Chinese Steve Jobs just a dream, say academics
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March 5, 2012, Monday
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CAN China produce its equivalent of Apple genius Steve Jobs? Two educational experts say such a dream is doubtful.
"If we don't make a change in our educational mode that hardly inspires creativity, it will be impossible to breed our own innovative talents such as Jobs," said Yang Chunshi, a professor at Xiamen University in southeast China's Fujian Province.
And Qian Feng, vice president of Shanghai-based East China University of Science and Technology, said some universities were too eager to enlarge their campuses, remodel teaching facilities and construct more high-rise buildings.
"But they are too mean to invest enough on their own faculties," Qian said.
"How can a mechanism for inspiring talents be established if they only care about such vanity projects?"
Although Yang and Qian don't see eye to eye on the advantages and disadvantages in China's educational mode - characterized by the cramming method of teaching from primary to high schools - both think China needs to upgrade its ideology in cultivating talents.
On one hand, China's thousands of universities have witnessed fast expansion over the past decade since the central government called for the popularization of higher education, Yang said. On the other hand, the sprawling universities are still failing to nurture talents specialized in a particular subject or field.
Both said bureaucracy was too pervasive among China's universities and colleges.
"China's talents cannot be cultivated if we don't put people, students as well as teachers, first," Yang said.
"If we don't make a change in our educational mode that hardly inspires creativity, it will be impossible to breed our own innovative talents such as Jobs," said Yang Chunshi, a professor at Xiamen University in southeast China's Fujian Province.
And Qian Feng, vice president of Shanghai-based East China University of Science and Technology, said some universities were too eager to enlarge their campuses, remodel teaching facilities and construct more high-rise buildings.
"But they are too mean to invest enough on their own faculties," Qian said.
"How can a mechanism for inspiring talents be established if they only care about such vanity projects?"
Although Yang and Qian don't see eye to eye on the advantages and disadvantages in China's educational mode - characterized by the cramming method of teaching from primary to high schools - both think China needs to upgrade its ideology in cultivating talents.
On one hand, China's thousands of universities have witnessed fast expansion over the past decade since the central government called for the popularization of higher education, Yang said. On the other hand, the sprawling universities are still failing to nurture talents specialized in a particular subject or field.
Both said bureaucracy was too pervasive among China's universities and colleges.
"China's talents cannot be cultivated if we don't put people, students as well as teachers, first," Yang said.
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