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Ministry of Education: 54% of the opinions are against the separation of arts and sciences, and the pros and cons are being weighed.
On the afternoon of March 3rd, Yuan Guiren, Vice Minister of Education, revealed at the opening ceremony of the second session of the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference that 54% of the opinions collected by the Ministry of Education just ended were against the separation of arts and sciences. Due to the great differences between the two sides, the Ministry of Education is still discussing this issue.
At present, the Ministry of Education is planning to compile the Outline of the National Medium and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan. At the end of February, the first round of soliciting opinions, which lasted nearly two months, just ended. In the late stage of the first round of soliciting opinions, the Ministry of Education threw out 20 educational issues of social concern, among which the necessity and feasibility of canceling the division of arts and sciences in senior high schools were the most concerned by the society. Among the opinions collected by the Ministry of Education, 54% are against the separation of arts and sciences.
Yuan Guiren said that at present, there are great differences of opinion between liberal arts and sciences. The Ministry of Education is weighing the pros and cons of agreeing to cancel the division and not agreeing to cancel the division. "For example, if we want to adhere to the division of disciplines, we must consider whether we can solve the reasons put forward by non-divisions; Similarly, if you don't divide the subject, you should also consider whether you can solve the concerns of the divided subject. There is no conclusion yet. "
He revealed that the first draft of the planning outline will be announced to the public around August this year, when there will be a position on this issue.
Ministry of Education: It is expected to make a decision on whether to divide the arts and sciences in August.
Zhang Xinsheng, member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Vice Minister of Education, said on March 3rd that it would be better to pay no attention to senior high schools in the future. Yuan Guiren, vice minister of education, said that although it is still inconclusive whether to cancel the liberal arts division in senior high schools in the end, judging from the results of soliciting opinions at present, most people do not agree with the liberal arts division
There is a big difference between collecting public opinion and canceling the division in the teaching reform plan.
On March 3rd, Yuan Guiren, Vice Minister of Education who attended the opening meeting of the second session of the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said that the decision-making analysis was being made and the pros and cons were weighed. The final result will be reflected in the Outline of the National Medium and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan, which is expected to be published in August.
The first round of consultation on the Planning Outline has ended. Yuan Guiren said that there are different opinions on whether to cancel the liberal arts division in high schools.
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Education, at present, 54% people agree that arts and sciences should not be divided into subjects, which is more than that of arts and sciences. Yuan Guiren said that we should study in detail the opinions we disagree with and find ways to solve them.
Parents are worried that canceling subjects will increase the burden on students.
Parents are worried that if the liberal arts are abolished in high schools, the academic burden of high school students will be heavier. Zhang Xinsheng said that during the transition period, improper operation may increase the burden on senior high school students.
Zhang Xinsheng thinks it is better to divide the arts and sciences in senior high school in the future. He explained that the knowledge cycle in modern society is short, and children should have a foundation for all-round development. "It is too early to divide subjects now, and the cycle will be shorter and shorter in the future, and there will be more and more changes. How can I adapt? "
In view of the difficulty of college students' employment, Zhang Xinsheng said that this is the difficulty they encountered in their progress. In contrast, he said that if you choose a country, the biggest headache is the employment of illiterate, primary or middle school students. "I think it is better to choose college students for employment, which shows that the country is making progress and the overall knowledge level and national quality are improving."
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Zhu Qingshi: Teaching reform can't just focus on small problems. What if the college entrance examination does not reform the division?
Zhu Qingshi, member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, pointed out that it is very important to compile the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-Term Education Reform and Development Plan, but we should not only change the marginal problems, but also find out the most critical drawbacks and get rid of them.
Zhu Qingshi, member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: The key to compiling this plan is to find out the real situation of our education, especially the shortcomings of improvement. We can't just change some small problems without finding out the most critical disadvantages. I think the key drawback of education in China is that we studied the education model of the former Soviet Union in 1950s, which was characterized by being very specific and early according to majors.
Zhu Qingshi believes that the premature division of majors is to meet the needs of personnel training in the planned economy, but it violates the law of personnel training, suppresses students' talent and interest, and hinders the cultivation of innovative ability.
Whether to cancel the division of arts and sciences in senior high schools is one of the 20 major topics in the outline of education reform. Zhu Qingshi made it clear that he did not approve of the separation of arts and sciences, but the reform of college entrance examination was the key. Without the reform of the college entrance examination, the problem of separating arts and sciences is just empty talk.
Zhu Qingshi, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: The college entrance examination will not be changed, and it will be impossible to divide subjects, because the college entrance examination is completely different from the examination of science and liberal arts. If you don't divide subjects, students will only study those subjects to be tested in the college entrance examination, so the key is to reform the college entrance examination, stress arts and sciences, and whether middle schools should divide arts and sciences. That's a side issue, it's not important, that is to say, it misses the point and wastes the discussion.
65438+1The first round of public consultation on the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-Term Education Reform and Development Plan was successfully concluded. By February 28th, the office of the working group had received more than 2125,000 comments and suggestions from people from all walks of life, including more than 4,000 emails and letters/kloc-0, and netizens posted 65,438+through the portal of the Ministry of Education. People from all walks of life have posted more than 265,438+million posts on social networking sites and university campuses. At present, the research and formulation of "Planning Outline" has entered a new stage, from investigation to drafting.
To discuss the division of arts and sciences, we need to clarify several relations between students first.
Luo Weiqi, Director of the Education Department of Guangdong Province: When discussing whether senior high schools need to be divided into arts and sciences, we must first deal with the relationship between the law of good people's growth and the law of education and economic and social development; The relationship between students' all-round development and the appropriate choice of the development direction of superior disciplines; And the relationship between the stage goal and the ultimate goal of each student's development stage—
Judging from the national high school syllabus, there is no division of arts and sciences. As long as a school completes the syllabus, there is no problem of separating arts and sciences. It's just that I learned that in order to prepare for the college entrance examination, senior three students have selective and focused review of arts and sciences, which I think is different from the so-called "arts and sciences" now. Of course, it does not rule out that individual schools have not completed the teaching plan and syllabus purely for the college entrance examination. That's another matter, but first of all, it must be clear that there is no division of arts and sciences in the national syllabus.
As for how to look at whether to cancel the division of arts and sciences in high schools, Luo Weiqi said that three relations should be handled well:
The first is to correctly handle the relationship between the growth law of good people and the laws of education and economic and social development. Whether it is the cultivation of people by education or the requirement of economic and social development for people to become talents, its goal is to embody people-oriented.
The second is to deal with the relationship between the all-round development of students and the appropriate choice of the development direction of superior disciplines. How to understand "all-round development", everyone can't cover everything, so in education, it is a problem of sex and personality. But also give full play to personal interests and advantages, so that students can get proper development.
The third is to deal with the relationship between the stage goal and the ultimate goal of each student's development stage. If a person wants to improve his quality in an all-round way and realize all-round development, he must pursue it all his life. Although many people have received higher education or even doctoral education, it does not mean that they have developed in an all-round way, but they are still far from it. He must continue to work hard and study all his life. This is to pursue the all-round development of his life and improve his comprehensive quality. How do we understand what each student's stage goal is? The ultimate goal of students' all-round development cannot be regarded as the stage goal. In this case, students will die very hard, which will cause many students to jump up and not pick peaches, because it is too high, which will cause many people to read books, but are not interested in reading, which will cause boredom.
Why does the public only look at whether to abolish the division of arts and sciences?
On February 6th, the Office of the Working Group of the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan of the Ministry of Education held a press conference, and proposed to continue to solicit opinions on 20 major issues in four aspects, such as "whether to cancel the division of arts and sciences in senior high schools", which was highly concerned by the society and related to the overall situation of education reform and development.
Interestingly, a large number of very enthusiastic and inconclusive "opinions" fed back by the media are highly focused on the issue of 1 whether to cancel the division of arts and sciences in senior high schools, while other 19 educational reform issues, which are also classified as "significant", are almost ignored and shelved.
The reason for this situation is that the media guidance is biased, and the inherent characteristics of public opinion are of course not without responsibility. However, the author believes that the people who seek opinions themselves have important congenital deficiencies in the content and topic setting of seeking opinions, that is, there are problems in the question of "how to seek opinions in educational reform"-for example, the above-mentioned 20 existing topics, although seemingly significant, are actually quite trivial, scattered and terminal compared with the fundamental reform objectives, directions, basic principles and basic relations that must be thoroughly sorted out and established in a comprehensive and complete educational reform.
Obviously, before these more fundamental and original questions are well clarified and answered, it is difficult to get exact and effective answers to the 20 questions listed at present, or even to start. In the end, it is inevitable to fall into the chaotic situation of "saying that the public is right and the woman is right". Take "whether to cancel the division of arts and sciences in high school" as an example. If the fundamental goals, directions and principles of education reform, such as completely breaking the examination-oriented education mechanism, clarifying the non-dependent relationship between educational institutions and educational administrators, and ensuring the independence of schools as the main body of education, are still vague and undecided, then whether to cancel the division of arts and sciences in senior high schools is actually meaningless and seemingly lively.
Many other questions in the 20 questions, such as "measures to reduce the schoolwork burden of primary and secondary school students", "measures to cultivate innovative talents", "how to reform the examination enrollment system" and "how to implement the autonomy of running universities", are actually the same-if the examination-oriented education is not completely eliminated, the relationship between politics and learning is not fundamentally straightened out, and the academic performance from top to bottom and from outside to inside, the school bureaucracy, education. How can the basic environment and conditional climate such as reducing students' burden, cultivating innovative talents, reforming examination enrollment and implementing school autonomy be implemented and fulfilled?
In the previous consultation on the medical reform plan, it has been established as the basic reform goal, direction and principle to solve the problem of "difficult and expensive medical treatment" and "obvious reduction of medical burden" Similarly, in the process of soliciting opinions on the recent pension insurance reform, the equality and fairness of pension rights and the freedom and continuity of pension relations have also become the reform goals and directions with universal social consciousness.
Now, education reform also needs to solicit opinions. Compared with those specific and complicated questions such as "whether to cancel the division of arts and sciences in senior high school", the first thing we have to do is obviously to come up with the core issues of education reform-what should be the goals, directions and principles. And through "soliciting opinions" to discuss clearly and find out the answer. On this basis, specific educational reform issues such as "whether to cancel the division of arts and sciences in senior high schools" have a fundamental value destination, a foothold and the backbone and basis for operation and implementation.
Regrettably, from the current situation, it seems that the organizational departments related to the reform are not ready for this. For example, when answering a reporter's question about whether the exploration content of the new planning outline can be made public, the person in charge of the relevant departments of the Ministry of Education said that "the time is not yet ripe to disclose the content of the planning outline itself to the society". But the question is, how can the core content of education reform be "mature" without sunshine?
Historical evolution: the department of arts and sciences imitates the former Soviet Union.
"The ideological basis of the division of arts and sciences is Adam Smith's theory of social division of labor, which holds that concentrating one of arts and sciences can improve the efficiency of the whole society. The direct reason for the separation of arts and sciences after the founding of the People's Republic of China is that the new China imitates the atmosphere of the times of the former Soviet Union's' big brother' in all directions-the college entrance examination system and the higher education system are no exception. "
It is understood that the former Soviet Union lost a large number of intellectuals in World War II, and post-war reconstruction urgently needed a large number of professionals. Therefore, the former Soviet Union adopted and strengthened the method of "separate education" to improve the speed of "releasing" professional talents.
Stones from other mountains: arts and sciences do not distinguish. See what foreign countries do.
In Russia, most ordinary middle schools begin to divide liberal arts subjects from the tenth grade (equivalent to the second grade of high school in China), but schools with strong professionalism, including foreign language schools, generally do not divide subjects.
There is no clear division of arts and sciences in American high schools. High schools in the United States are similar to universities in China. There are no fixed classrooms, and students go to different classrooms according to their own courses. The curriculum of the public school system is decided by state committees or local schools.
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The division between arts and sciences depends on the baton.
Is meat acidic or alkaline? What about the fruit? Is vinegar acidic? What is the main ingredient of soap? These common sense problems in life have stumped many liberal arts students. At the knowledge contest held by the College of Literature of a university, many students were at a loss about the science topics, and many "fools" appeared. In fact, as long as you look through middle school chemistry textbooks, many problems will be solved. The common sense that middle school students should master, but college students don't understand, seems strange but ordinary, who let their middle school divide subjects!
The reason is simple and the facts are clear. Obviously, the disadvantages of separating arts and sciences in high school outweigh the advantages. There are no liberal arts subjects in middle schools in most countries in the world, and some countries with so-called subjects are different from us. For different subjects, middle school students can have interest orientation and choice opportunities, but the system design of courses and examinations is not a real division of subjects, nor is it a disciplinary barrier for liberal arts. This is not like our teaching mode. There seems to be a gap between arts and sciences, which is so obvious in high school.
Since the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, why do many people oppose the abolition of the division of arts and sciences? Mainly for fear of increasing students' academic burden and breaking the stability and continuity of the current examination system. In fact, this is only the tip of the iceberg, and the situation has not been evaluated from the perspective of examination reform and curriculum reform.
In recent years, the college entrance examination has been changed almost all the time, and even changed in some places. Make a plan for one or two years. Who can stand this kind of tossing, students, parents and society? In some places, only small steps are taken, only patches are made, and small details are modified, but they dare not touch the fundamental problems. These practices are hard to satisfy the people.
Whether to cancel the liberal arts in high school depends on the baton of the college entrance examination. Yes, the college entrance examination is a selective examination, which is different from the grade examination and should not carry the function of the examination. As long as it is the content stipulated in the syllabus, regardless of the college entrance examination or not, it should be taught and studied in middle schools. The reality of basic education in China is to focus on the college entrance examination, take the college entrance examination as the goal and take the college entrance examination as the wind direction. The reform of college entrance examination can't ignore this reality and can't be divorced from this situation. It is neither easy nor meaningful to talk about the division of arts and sciences without the reform of college entrance examination. To cancel the division of arts and sciences, we must first move the baton of the college entrance examination and start with the system design of the college entrance examination.
It needs long-term consideration to cancel the division of arts and sciences in senior high school.
The Office of the Working Group on the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan held a press conference on the 6th, intending to solicit opinions from the public on 20 major issues affecting the overall situation of education reform and development, including whether to abolish the division of arts and sciences in senior high schools. Since some CPPCC members suggested to cancel the division of arts and sciences in senior high schools, whether to cancel the division of arts and sciences in senior high schools has become a hot topic of social controversy for more than a year. In this matter, many teachers and parents are "anxious in their eyes". However, if I have to give a blame, I think it is really difficult to draw a conclusion easily. But I think, at least at present, it is still too hasty to cancel the division of arts and sciences in senior high schools, and we need to think twice before you act, and be cautious.
From the perspective of students' all-round development, it is undoubtedly better to cultivate "all-rounder" without dividing subjects and accepting both arts and sciences. But the problem is that the three-year high school semester will not change, and not dividing subjects means that students' schoolwork will increase. People's energy is limited, the quantity is much, and the quality will inevitably decline. As a result of training, it is likely that he knows a little about everything, but he knows a little about everything and has no flesh and blood. He is a "layman who knows what to do".
However, as some people worry, sub-disciplines will indeed cultivate a large number of talents with partial subjects. But think about it carefully, since ancient times, the talents in the world are not "experts" but "generalists"? Looking at colleges and universities, which school does not divide departments and majors? From this point of view, the division of subjects is the general trend, the general trend; This is ideal, but not realistic.
During the New Year's Day this year, in order to select "unusual" students suitable for their own school characteristics, Peking University, Tsinghua and other colleges and universities were shocked, and the candidates generally felt biased, strange and difficult. Some people think that this is all caused by the division of arts and sciences in high school. But I feel that this is not only the fault of the division of arts and sciences in high school, but also shows that our division is not thorough, unprofessional, unreasonable and not in place at present.
The appropriate policy is not to blindly cancel the division of arts and sciences, but to make the division of disciplines more scientific and reasonable. "I have heard of Taoism one after another, and my skills are specialized." No matter what kind of lessons are given to children, we should make them learn useful, learn deeply and become professionals. Never cultivate "high-scoring and low-energy" talents who are mechanically inflexible, memorize bibliographies and adapt to changes immediately. 360 lines, each line is a champion. If you want to get ahead, you don't really need a master, you just need a master-I'm afraid this truth is not difficult for everyone to understand, right?
Be cautious about the division of arts and sciences in senior high schools
"Education reform should be rational and objective, and the mind should not be hot." Deputy Zhou Hongyu, deputy director of the Standing Committee of Hubei Provincial People's Congress and professor of Huazhong Normal University, recently put forward his own views on the division of arts and sciences.
As the president of Changjiang Education Research Institute, Zhou Hongyu passed the Outline of National Medium-and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan specially held with experts from Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Huazhong Normal University and Hubei Provincial Department of Education at the beginning of the year.
To the seminar, around the topics of education system reform, regional education development, balanced development of basic education, education quality assurance, college entrance examination system reform, etc., the "Proposal for National Medium and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan" was drawn up. Zhou Hongyu suggested that we should be cautious about the division of arts and sciences in senior high schools and explore a reasonable examination evaluation system. Whether the division of arts and sciences should be abolished can not be generalized, and it can not be rashly abolished when conditions are not met, otherwise more problems will arise. He believes that the division of arts and sciences is only a possible factor leading to the deviation and abnormal development of arts and sciences, not an inevitable factor, not the only factor. Therefore, "don't expect' one combination is good'. The state can carry out pilot exploration of the division of arts and sciences in some places, but it is not appropriate to cancel the division of arts and sciences immediately and engage in a one-size-fits-all game of chess. "
Zhou Hongyu believes that as long as the curriculum structure is reasonably adjusted, the teaching system is optimized, the college entrance examination evaluation system is reformed, and the arts and sciences are divided, good results can also be achieved.
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The division of arts and sciences is not the key to educational reform.
High schools in Japan, like our country, have no subjects in Grade One and three subjects in Grade Two, but the courses offered by arts and sciences are basically the same, but the class hours are somewhat different. To promote educational reform, we must first abandon the division of arts and sciences.
Yuan Guiren, vice minister of education, said that it is expected to be determined in August whether to cancel the final division. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Education, 54% people agree that arts and sciences should not be divided into subjects.
The division of arts and sciences is only a possible factor leading to the deviation and abnormal development of arts and sciences, not an inevitable factor, not the only factor. Education reform can't be done without reform and chaos. In fact, the abolition of the division of arts and sciences has no substantive significance for improving the comprehensive quality of senior high school students at present, but as long as the curriculum and teaching of senior high school are reasonably reformed and the division of arts and sciences is maintained, better educational results will be achieved.
Developed countries abroad are not indifferent to arts and sciences. Japan and other countries have not abolished the division of arts and sciences. Japanese high schools, like China, have no subjects in Grade One and three points in Arts and Sciences in Grade Two. However, the courses offered by arts and sciences are basically the same, but there are some differences in class hours. There are more class hours in arts, history, geography and art than in science. There are more math and physics classes in science than in liberal arts; Japan implements the credit system and elective courses system in senior high schools. Schools offer different types of elective courses for students of arts and sciences to enrich their knowledge structure and improve their comprehensive quality.
Cancelling the division of arts and sciences, if the pace of curriculum reform can't keep up, will really further increase students' academic burden. At present, a new round of senior high school curriculum reform in China has begun to spread. This curriculum reform is mainly designed according to the division of arts and sciences. If we cancel the division of arts and sciences immediately, the curriculum reform will not keep up, which will lead to chaos in high school teaching. Reform is a gradual process and cannot be accomplished overnight. Sometimes blind reform due to thoughtlessness will cause irreparable losses.
As long as the curriculum is reasonable, the teaching system is coordinated, and the examination methods are appropriate, the implementation of liberal arts and sciences will also receive good results. As long as the same courses are offered in arts and sciences after senior two and senior three, the comprehensive quality of students can also be improved with different teaching emphasis and different class hours.
In order to promote the reform of college entrance examination, we must further clarify the guiding ideology, key points and steps of the reform. The key to the next step is to strengthen and expand the autonomy of colleges and universities, which is in line with the correct direction of the international trend and the inevitable trend of China's college entrance examination reform.
Hastily canceling the division of arts and sciences will lead to greater confusion and more problems. The state can carry out pilot exploration in some places, but it is not appropriate to cancel the division of arts and sciences immediately and engage in a one-size-fits-all game of chess.
The disadvantages of the separation of arts and sciences might as well be dealt with by "elective courses"
The Ministry of Education announced that it would stick to it. For a time, all the major forums on the Internet were discussing a topic: "Should the liberal arts division in high school be cancelled?"
In the interactive community of Xinhuanet, 62.0% of 5337 netizens think that the division of arts and sciences in senior high schools should be abolished, which has too many disadvantages, while 33.0% netizens think that it should not be abolished, which has certain effects. On People's Daily Online, the strength of the "two factions" is almost equal. According to the online survey of 474 15 people, 50.5% netizens think that the division of arts and sciences in senior high school should not be abolished, which will increase the burden on students in vain, while 46.4% netizens think that it is beneficial to cancel the division of arts and sciences in senior high school, which can meet more professional needs.
"Cancel the faction" is very emboldened. "The students who come out of science and education are only' half people'!" (Netizen "a fire in winter") A netizen from Xinhuanet said: "The division of subjects has forced students to be divided into two incompatible knowledge systems. There is a lack of humanistic feelings in studying science and taboo logical thinking training and natural science literacy in studying liberal arts. It is difficult to cultivate real talents! "
"Let the person who said to cancel the division of arts and sciences be a senior three student!" The other side did not show weakness. A Tencent netizen said, "Do you want to turn every student into a superman? Do you know that studying six subjects has exhausted us, and we still have to study nine subjects? Moreover, many of my classmates are partial subjects, and I want to cancel the division of subjects for fear that I will not be admitted to the university. But now in universities, most of them are excellent in a certain professional field. "
The deeper the discussion on the division of arts and sciences in senior high schools, the more inevitably it touches on an old topic, that is, quality education. Even if the division of arts and sciences is abolished, if the score is still the highest, then the so-called "cultivating students' humanistic feelings and scientists' rigor" can only be wishful thinking.
On the campus network, Chen Qi, a senior majoring in ideological and political education, wrote: "Can quality education be achieved regardless of arts and sciences?" A few months ago, I was an intern teacher in high school, just in time for the monthly exam of Grade Two, and the pressure of students was distressing. You asked a senior high school student of 17 years old to learn nine courses: Chinese, mathematics, foreign languages, history, geography, politics, physics, culture and health. How many things do students have to put into their heads? "
In Tianya community, netizens "just love to pretend to be cool" and said: "Without quality education, there are great disadvantages. The education policies of more than 30 provinces across the country are no longer monolithic, and autonomy can be handed over to provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). "
Another netizen made an interesting suggestion, "The disadvantages of separating arts and sciences may be treated as' elective courses'. Middle schools in liberal arts can learn from the elective course model of universities. " These elective courses can't be used as the contents of the unified college entrance examination, but they can be used as important reference items for independent enrollment. Stimulating students' interest without increasing their burden may really achieve the best of both worlds.
The key to cancel the division of arts and sciences in senior high school is to promote the comprehensive reform of education.
On February 6th this year, the Office of the Working Group of the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan publicly solicited opinions from the society on 20 major issues that are highly concerned by the society and affect the overall situation of education reform and development. The necessity and feasibility of separating arts and sciences in senior high school is one of them.
Since then, the "high school liberal arts division" has quickly attracted the attention of all walks of life. Supporters said that canceling the division of subjects would lead to an increase in examination courses and a corresponding increase in students' burden. Opponents believe that the separation of arts and sciences is difficult to cultivate high-quality talents with comprehensive knowledge.
Hu Sishe, deputy to the National People's Congress and president of Xi 'an International Studies University, believes that this issue involves all aspects, such as the college entrance examination system, high school textbooks, and the connection between high school and university education, and requires many supporting policies. You can't simply say that it is good or bad, but you should conduct full research, especially listen to the opinions and suggestions of teachers and students in senior high schools.
The representative of the Hu Si Institution said that as a medium-and long-term plan, this reform should be more cautious. We should seriously investigate and study whether the cancellation of liberal arts in senior high schools can improve students' quality and whether it is feasible in the high school education stage, and then carry out gradual reform. We should not be too hasty, but be responsible for our students and our next generation. (Xinhuanet 2009-03-06)