The cover story of the latest issue of TIME is "5 Things the U.S. Can Learn from China." Before clicking on the link, guess what they are.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1938671,00.html
Today I asked Class 214 to guess what the five things are. Among the answers they gave are diligence and frugality. Then I told them what are on the list:
1. Be Ambitious
2. Education Matters
3. Look After the Elderly
4. Save More
5. Look over the Horizon.
What impressed me most are two stories. One, in Education Matters, is about a 7-year-old in Shanghai going to school even on Saturday for two special classes, one of math and the other English. The other story, in Look over the Horizon, is about a man in central China improving his family's living conditions by receiving education in Tsinghua University and, after graduation, working as a software engineer.
Education has always been deemed as a way to lift one out of poverty. It is.
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