Thought-Provoking and Worrisome Aspects of Our Primary and Secondary Education

Abstract

All school work can be summed up in one phrase: nurturing and cultivating new people for the next generation. If so, what kind of characteristics should such "new people" possess? In the "Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Reform of the Education System," we can find a rather clear description and explanation of these characteristics. People have discussed these characteristics and attempted to describe them from many different angles and perspectives. However, putting words aside, when we observe the current conditions of primary and secondary education in our country we will find that there are, over the issue of "what kind of people we are nurturing and cultivating," quite a few phenomena that bear contemplation and would lead us to worry and be concerned.