Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "School for Chinese Students Feels Like Prison, Longer Hours Than 7-Eleven, No Jobs Post-grad" video.

  1. This punishing level of education in China is achieving little; the workload given to the student is also punishing to the teacher. Teachers have to mark a mountain of work produced by the student for 14 hours of education per day. The teacher's knowledge is limited as well. Teachers only can teach what they know, not what the curriculum might dictate for such a huge body of work. So essentially students probably repeat subjects often. For example, a math teacher may be required to teach both differential and integral calculus, but he/she only knows differential calculus, so the student gets another round of a topic that has already been taught. The punishing education is orchestrated at the top, not consulted top-to-bottom. This is the modern self-destructive CCP way of doing things. It is unlikely to produce excellence in education as the students will cheat as hard as possible to reduce the workload. This puts extra burden on the honest teachers to unravel plagerism in submitted work. The dishonest teachers will not care about that and deploy favouritism to speed up the marking process. The end result is wasted effort all around. The ethics of the society, as a whole, reflects on the ethics of it's education system. This is partially why China gets stuck in the middle income trap. Finally, there is a sinister mode by the government that sets the curriculum, and it is nothing to do with knowledge. Getting the students to work under a labour-camp 14 hour day conditions has another purpose; forced supervision. While youth are subjected to 14 hours of exhausting supervision, they are not plotting and rioting against the government. The unimaginative CCP only knows one mode; apply the pressure until everything breaks.
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