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Originally Posted by bulldogg Here in the Mainland, yes, the Chinese system of education is based on rote memorisation and copying. To say this is wrong is a judgement based on a completely different value system. Think of it in these terms... Chinese has approximately 60,000 characters and to be literate you need to know how to write 6,000 or them, how else would you learn it in a classroom of 60 students and 1 teacher? You have to copy it from the person next to you. Its an entirely different culture. |
Well, there goes the lack of ingenuity and innovation.... Can't say much about an educational system where if you don't get an extremely good grade on the high school exam you're gonna have a hell of a hard time getting into a college at all, and you're probably going to head off to acrobatic school or be a farmer.... unless you have rich parents of course where you'll be sent an American boarding school or to the US itself to attend one of those highly publicized and overrated colleges.