THE PRESENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

    New Roman" size=5>Due to Kathy's introduction, I read an article on China Daily on the present educational system in China. Most of what he said is true to the core I think. However I am still skeptical about whether the people at the lowest rank of the society can have the chance to get higher education in the hope of changing their fates as they so often desire, if the present educational system is overhauled.

    I was born into a peasant's family, which had got a favourable treatment during the reign of Chairman Mao, who is so often than not, accused of dictatorship now. Thanks to the present educational system, I was endowed with an opportunity to enter the college to be trained and my life had thereby made a drastic turn, for otherwise I would be in the fields ploughing the poor barren land, which is hard work and what is reaped every year is not enough to feed my  family. I am from the lowest rank of the society.

    The educational system has changed a lot. The changes are not favourable with the poor people, the rising college fee for example. A lot of families are made poor because their longing wishes to have their children educated, especially in a university. Usually a family will have to invest all their lifelong earnings in the education, and as a result they have became destitudes. What a tragedy it is for they to see that after even a university education their kids are still unable to find a job, to make a decent living. However the dim the hope is, they have something to aim at. If there was not a strict educational system which is widely acknowledged as the most fair and honest system in China, how can they have the smallest hope to change their destiny?

    I have not many favourable feelings towards the present system, and the comparative fairness of the present college entrance system is to my like.

    What I hate most is the heavy pressure on the students, especially the primary and middle school students, who are still  young and immature, and they have to shoulder the responsibility for their "bubble" future. They have to toil laboriously at least 10 hours a day while their parents can enjoy an easy and comfortable life, rising at 9 in the morning and leaving work at 5 in the afternoon. WHAT A CONTRADICTION IT IS! The young suffer and the growups enjoy. And we say the children are the hope of the future. I think they have become the victims of the future, with thick glasses on and a weak body limpering around.

    So far as the healthy condition of the present youngsters is concerned, I think the government has ruined at least two generations, and the present educational system is being pushing forward.