I stepped out onto the outdoor patio of the Suzhou cafe to find a group of five young girls uncomfortably squeezed onto two wooden benches, the table between them crowded with Chinese workbooks, cups of coffee and glasses of tea. They chirped and chittered at each other, disgorging passages of memorized text and frantically flipping through worn pages of exercises.
I asked them if they were studying for their college entrance examinations. They all called out, “Yes!” in unison, and tittered at the odd Westerner who took an interest in what they were doing. “When is the exam?” I asked.
“This afternoon!” they responded in perfect cadence. The question seemed to remind them they had better get back to work. They buried their heads back in the workbooks and mumbled Chinese mnemonics to themselves, now self-conscious.
Last week’s New York Times said of the examination system, called gaokao:
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In taking care of children, every parent will come across the situation of having to deal with a feverish child. As young children are unable to tell their parents exactly how they feel, it can be very frustrating to know what to do especially at nights when medical advises are not readily available. In order to manage this situation rationally and effectively, some understanding of the cause of fever is necessary. Fever is one of the defence mechanisms used by the body in dealing with invasion of disease causing organisms. Therefore it is important to realise that it is an important function helping to restoring the body to health. Having said this, it should not be forgotten that it is still one of the signs of warning indicating the existence of illness.
Education is important to China's future, and education reform has been a long drawn-out complex process, which people of all stripes agree has basically been inadequate. From the early days of Project Hope corruption to the current education spending that still hasn't reached the 4%-of-GDP target set by the central government, people have much to complain about. Among all the problems, one most depressing had to have been that basic primary/secondary education required all kinds of fees and therefore no universal access to education existed.
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