(Education)
Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 5:22 AM
China was one of the earliest countries that established a national educational system that was unmatched in its completeness.
According to legend, Chinas educational system was initiated during the Wudi period. The educational system during the Wudi period was known as Cheng Jung. A system of elementary school and college already existed during Emperor Shuns time.
Education, one of the fundamental Chinese traditions entered to a new era of deep transformation with arouses of new P.R.C. As a vital tool of centralization and unification, it faces several fundamental technical problems.
It will not affect only the future development of young P.R.C, but also questions the legitimacy of communist dictatorship and its avocation as whole.
The creation of a new education system
•FundingIn order to expand the school with the conception of schooling for all, from children of kindergarten to alienate peasants, teachers and wherewithal are needed.
•Six years of primary school.
•Three years of junior middle school, three years of senior middle school.•Six years of university.
•Varieties of technical and vocation schools are invented.
•New text book with a heavy soviet influence.
•Popularization of Putonghua and introduction of simplified characters.As a result of this tremendous effect, according to the P.R.C government’s source, in 1985 numbers of children in kindergarten rises to 30 million, primary schools rises to 86 million, and secondary school rises to 10 million.
•Intellectuals are sent away to the countryside and factories in order to accomplish and participate to the national primary objective. In addition, it reduces intellectual’s arrogance and their cultural gap with lower educated people. Schools are closed few days a week and students are required to work in school factories.
•Kids are given preferential admission to higher learning institution. The academic standards declined markedly. As the result of failure of Great leap forward, the education system returns to its pre-1957 standard. Key schools are established.
