Two things recently made me wonder how much our students value their education, or indeed appreciate the fact that they have access to a free system that is designed to provide them with a future.
On BBC2, the documentary Chinese School gave us a taste of how children in China are taught, working as an experiment to assess whether similar teaching methods would improve British students’ grades. They did.
However, the most critical message underpinning this series was the respect that Chinese students have for their education. It is considered a privilege; they feel a responsibility to work hard, to learn, to make something of themselves. They are motivated. One of the Chinese teachers noted that “knowledge changes one’s destiny”, and he could not be more right.
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