Situation and Improvement of Current Eduction in China

Why do we need to educate children? Why parents pay tons of money into their children’s education? Why students in China need to study from first grade to twelfth grade in compulsory?

The answer is simple: parents and governments want their children to be successful in the future. (The Only Metric That Matters in EdTech: Student Outcomes) However, the current situation in China is that students are forced to learn at school and they are under the tremendous pressure to pass the entrance examinations. (中国教育的现状与改革 & Google Translation) Students need to study knowledge in their textbooks and take frequent examinations to test whether they master what they learned. As a result, students have no time to do what they want to do because they have no time or energy to deal with other things except for learning the knowledge in textbooks. Finally, most Chinese students have an excellent ability to obey other’s demand to figure out a certain job without creating a blue ocean (Blue Ocean Strategy). The most Chinese people in a certain field are same because they accepted the same education before. That is the reason why Chinese always copy or imitate others’ efforts. So China need to change this situation.

Luckily, the technology provides a chance for China to reform the educational system. New Technology HelpingSchools Achieve Individually Tailored Education which means that although the dense population is a real situation in China, Chinese also can have a better education that respect each person’s individual development. The number of students in each class is around 60 on average. So using mobile technology is a better way for such a big classroom to learn. This is a direction of future education. China need to grasp this chance to become a more capable country.