarmets.
reduce class sizes would be a good start,,,, no, not from 60 to 55,,, more like from 60 to 15. 15 max.
Lord_Hanson's ideas plus:
1. Ban rote learning
2. Increase physical education and 'out to nature' excursions
3. Make languages (not just English) electives starting from middle school
4. Incorporate social and sexual education classes
5. Train student and behavioral counselors by the thousands
6. Reduce homework to no more than an hour per night with the extra time used for personal reflection/development.
7. Work closer with business and industry to keep the curriculum "in-touch" with required (career) skills
8. Only those with a background in education would be eligible for positions in school administration.
9. Remove the competitive nature of the classroom environment and replace it with a "personal development" one - but not the 'no child left behind' garbage.
10. All teachers would receive a living wage and benefits to match their experience and level of service.
11. Conduct thorough background checks on all school staff.
12. Allow children to be children and add more responsibility as is appropriate to their age.
13. Ditch the rankings of schools and ensure all schools ran the same curriculum (except for Music/Art Conservatories and other 'gifted' schools including special needs schools).
14. Fit and furnish all schools with modern equipment and make air/food/water quality ,along with safety standards, a top priority for senior administrators.
earthizen:
Sensible points.
Point #1, also the most important point in my opinion, puts you (and me for that matter) on the wrong foot with CCP immediately.
Why? Habitual rote learning is the cornerstone for brainwashing! It is the ultimate key to producing obedient, non-questioning, non-rebellious, politically correct (according to CCP, needless to say), model mainlanders. To abolish rote learning, to develop freethinkers is firing point blank at CCP's propaganda CPU. Should a mainlander see through this and raise this point high and long enough in CCP's eyes I can bet it constitutes treason, although the reason for his or her arrest is likely to be something else.
Paradoxically, in order for any change to occur, education first needs to break down.
Right now, it's a high-value commodity making tons of money for school owners. They don't want to see their cash cow fluctuate, so news of china's incompetent schooling is most unwelcome. The system is purposefully blind and deaf to any feedback.
Once it is widely and publicly acknowledged that even the overpriced elite schools are rubbish, it will probably bean economic disaster.
The origins of the problems lay with the Imperial learn-by-rote system. These are exactly the kinds of flaws and backward holdovers that the Chinese people hoped the original CCP would solve. They just destroyed their artifacts and cultural heritage instead.
Moving forward practically, only the CCP can denounce their own education system. This news from any other source will only invoke nationalistic responses. Problem is, CCP fat cats take a slice of all major education institutions. The only reason they'd tolerate criticism of education, is to make their own International Schools more exclusive and profitable.
So, it won't happen any time soon. I'm working to get my sons out of China so their education is not ruined. It's more of a workaround than a solution, I'm afraid.
The goal of education is truth.
China hates truth..
ergo...no education.
For starters, put English based childrens programs and cartoons on the darn TV channels. But too much money is probably given to the govt and broadcasting for this to NOT happen, as it could collapse the highly profitable ESL industry throughout China...
you could start off by point out that WWII and the Japan thing was nearly 100 years ago and hardly anyone is still alive from them days which was just a decade or so of a bunch of lunatics running a country. At the same time pointing out that as early as the 1970s West Germany had been accepted back into the fold and all of Germany was by 1990. No matter what Japan did, it pales into significance to what the Nazis did but do we still go around looking to lynch Germans? N O!
