Some Thoughts on Current Education in China
...e, a degree or a post-graduate degree has become a luxury that everyone wants. But when everybody has something, that thing becomes worthless. Gold is sought after because it is expensive and hard to find, but if everybody changed their attitude to gold, its value would drop. So, in the same way, education, like the currency of a bankrupt country, is becoming devalued as more people have degrees. It takes ever-higher qualifications to get a job. Once a degree-holder was respected and listened to. Now he or she is just another job-seeker or employee. The new environment around me was very attractive and exciting . I met many people and most of them became my friends . Before that period I used to be shy , so time and time again I told myself : it’s a new world to you , so you should be brave enough to talk to other people . Because of this faith , I took part in many student associations . For example , I joined in associations of comic , computer , information security and so on . But the most important to me is that I joined the Association of Science & Technology , which is a very big association , and I met my first girl friend there . In BUPT , every one can not live without computer . There’re so many computers here that I have even been told that the computers here are more than people . In our first term , I rent a computer for study before I bought my first notebook computer . That was a very interesting period because we had only one computer in our room . We often use it to study , to play games , to watch VCDs and so on . The happiness is simple , but our feeling is great . During that period I wrote my first ‘hello world’ program in Delphi , and then I managed developing my first project : a little system for simulating a elevator’s function . Another important thing is that I found myself deeply fell for our library , the greatest library for telecommunication in China . When I was leisure ,...