water brain part 2 Video Clips. Duration : 7.53 Mins.
A Cartoon produced by students of Guangzhou (Canton) Academy of Art, about how Chinese middle school students suffer from the work load. In our six years of middle school studies, we study Chinese, maths, English, geography, physics, politics, history, chemistry and biology (not including PE, music and other subsidiary subjects), all of which are mandatory. We can not choose what we are interested in. Also, the studies are memory based and test oriented, which means we have to remember tons of theories, concepts, terms in order to pass exams. To do this, we need to do an incredibly amount of homework. A normal middle school kid, if she/he is to finish all the assignments, won't be able to go to bed before 12:00. The teaching is completely top-down fashion. Teachers lecture, students listen and take notes. There is no intellectual discussions at all. No personal opinion is encouraged. Those who can remember the textbooks most are the best. Each day we have about 10 classes of various subjects (which means different kinds of homework) from 7:00 to 6:00. Many schools also require senior students to take extra homework sessions in the evenings so that they can make sure that the students do their homework in the evenings instead of playing or relaxing. Upper class students go to school six days a week, but one more day off doesn't make any difference because we are so used to spend all the weekends doing homework anyway. As a result, we see our teachers and classmates longer ...
