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China debates as student lambasts exams
Wednesday April 18, 2012 09:03:16 AM,
IANS
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Shanghai: A school
student has spoken up against the country's exam-oriented
education system, triggering debate in China.
Jiang Chengbo, a student at Huilong High School in Jiangsu
province, delivered a critical speech at a weekly flag-raising
ceremony April 9, reported Shanghai Daily.
He said: "Investigation has shown Chinese students rank at the
bottom of the world in terms of calculation ability and
creativity."
"Some of us live in jealousy," he added.
He went on: "They are jealous of those who score higher in exams
... Some of us live in loneliness. They bury themselves in doing
exercises so that they don't have any good friends. We cannot feel
the love of parents, for they are either at work or pushing us to
prepare for exams... We cannot feel the respect of teachers, for
they are always forcing us to study for their enrollment rates."
Jiang's speech took the teachers completely by surprise as it was
not the original one that had been approved.
The speech was well received by students and also by internet
users.
A school student said that student life is colourless and there is
no all-round development because "scores are everything".
Yu Han, another student, said that "although Jiang's words are a
little exaggerated, the examination-oriented education has greatly
oppressed the nature of the students".
"Benliuweizhi" wrote on the microblogging site Weibo.com: "It is
not strange to hear those words from the mouth of a high school
student, and Jiang's courage to speak up is admirable."
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