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海上钢琴师

Here is a short essay I worte this week, it is not finished, but I think what I want to say all in it.
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The dangers caused by the overlearning culture in Chinese primary schools
   
These days many parents found that their children in primary schools had to sleep latter in night and have not much free time play by themselves. Parents remember back to the time they were in primary schools, they had a lot of time to play many intereting game and had less time to do the study. Children are overlearning today. That problem occure not in one child, but almost all Children in primary schools in China. That has became a overlearning culture. People all know something wrong in overlearning culture, but they have no way to get out of it. So we can see that an overlearing culture do harm to children, parents are affected too, and even teachers have to accepted it.

An overlearning culture do harm to children in Chinese primary school and change many thing in their study and life. After study in school, children still have too much homework to do. They must write down the new words, make sentences, recite the textbook, caculate the numbers, read the clock, and do some samething but in English.When all the homework had been done, children have less time to play game as they wish. It is often too later to go outside to play with other children. Evenif they can play some game they like, time for bed is coming soon.Even in weekend, other skills learning like drawing, dancing, have occupied even more free time. Drawing and dancing maybe fun if you do it as you will. But when somebody force you do it again and again by timetable, you will have no more interesting in them. So the games are ruined.

Furthermore, parents are affected by this phenomena and something parents do not desired happened .In order to make sure that children finish their homework, teachers push parents to help their children to finish their homework even later in night. Parents take the work of teacher at home, but they do not teach something interesting, they just follow the orders from teachers. Sometimes parent sit beside their children to watch children writing. After the homework is finished, parent will check it out like a teacher.Because parents behaviour more and more like a teacher, they paid much more attention ot scores obtained by children. That is reasonable, parents pay their time and energy on the learning of children, they ask for a good result. If they do not get what they wish, they will become angry, and children will be blamed.Therefor, parents pay little attention to happiness of childhood. But the real responsibility of parent is to care about the happiness of the children. Without real care of happiness, unhappy children and parents have bad relationship with each other.   

Finally, teachers have to accepte the culture or they become poor teachers.In china, there are many students in one class, teachers have not enough time to care about every child in the class. So usually teachers use overlearning as a tool for their work. In order to let their students get high score, they give students more homework to do. If there few students in one class, teachers maybe deal different situation with different child. But in China nowadays, teachers do not have many choice.Some teachers want to change the way of overlearning, but if teachers do not make students overlearning, they will face the blame if students get bad scores. Because score decide the possibility to enter in a good middle school, and so high school. Parents care about scores, they believe bad scores come from the way teachers changed. Overlearning maybe the bad way, but it is a safe way to go.In overlearning culture, who can let students get high score will be a good teacher. A real teacher should care about the fully grow up of his students, but the obvious result of his work is high score, even if teacher pay more attention to some other things like mental health, low score will prove he is a poor teacher. So teacher look for high score as a result, not full development of children as humanbeing.

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21# 海上钢琴师

it's worthy of consideration.

china's education system is absolutely supposed to change.

kids should play, which leads them to be creative.

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everybody's tired now.
nobody's gonna give comments to what i said. sigh.
so i'll have a rest tomorrow.
actually, not rest. i'll do my own project instead of forum stuff.
so i'll be disappeared. don't find me - i know nobody will find me. lol.

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i'm working so hard. maybe everybody in here knows.
but technically, they may not like it.
because i realize that i'm kinda giving others so much pressures.
therefore, i should take a break for everyone's good.

JingheSu

23# 拉布索思

Do not jump to conclusion.

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25# JingheSu



thx for your concern!

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sleep earlier tonight. get up earlier tomorrow.

no simwe tomorrow. remember!!!

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dear  pfsr,
i miss you so much.
please come back.
don't leave us alone.

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The following is the resignation letter from Steve Jobs to the Apple board:

CUPERTINO, Calif.–August 24, 2011–To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know.

Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.

I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.

Steve

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Steve Jobs’s resignation as chief executive officer of Apple is the end of an extraordinary era, not just for Apple, but for the global technology industry in general. Jobs is a historic business figure whose impact was deeply felt far beyond the company’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters, and who was widely emulated at other companies.

And now, for the first time since 1997, he won’t be the company’s chief executive.


To be very clear, Jobs, while seriously ill, is very much alive. Extremely well-informed sources at Apple say he intends to remain involved in developing major future products and strategy and intends to be an active chairman of the board, even while new CEO Tim Cook runs the company day to day.

So, this is not an obituary. But his health is reported to be up and down, and even an active chairman isn’t the same as a CEO.

CEOs resign every day, so why is this departure so meaningful?

Most people are lucky if they can change the world in one important way, but Jobs, in multiple stages of his business career, changed global technology, media and lifestyles in multiple ways on multiple occasions.

He did it because he was willing to take big risks on new ideas, and not be satisfied with small innovations fed by market research. He also insisted on high quality and had the guts to leave out features others found essential and to kill technologies, like the floppy drive and the removable battery, he decided were no longer needed. And he has been a brilliant marketer, personally passionate about his products.

In his first act at Apple, the company he co-founded in 1976, he helped envision and catalyze the personal computer revolution. The Apple II computer he developed with Steve Wozniak wasn’t the only mass-market PC released in 1977, but it was the one that had the most enduring impact.

In 1984, he again upended computing by leading the development of the Macintosh, the first commercially successful computer to use a mouse and graphical user interface. It cemented the template for how every computer works today, even though Apple was handily bested in the PC sales wars by archrival Microsoft.

After being forced out of Apple in 1985, it’s well known that Jobs ran an unsuccessful computer firm called NeXT. But he also did a couple of game-changing things during that exile. First, NeXT developed an operating system that later morphed into the excellent Macintosh operating system, called OS X, and also the operating system that drives Apple’s mobile devices, called iOS.

In addition, he purchased Pixar, a small computer animation firm which he was able, over years, to turn into one of the world’s most successful movie studios and later sell to Disney for billions. It changed animation forever.

In his most recent act, he returned in 1997 to take over as CEO of Apple as part of that company’s purchase of NeXT. What he found was a diminished company which was reputedly only months from bankruptcy and saddled with mediocre products.

Fourteen years later, the company is a highly profitable behemoth, the most financially valuable and influential technology company in the world, whose every product is eagerly anticipated, snapped up quickly by consumers, and aped by competitors, even though they are often priced higher than rival devices.

While CEO of the revived Apple, he introduced the dominant digital music player, the iPod, and created the most successful digital media service, iTunes. He introduced the first super-smartphone, the iPhone, and the only truly successful tablet computer, the iPad, which is in the process of replacing the laptop, at least in part. And he built the world’s largest app store.

One almost forgets that he built a phenomenally successful chain of retail stores, too.

Apple’s devices and software services have dramatically changed the mobile phone industry, the music industry, the film and TV industries, the publishing industry and others.

Meanwhile, even while declaring that we are in the “post-PC era,” Jobs resuscitated his early baby, the Mac. While it may never become the world’s biggest selling computer, it is lusted after worldwide, and its sales have outgrown those of the overall PC industry for five years running. Plus, with models like the sleek, solid-state MacBook Air, he’s actually merging the tablet and the PC.

Now, rumors are rife that Apple is working on re-inventing another common device: the TV. The secretive company won’t say a word about that, but nobody should be surprised if it happens, just based on Jobs’s track record.

And that’s why the day Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple isn’t like the day a typical CEO resigns.