Critical Evaluation （2）
Fan, Yi Jun (Nance Fan) ，2003
Chinese background
(Advanced my learning about management in education)
Language, computer and business training schools are now scattering at many cities in China. It sounds that China is experiencing a kind of boom in education. And this boom has already been lasted for more than 3 years.
Nearly all parents in China think that the young generation in their family needs to learn at least one foreign language for future practical use. Students work hard at high schools for the later degrees with popular majors so that they could be competitive in job market.
Serious inclining to “popular” majors such as “language”, “computer” and “finance” made the environment of education unhealthy. This reveals, in fact, immature attitude to education. Let’s think about what Education is in the original sense? How to equip our management group to meet the change?
Individually, I’ve found a fact that most western people receive happy education. They pick up subjects which they like. But most Chinese students are real degree seekers. Chinese students, usually before my generation, didn’t REALLY choose any majors to learn for themselves because their parents had decided what they should learn in the coming university years. It was a SAD thing. Many years past, I was aware of this, just like I woke up from an awful dream. But the situation does exist even nowadays.
However, the worst situation is that students don’t know what they desire to learn. That’s a real problem. Unfortunately, I want to say, most of Chinese students are facing this problem. Take myself as an example; many years ago, when my primary Chinese teacher asked me what I preferred to do in the future, I answered that I would like to be a doctor just like my father. But I didn’t realize that I knew less about what a doctor’s daily work was. Too much time, we are a book learner. And sometimes it’s hard for us to keep or develop what we are interested in when we are in teenagers. It’s related to several aspects such as Chinese universities’ unequal admission; family income; the whole domestic economy…I will indicate more on this in my later hand out.
I am happy to see that the whole thing has been improved better and better during recent years. And I’m still sure that our people should be benefited by effective educational management MORE DEEPLY. We need well-qualified management teams in schools to guide our students and their parents. Definitely, it will be a long process to reach an advanced education model.
The above reflection is from my first hand experience in training profession and personal growth in China, which made me concern about management in education very much. And I’m getting progress on this.
论述：范 宜 君（ 格拉斯哥 2003，译于2019 ）
中 国 背 景
— 提升我对教育管理的学习 —
语言、计算机和商业培训学校现在分散在中国的许多城市。听起来中国正在经历一场教育热潮。这种繁荣已经持续了3年多。
在中国，几乎所有的父母都认为：为了将来的实际应用，家里的年轻一代至少需要学习一门外语。学生们在高中努力学习，攻读热门专业的后续学位，以便在就业市场上具有竞争力。
向“语言”、“计算机”、“金融”等“热门”专业严重倾斜，教育环境不健康。事实上，这反映了他们对待教育的不成熟态度。让我们来思考一下什么是最初意义上的教育? 如何使我们的管理团队适应变化?
就个人而言，我发现一个事实：大多数西方人接受的是快乐的教育。他们选择他们喜欢的科目。但大多数中国学生是真正的学位追求者。中国学生，通常在我这一代之前，并没有真正为自己选择任何专业来学习，因为他们的父母已经决定了他们在未来的大学里应该学习什么。这是一件令人伤心的事。许多年过去了，我意识到这一点，就像我从一个可怕的梦中醒来。但即使在今天，这种情况仍然存在。
然而，最糟糕的情况是学生不知道他们想学什么。这是一个真正的问题。不幸的是，我想说：大多数中国学生都面临着这个问题。以我自己为例：许多年前，当我的小学语文老师问我将来更喜欢做什么时，我回答说：我想成为一名医生，就像我的父亲一样。但是我没有意识到我对医生的日常工作知之甚少。太多的时间，我们是一个书本学习者。当我们在青少年时期，有时我们很难保持或发展我们感兴趣的东西。这与多方面因素有关，如：我国高校招生不平等; 家庭收入; 国内经济整体状况......，我将在后面的讲义中详细说明。
我很高兴地看到：在最近几年，整体情况已经改善得越来越好。我仍然相信：我们的人民应该受益于更深入有效的教育管理。我们需要高素质的学校管理团队来指导我们的学生和他们的父母。当然，要达到先进的教育模式将是一个漫长的过程。
以上思考来自于我在中国培训行业和个人成长的第一手经验，这让我非常关注教育管理。我在这方面正在取得进展。
