It ferociously depicts a utopia where "poor students" that cannot make it to orthodox colleges are released from the traditional concept of education and teach themselves; It dramatically draws a wonderland where "underachievers" that hold unrealistic dreams are released of human nature and find themselves ; It ideally reveals a phenomenon where "what makes a sound education" is discussed against a conventional one.
We can't help but dwell on our own teaching mode, under which everyone was once manipulated to some extent. It is broadly believed that everyone has the potential to be someone with all possibilities, thus to dig the true talent and interest out of children has been advocated for decades. However, when it comes to their own kids, parents always tend to have the same inclination to expect them to be successful both academically and in career life. We're a bunch of people who have been baptized in restraint and practicability over the centuries, all that refers to "ego" is bound to be labeled as "weird", society is willing to admit those with obedience rather than the rebels, in other words, personalities have no place to survive.
Compared to what is consistently appealed under the western social backgrounds, Chinese education endeavors to make students "blend in" a bigger community, in which only by sticking to the traditions descended from their former generations could one possibly achieve something. Lower academic qualifications and low -paid technical labors are not acceptable, students' "branches" are "cut out" to one type to blend in with others, pursuing a universal value to success that has been chased by many. A question to be asked is that "Who defined all this? Who defined what education is?"
Self-teaching may sound absurd, yet when the mainstream education council addresses "a sound education must include three bases: facility, curriculum, and faculty", self-teaching is exactly the one thing fit for those who don't or can't obey the rules made by the authority as long as they could literally discover some merit from merely being. If a group (or more) people act unsuitable to the major regulations, while they indeed are not breaking any laws, why can't their demands be heard then? Unfortunately, more realistically, even these students need a certificate to live on, and the fund to make it happen.
I, for one, am a supporter of the traditional education mode complying with the current social environment. We have too much burden on the shoulder, we have too much debt to pay, a deviated, absolute freedom purely out of one's interest doesn't exist, since we still need to be recognized, no matter by whom or what. The ones yelling "kicking maths out of SAT" are the ones who get kicked out, bummers always get excluded. Obedience is the most financial option, 'cause no one can afford to be stepped on for not being striving. If you want to change the rules, first you have to be someone making rules. If not, play clever, keep the rags inside, and live a little in your pathetic life.
View more about Accepted reviews
