TO KATHY AGAIN

New Roman" color=#ff00ff size=4>Thank  you for you concern.
    I think we  have much in common as regards the present education system, which is the toughest, severest problem in china. Sometimes I think it is simply suffering from cancer and therefore incurable. How I wish someday we will be liberated. Not only we, but also a lot of others, have much concern about it too. But we need a reform, not a fight. 
    China is one of the largest countries in the world. I think there should be some order and obedience. Some countries in Africa are suffering from serious internal strife and bloodshed. People there are killing each other. The son even suspects his father to be treacherous and nonchalantly kills him instantly. There is no social order. All is in a mess. There is no even social concience, let alone responsibility for their home or country. Though there are a lot of problems in China. China is developing at a fast pace and it is now enjoying a greater prestige in the world. The people are living a better life than that of several years ago. To a large country, stability most precede prosperity. I am happy to see the great progress China is now making.

    However, I don't mean there are no problems. There are a lot of problems in China, such as corruption, environmental pollution, some violation of intellectual property caused by ineffective control of the government, etc. Such things happen in other countries too. Therefore, what we need to do is try to help the government to change them, rather than take violent measures to fight them.

    Just think of what has been happening in China in the past years, when all of the warlords were fighting against each other for supremacy. Thousands of people were killed. There was not a strong central government as the stronghold for them. People just lost the shelter from which they can take refuge. Were the people happy at that time. During the reign of the Qing Dynasty, such a small country such as Belgia invaded China as a member of the League Forces of Eight Countries. Were the people at that time happy? That is why I think we should first of all maintain stability and then we can achieve prosperity in a true sense. This has nothing to do with "Being brainwashed by something". It is only commonsense I think.

    I have a lot of complaints about our government as a victim of the present educational system. I have grievances because no one department wants to stand out and shoulder responsibility. Even the vice Minister proclaimed pathetically that the teachers should not be put to blame for the present deplorable teaching situation in China. What should be put to blame is the Educational Department of China. I am just so bewildered that who should be responsible for a change of it. Sometimes I am even in despair.

    What I can do now is to give the students enough freedom and happiness. I don't assign undue heavy homework to my students to do harm to their health. I would rather take the workload upon myself. In my class I make every effort to make them laugh and try to arouse their interests in learning, rather than by means of intimidation or assigning heavy homework instead. The students are forbidden to jump or laugh or run during class intervals. I just ask them all to go to toilet to make themselves refreshed during the ten minutes intervals. What I do is sometimes in conflict with the school rules. So the leaders don't like me. One of them even laughed at me for showing sympathy for the students. I don't know what to do or to say. Students are just citizens like us. We have no rights to treat them in a bad way.

    That is my philosophy about something in China and what I am doing now. I think what I am doing is better than just speaking loudly but doing nothing effective for the students.

    No matter what others may say, I am trying to be a responsible, considersate and all in all a good teacher. I have confidence of being one. Kathy, you are a good teacher, too, since you try to help your students to learn in many ways. You are so consciencious. But I can't do everything that you can do. We are in different teaching environment. What is more, as a college teacher, you have far more time at leisure than we do. I am only a middle school teacher, just like one of your sisters.

    Sincerely I wish to make friends with you and exchange views on different things.

    P.S.  I have been studying many years after graduation to obtain a master degree to change my then situation. However I failed due to some kind of corruption scandal. I lost heart and resigned to my fate.