Want to know more on chinese education system

drunkhomer said:

My home stay's son started school at 8am and didnt finish til 6:30pm.....

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my elementary school in china used to start at 7:30am, and there're all those extra classes after school. officially those classes were suppose to end at 5:30pm, but you know how chinese teachers are "dedicated" to work so we normally go off at 6:00 ~ 6:30pm. and that brings up another point, a lot of the teachers are too dedicated IMO and they would keep going into the recess and stuff, sometimes even taking time from the next class, then the teacher of the next class gets mad and takes time out of the next next class, etc. it was basically 4 hours without break... (we go home for lunch, morning session ends at 11:30 and afternoon session starts at 2:00, but that's just for my old elementary school).

Hmm...sounds pretty similiar to the Taiwanese education system...

By the time you get to middle school, you generally start school around 6:30~7:00, and don't get out until 6:00~7:00, depending on what classes you took. In addition, nearly everyone goes to a "bushiban" for extra classes, in fact most teachers assume you go so they incorporate some of the extra stuff you learn in the bushibans to the normal courses, making it pretty much mandatory.

In my mother's day they'd (teachers) often "borrow" athletics time to teach math...

Pretty strong emphasis on "education", if you can call cranking out students who are only good at taking tests education.

Of course it's been getting better recently, but apparently there are parallels that can be drawn with Chinese schools.

drunkhomer said:

i went 2 china during the summer of 2000 on a school exchange program for a month and boy i can tell u, chinese students face WAY more stress and WAY BIGGER work loads then the avg Canadian students. My home stay's son started school at 8am and didnt finish til 6:30pm.....students in canada usualy start around 8:30am-and end at around 3:00pm. I'm impressed at how well alot of chinese students can speak english quite decently.

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ja, trust me, today, chinese universities are screwed, so everyone who could pay the money could go to universities. chinese universities are nothing but sh*tpool now, well, over 50% of them are. they are not what they used to be, and educate people to be smart or anything. ever since 1989, the nation is not letting the high educated people to have some great affects in the country anymore, so they get all the screwed up people (does this count as swear?) into universities, therefore the "gold percentage" of an univeristy student is lowering and lowering. today chinese say "university students are just like dogs on the street". no respect, no halo, no nothing. well, they just let the halo go themselves anyway.

so you people say, oh they study so hard, ja right, they are still in the dreams. they ARE studying hard, and when they get into university, they will be milk under the hot sun, soon, spoiling.
trust me, i've seen it with my own eyes, i saw how my classmates in china in their first year of university, studying so hard and swearing to get into grad school, or going overseas and this and that. then the next year, you see them getting lazier, now in their forth year, all the talk about is playing baskball today, or playing internet game (such as warcraft) EVERY SINGLE DAY.

that's what i say, yes, i said it, and i will say it again, these people **** disgrace the name of university student, they put shame on the 5000 years of "scholars" of this nation. and i put a plague on them.
shame for me, i am here in canada, can't do anything about this............


i guess i am off topic, but........sign....delete this reply if you will, i might lost faith in this nation.

Hi Red Guard

What you say might be true, but I think you are being too harsh. University should not be only allow to few of smartest. I think it is a good thing that lot more people could attend college nowadays. It is nothing to shame of that today there are more chinese could go to University. It is just they should do more to improve the quality of teaching.

In the west they do have a better education system. There would be always college on the top, the second best, then good, then normal and the one just for fun. So everyone could go to college, but the quality of Universities are better manage.

China and Taiwan fellows the US system of education, which is good idea. But there would be many bump in the road, until they make it work better. It take time to built reputation for many of the Unversity, and I serious think you should not put university student above other people. Every people should be respective, not base on his education but his personality.

I still have faith for China evevthrough there are many problems that should be resolve.