ldnsouth ：
Yes but this is a Chinese book so that will change everything.
是的，但这是中国的书，这会改变一切

PlainClothes
Isn't it all on YouTube ?
youtube上不是全有么？

Mike Travis ：
That's great but how do you become a well rounded Citizen if education is purely instrumental towards getting a good job. Where is the time to learn history philosophy arts if you are purely focusing on becoming or Engineer or Doctor. I'm reminded of when I worked in the Middle East the universities there churned out engineering graduates but nobody knew any history literature. Literally they never read or studied anything outside of their discipline unless it was the Koran. It makes for a generation of what Nietzsche calls inverse cripples impoverished by specialist. John Dewey wrote about how education was critical to sustain a democratic society. The democratic citizen is created through pedagogical institutions and that includes receiving a rounded education. With our post-truth politics and democracy creaking after Trump and Brexit it would be wise to understand this.
这挺好，但假如将教育纯粹作为获取好工作的手段又如何成为一个全面的公民？假如你只想成为工程师或医生那哪有时间来学习历史哲学艺术？我想起我在中东工作的日子，大学批量生产工程类毕业生，但没人知道一点历史文学。准确来说，他们不会读超出他们学科的书除非是古兰经。这造就了尼采称之为被专业逆向削弱的一代。约翰杜威曾写过教育对维持一个民主社会至关重要。民主的公民需要通过教育机构来培养，那包括接受全面的教育。在脱欧和川普当选总统之后，后真相的政治和民主举步维艰，所以明白这个道理才是明智的。

Dorothy Granville
British children do not lag behind Chinese. In comparison tests all British children were included while only the top performing Chinese children from their top performing schools were included.
I taught in an international school and found Chinese pupils to be very quiet conscientious and hard working but they were unable to work cooperatively could not frx questions or participate in discussion. They had been taught by rote and drilling. While rote learning has its uses for example in learning times tables developing critical thinking the ability to debate and argue logically and how to apply knowledge are far more important.
英国孩子不比中国孩子落后。在这个对比测试中，英国所有孩子都参加了，而中国参与其中的仅仅是表现特别优秀的孩子。
我曾经在一个国际学校里教过书，发现中国的学生都相当谨慎和刻苦，但却不懂得合作、不会解决问题和参与讨论。他们一直教受于死记硬背。虽然死记硬背有其用途，例如学习乘法表，但是发展批判性思维、辩论、逻辑推理和应用知识的能力更为重要。

MikeHarold ：
with all that rote learning they have do to the kids probably dont have time or the energy for it
他们教孩子们的死记硬背，孩子们可能根本没时间和精力去学习。

ID660002 ：
The UK government once again failed to understand the 'Chinese Maths' secret is not about the textbook it's about 2 to 3 levels higher and more advanced knowledge teachers will deliver based on their textbooks.
英国政府又搞错了，中国数学的秘密不在于教科书，而在于老师在教科书的基础上会向学生传授高两到三个级别的数学知识。。

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