The Downsides of the Unified Chinese Educational System in China

Education is one of the most important factors in national development. Each year, millions of children attend schools with passion and curiosity, and start being educated by teachers, schoolmates, and everything around them. Most of people are going to spend more than twelve years in school, and then they walk into the society to achieve their goals or contribute to their country. Hence, the educational system is the guarantee of both humanistic quality and national advancement. As the matter of fact, our generation will be the backbone of China in the next thirty years, and because of that, students are supposed to be taught in a proper way. Unfortunately, the unified Chinese educational system causes serious negative results on Chinese students including the lack on creation, confidence, passion, and honesty. At the same time, Chinese economy has also been damaged since many Chinese students choose to leave China because of the pressure of the system. All of these negative results imply that the Chinese students, and even the nation will sink into a plight. The “chief culprits” are the examination-oriented education and the National Higher Education Entrance Examination system. The examination-oriented education makes Chinese students taught by only looking for the answer and studying for the exam, which causes the lack on the ability and motivation of thinking. As most of Chinese people know, a big event named Cultural Revolution took place in China from 1966 through 1976. During the ten years, Chinese education experienced a huge recession. No one was allowed to go to school, all the campuses and libraries had been burned, university entrance exam had been canceled, and the worse thing was that both teachers and intellectuals were publicly insulted. After the exam system was restored in 1977, gradually it became the only way to select talented people, because most of the people in their appropriate ages to study were illiteracy during the period of the