<p>Those people that think Chinese education system is somehow superior than the American education system is fundamentally flawed by their own country’s racist attitudes towards Asian Americans. Viewing Asian Americans as this model minority, Americans believe, and believe with an arrogance, that the Chinese, the Asians, are genetically, culturally, and academically “inhuman,” deviated from the norms, strayed away from the accepted path way in academic achievement. The erroneous logical inference made by Americans is stupendously stupid, considering that Asian Americans earn per person lower salary than a White American doing the same job, and considering that Asians only consist of 5 percent of U.S population, to make a hasty conclusion such as “all asians are smart” and that “gaokao is the ****” are not only erroneous statements but a racist one as well. </p>
<p>Now, let’s look at Chinese education.
Chinese education sucks, both higher and secondary. Test scores do not represent the intelligence of a people who have been drilled into taking tests for the entirety of high school and middle school years. It further fails to show any real progress on the uplifting of Chinese higher education system. Despite spending billions of dollars on education reform and national labs, China today still lacks behind the west, particularly America, in terms its Research and Development. All the scientists working for the academia sinica are trained in the WEST, with WESTERN colleagues, and mentored by WESTERN professors. </p>
<p>Let me just give you an example: In china, learning English is compulsive from elementary school to college, but despite the training, sometimes intensive english education before and after school, all of the Chinese students, even those who came here for Ph.D, can’t and are not willing to compose papers in readable standardized English. Whereas a Chinese major with only 4 years of CHINESE education under his belt easily outperforms his counterpart in language acquisition. </p>
<p>Now, let me talk more about higher education system in China. It is a bureaucratic system controlled by the communist party to spread party agendas instead of true scientific research. In the last 60 yrs of the Republic’s history, there is no Nobel laureate, no major scientific breakthrough, and worse, all the scientists are trained in the west. Today, going to a Chinese college will probably mean that you will skip all your lectures and plagiarize everything from internet. Chinese academia is notorious for its blatant plagiarism, and its academic journals read like newspaper clips. </p>
<p>Gaokao is a joke too. First of all, it is not a NATIONAL examination. All people take the test alright, but different province has DIFFERENT tests and DIFFERENT evaluation system. you can get into Peking University easily if you live in Beijing, whereas if you live in Guizhou, you are f-ed. Why? Because CHINESE government wants to CONTROL the population from MOVING around, so they give really difficult tests to fringe provinces like Yunnan and Guizhou while privilege Beijing and Shanghai, whose test rooms are filled with communist members’ kids. </p>
<p>If you don’t believe me, go to china and see yourself. The education system is a more or less a farcical fanfare.</p>