What did I obtain from the previous school education in China? Can the skills I have learnt really make me a better person? Sadly however, instead of creativity and the spirit of discovery, the only thing I have learnt is pretty much "how to score well in the crazy exams". As for me, a sphere of whole new particular knowledge can not evoke my interest of searching or discovering already. The first thing comes out in my mind is the exam format and even questions involved, which means I have already become an "exam machine" that can only figure out so call CORRECT ANSWER.
Is there a CORRECT ANSWER for everything? Obviously, the answer is NO. However, in order to test the "ability" of the students as we can acquire and get familiar with the knowledge we should know, schools, sadly, have no other choices but to set a particular and only answer for everything. That is totally understandable for us, because it is so far the most efficient and fair system which can tell whether a student has good understanding in certain knowledges.(At least in China, because of a large population.) Within this circumstance, chinese students are sharply less creative than students in America, Europe, Japan and some other countries. A country with a population of 1.3 billion people have never nurtured a single Nobel Price winner? Not only inappropriate, it is ridiculous.
So, in a word, creativity is what the world need and should be the purpose of education, but for some reason, what students go through may not help them to reach that aim.
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Hi chen chen (this is your first comment o.o)
ReplyDeleteYour raised 2 rather strong points, which would be the defeated purpose of tests and the exam machine which are well-supported. However, the topic says schools promote correctness over creativity, which means that you should focus on other stuff in school as well, and not only exams.
Also, there are some grammatical errors in your essay.
Nobel Prize not Price. :)
ReplyDeletePerhaps you can give more examples about how the school promotes correctness over creativity, and that would mean citing examples from other aspects of school life, such as how teachers teach students.
You should also talk about other countries other than China, so that your essay is more convincing.