Chinese Students' Pressure (Kindgtn&Primary School), 4, August 11th, Abrat Darcy

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My friend CrucifiedGuru (http://www.mylot.com/CrucifiedGuru) asked me, 'Under what kind of pressures are students and teachers in China?' I Kindergarten that is a really good question from an original thinker. above all, i would like to answer the former part of the question, that is, 'the chinese students' pressure'. chinese students are born to go with pressure. when a chinese child is just a kindergarten boy, his parents will usually manage to compel him to form some talents, such as piano, english, singing, dancing, chinese chess and so on. many kids are forced to learn to play the piano, the violin, the electronic organ, some chinese traditonal intruments like guzheng, erhu etc, and many other intruments including those that you cannot imagine at a time. all these so-called 'talents' are compelled. they are just kindergarten kids. most of them even know little about the real arts and haven't formed their own understanding of the real arts, i mean, the enthusiasm for the career their parents have planned for him has not been discovered by himself. but the parents are eager to do that. they are thirty to do that. they compete with each other to do that. asia, the land where i live, has a wrong motto. asians always oppress their own human nature themselves. we try to be implicit. as a consequence, many westerns will think that asians are not so 'funny' sometimes. II Primary School As is known to us all, china has got a great number of IMO(International Mathematical Olympiad) medals and even lots of IMO gold medals. some people say that is amazing. but that is not amazing in the slightest. most students and almost all students in big cities start to learn IMO mathematics upon being a primary schoolboy. IMO mathematics is far more difficult than that we learn in class at school. parents are willing to pay much money to support that. and their children will enter for all sorts of mathematics competitions each year. they receive a kind of special mathematics education when they are young, which is far different from the kids in europe and the united states. and that is not all at all. they continue learning the piano, the violin, the chinese chess, singing, dancing. so on weekends, they are even busier. their parents take them to diverse so called 'after-school activity classes' to learn this and that regardless of the children's real interests. and of course winter vacations and summer vacations are just like those weekends. so they hardly have holidays. things even get worse in metropolitans like beijing, shanghai, and other capitals of the provinces in china. let alone examinations of all subjects. every chinese student has a great deal of experience to deal with exams so i say that is not amazing at all that china gets so many IMO gold medals just because IMO is still exams. they are all experienced exam dealers. those exams including the tests of each unit, mid-term exams, end-of-term exams... and i would like to say the primary school life is even the most relaxing. Abrat Darcy, Philosopher, Philharmonic, Philitterateur. August 11th.