初一關(guān)于教育的英語(yǔ)作文

　　Throughout the millennia, students of all ages in China have had to endure the miseries of learning by rote. Teachers have stifled creativity in the pursuit of the accumulation of facts, and parents have forced children to spend mind-numbing hours cramming for exams. But for the past year, the government has been experimenting with what could amount to revolutionary changes in China's classrooms. The aim is to make education more pleasant, more useful and, above all, to challenge students to think for themselves.

　　What has prompted the reforms is a belated recognition that China's education system is failing to produce enough innovative thinkers. In addition, students are deeply unhappy. A survey conducted by the Education Ministry five years ago found more than 80% of students disliked school. Dropout rates have been rising in rural areas—partly for economic reasons but also because of the stultifying atmosphere of their classrooms. Exam pressures frequently lead to suicides. According to a survey last year among senior secondary-school students and university freshmen in one area, more than 50% had considered killing themselves.

　　Several other countries in East Asia, including Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, are grappling with similar problems. But the implications of China's reform efforts are particularly profound. China's traditional education methods are ideally suited to a political culture that requires citizens to submit blindly to authority. By encouraging students to question their teachers and regard them as equals (even official literature now talks of fostering a “democratic” atmosphere in classrooms), China could be ushering in a new kind of relationship between the rulers and the ruled.

　　整個(gè)幾千年,在中國(guó)所有年齡段的學(xué)生不得不忍受苦難的死記硬背。老師扼殺創(chuàng)造力的追求事實(shí)的積累,和家長(zhǎng)迫使孩子花的小時(shí)死記硬背的考試。但在過(guò)去的'一年里,政府一直在嘗試什么革命性的變化在中國(guó)的教室。目的是使教育更愉快、更有用,最重要的是,挑戰(zhàn)學(xué)生獨(dú)立思考。

　　什么促使改革是一個(gè)遲來(lái)的承認(rèn),中國(guó)的教育系統(tǒng)是無(wú)法產(chǎn)生足夠的創(chuàng)新的思想家。此外,學(xué)生感到非常不滿(mǎn)。五年前教育部進(jìn)行的一項(xiàng)調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn),超過(guò)80%的學(xué)生不喜歡學(xué)校。農(nóng)村輟學(xué)率一直在上升的經(jīng)濟(jì)原因,還因?yàn)橛薮赖慕淌业臍夥铡＝?jīng)常考試壓力導(dǎo)致自殺。去年的一項(xiàng)調(diào)查顯示,在高級(jí)中學(xué)學(xué)生和大學(xué)新生在一個(gè)地區(qū),超過(guò)50%的人認(rèn)為是自殺。

　　其他幾個(gè)國(guó)家在東亞,包括日本、韓國(guó)和臺(tái)灣,也面臨著類(lèi)似的問(wèn)題。但中國(guó)的改革努力的影響尤為深刻。中國(guó)傳統(tǒng)的教育方法是適合一個(gè)政治文化,需要公民提交盲目權(quán)威。通過(guò)鼓勵(lì)學(xué)生質(zhì)疑老師和把他們視為等于(甚至現(xiàn)在官方文學(xué)對(duì)話培養(yǎng)“民主”的氣氛中在教室),中國(guó)可能成為引領(lǐng)一種新的統(tǒng)治者和被統(tǒng)治者之間的關(guān)系。