同意，并且同情！ 我有一个在语言文字方面极有天份的六年级的女儿！她热爱写作与阅读。但是，她非常明白，如果要想作文拿A+，就不能写自己的真心话，一定要顺着老师的意思来写！课堂上的回答，最好也要猜着老师希望你答什么！ 慢慢地，学校的语文成为女儿最讨厌的一门课！ 我只好为她在校外另请了一位可以与她平等交流对话的语文老师！ 在这种培养顺民而不是培养公民的环境中，自己想办法适者生存吧！

@ Dawn In China, I believe there are special programs for the gift children. In science, the Chinese gift children were assigned to work with the scientists after school during their years at high school. Admission to the well known college in China by exam is not the only way. Qualification and recommendations are the essential parts for admission. As you mentioned that your daughter did good at her early age in school but failure in the later days. Meeting the requirements in compliance is the key to succeed. She have to comply with the teachers requirements. My daughter have a choice to study abroad at HKU, HKUST and Peking University. She didn't need to take the admission exam.

我觉得在这种各国友人都登陆的网站上讨论咱们国家自己的事还是慎重点说。 我觉得这种教育制度是咱们现在的国情决定的，而且我觉得挺好。 这么多人需要上大学，肯定要有一个选拔的方式，国家没有能力让所有人都上清华、北大这种学校。 而且以我的出身，我也挺赞同这种考试制度，如果取消的话，估计我都没机会上大学，可能我上大学的名额就被哪个有门路的人抢了呢，而现在至少我可以通过自己的努力上大学，哪怕落榜了，我也心甘情愿，只能说我技不如人，不管是知识的掌握，还是考试的技能，至少不用埋怨父母让我出身不好。而且我觉得中国教育使我们的基础知识打得很牢固，就像楼上这位所说的，中国人出去后排名都很靠前，也许会说中国人会考试，我觉得不尽然。虽然从某种程度上禁锢了我们的创新能力，但也不是一无是处的。而且在这种教育制度下，也有很多有创新力的人才。所以我还是在自身找原因！ 而且我觉得随着国家的发展，教育制度也会有改变的

@ John There is some culture background need to be clarified. Generally, what we, the Chinese people live in the mainland, talk about Chinese Education mainly (99.99%) refers to the education within the system set up by the government (from grade 1 to grade 12, 9 of them are free.). In Chinese, it is called:体制教育. In another word, 学校教育, school education. So you can understand what the Chinese Education we have been talking about here in these days is in a very narrow sense defined by the mere fact in China, excluding ECE (early children education), kindergarten education, or online education, which you thought is 'a damn good system'. Unfortunately, the system in your words is not the one in ‘Chinese Education System’. Basically, most people criticize, or even, condemn, Chinese Education that it only focuses on exam preparation. We call it 应试教育, examination-oriented education. Actually I don’t think应试教育 should be the target. Like some italki fellows said that this system provides kind of equal opportunities for Chinese ordinary people after all. If preparing examinations is the main or only goal of the schools, if we choose them, we shouldn’t blame. How can you go to a bookstore for grocery, and then complain they cannot serve you well and fulfill your need? The funny thing, which is kind of a myth, is that Chinese schools aren’t doing good jobs on examination-oriented education. Students and parents invest a lot yet crop lean. I think this should be the real target of criticism.

If you are a Chinese, grew up in China, logged on to this site, able to discuss or criticize Chinese education, by the mere fact of that, it is a good education system. It does not mean it can't be improved, it has proven it is a damn good system. In stead of saying what you think in terms of your feeling, why not say something how the system can improve and in what area. Remember this saying: If you don't have a solution to the problem, the problem is not a problem.