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Editorial: Can the English education system be reformed?
However, his 78,000-word graduation thesis "exceeds the general level of undergraduate graduation thesis", and the school decided to make an exception and publish his thesis in full. After publicity, he "granted this' special (eccentric) student' graduation and awarded a degree". Being able to write a graduation thesis that many professors in our school and other schools appreciate is considered as a "possible talent in the future", which shows that Shao Zhoucheng's professional level has fully met the requirements of undergraduate graduation. However, according to the current education system, no matter how well you learn professional knowledge, you can't talk about anything without English: you can't get a degree certificate if you fail CET-4, and you can't get a diploma if you fail the school English exam. If Chengdu University of Technology makes it mandatory, a physics talent with great potential will probably disappear. Especially for undergraduates who can't get diplomas and degree certificates, let alone engage in academic research, it is estimated that it is difficult to find a job. As a result, Shao Zhoucheng, who is likely to get a diploma and a bachelor's degree, refused some teachers' suggestions to let him go to graduate school and decided to find a job, which is surprising but not difficult to understand. After all, graduate school will definitely have to pass English again. Even if some colleges and universities are willing to recruit him for graduate study, he has passed CET-6 when he graduated, and English is an unavoidable threshold for evaluating professional titles in the future. Unless English is decoupled from academic qualifications and professional titles, he will never achieve anything in physics in his life. So it's better to work early to earn money. This conclusion is very sad. However, it is an indisputable fact that the English threshold has killed a large number of outstanding talents. Shao Zhoucheng got a special degree from the university, and he is still lucky. English is really helpful for international communication, but on many occasions, even in scientific research fields that need to read a lot of foreign documents, English is not indispensable. For example, Minying Yoshikawa, a Japanese scientist who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics, knows nothing about English. Will Shao Zhoucheng be the next Yichuan Minying? It is possible, provided that the Ministry of Education no longer lists English as a compulsory subject in all kinds of exams. Otherwise, getting a college diploma and a degree certificate may be the biggest "academic achievement" in Shao Zhoucheng's life. Fortunately, Yichuan Minying is not from China, otherwise her English is not good. He may not even get into high school, let alone become a university professor and a physicist. When abnormal English education dominates the whole education system in China, no one can tell exactly how many talents like Yi Chuan Min Ying who have no talent in language but have great development potential in other fields have been buried. Taking the English test for postgraduate entrance examination as an example, many colleges and universities have to lower the standards and requirements for professional test questions in order to ensure the number of places, which obviously hinders the selection of relevant professionals. As a foreign language, English is just a communication tool. How can it be the standard for selecting talents? Why should foreign languages be placed in a more important position than mother tongue? These problems have been criticized, reflected and discussed by all walks of life for many years, but it is always difficult to see changes. Therefore, it is inevitable that many academic talents like Shao Zhoucheng, rather than language talents, will encounter embarrassing events when they graduate from college every year. In Shao Zhoucheng's school, aren't there students who have excellent papers but failed Band 4, and it is difficult to get a degree certificate? Chengdu University of Technology's practice of awarding degrees to "special students" has been widely praised by public opinion. But we should also be soberly aware that Shao Zhoucheng is just an example. What if there are too many "Shao Zhoucheng"? I hope that the news that the graduates who failed in English have written excellent physics papers and been awarded special degrees can touch relevant parties and start to reform the already rigid English education system. Yang Guodong (Jiangsu lawyer) recommended Lu Shankun, president of Chongqing No.1 Middle School in Weibo, Tian Xiangping, president of Nankai Middle School, Huang, president of Railway Middle School, secretary of Bashu Middle School and Li, head of Dayu Education.