Why don't Chinese children have their own opinions?
Writing section is arguably the most difficult part of TOEFL test, especially for Chinese students. Not only typing above 300 words in a limited time is challenging, but expressing substantial opinion of test takers pull out their own hair for Chinese students, who are never educated to form their own opinions.There are multifaceted factors contributing.
Way of parenting education in China takes mainly role for the result. Children's initial values, such as kindnesses, honesty, and loyalty, are from their parents. Not what parents teaching is inappropriate, but the way they teaching is. They get used to forcing their children to obey their opinions rather than asking children how they think. Children who doubt their parents are considered black sheep and punished accordingly. Thus as time passes, children become increasingly obedient and don't propose their opinions any more. Moreover, it kills most precious curiosity of children at their best age.
As growth of children, schooling education start to exert more influences on their thoughts. Forming own opinion is not encouraged by school, same as in family. Good teaching form, like class discussion, which is popular and considered highly stimulating opinions forming in western world, is rarely seen in Chinese classroom. On the contrary, subjects as physics and math, are extremely emphasized for easily quantized as score to rank. Above subjects require tremendous exercises to achieve high score as need of entering higher school, which is stressful, time-consuming, and suffering opinion forming.
Reading regularly is not all the rage in China. Nevertheless, opinions come from the process of absorbing others' opinions plus one's own thinking. In other words, forming opinions requires input in advance, like reading and discussion. Children in China are not encouraged to read regularly. Moreover, reading books not related to school testing is strongly obstructed by parents and teachers, for sake of being useless in term of improving score. Besides, schooling stress has taken up almost all time and energy of children, for whom squeezing out leisure time itself is luxury enough already.
Sum up, in contemporary, education sense caused this chronic phenomenon. Fortunately, quite a few people have been aware of root causes of this issue and actively made revolution of education in developed areas in China, in spite of we have to wait a long time before seeing the effect.
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