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Chinese
language course. To adapt to examinations, beautiful
writing in the textbook are dismembered into characters,
words, sentences and chapters, and teaching becomes
largely the training of skills to provide answers. Someone
told a story about contradiction between examination-oriented
education and a student's creative thinking. A Chinese-language
teacher asks his students: after snow is melted, what
does it become? Some say "water;" others say
"mud;" and one student says: "when it
is melted, snow becomes spring." The last answer
is clever and has a poetic flavor. But the student will
get zero marks according to the standard answer.
In the present
era when science and technology develops at a rapid
pace, society has all-encompassing requirements on the
quality of people. A person should have a high moral
standard, be healthy both physically and mentally, have
a rational knowledge structure, be innovative, have
a sense of competition, a healthy ability to communicate
with people and abilities to cooperate, to self-study
and to adapt. All these are basic qualities required
of a person by the times. Education is a systems engineering
project. Its function is not limited to disseminating
knowledge to students. Schools have the responsibility
to provide guidance in a wide range of areas for their
students. It is this very process that examination-oriented
education
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