Many people criticize the condition of Chinese tertiary education, which seems inflexible and non-innovative. They censure the rule by which classify students according to their score, the police which refuse the children who failed in the University Entrance Exam and the trend which graduated students must choose the advanced education. But there are also many students as me, a traditional Chinese PhD candidate without any abroad experiences, who benefit the advantages of our traditional tertiary education. We love our motherland and world peace, we admire our parents, we study hard and get our goals, we work seriously and consume our salary, we have many habits to enjoy ourselves and we keep optimistic and hopeful to our life, all of which due to our education, especially our tertiary education. Here, we will discuss the superiorities of Chinese tertiary education.
First of all, in Chinese, there is a wisdom said “picture, and then a gentleman”. The “picture” means to cultivate your own moral and cultivation. We have engraved every word in the Analects of Confucius in our mind since senior high school, and understood the essence of traditional Chinese culture which is the last culture keeping from ancient. To admire your parents is not only to respect your parents, but “care for the elderly, and people of old”; to reflect on ourselves is not only rethink something, but “on seeing a man of virtue, try to become his equal”; to make friends is not only see someone as friends, but “make a bosom friend afar brings distance near”. Confucius told us the great wisdom, which help us to distinct the right and error, the nobility and vulgarity, and the transience and eternity.
Secondly, we accurately have got millions of knowledge since our senior high school and learned the most useful and professional knowledge in our college. My college major is clinic medicine which need 5 years to get the bachelor degree, 3 years to the master and more than 3 years to be a MD. Every year during my university, my friends, my schoolmates and also my teachers must study harder to get more basic and clinic information than other majors’ students. Some people pick the faults of Chinese doctors and Chinese medicine police, which said the quality and service attitude were so bad. I want to say: “Chinese doctors are the best doctor group all over the world”! They have the professional education at least 7 years, they have the biggest hope to cure their patients and they also have the most work and survive burden than doctors from every country. So, please admire the doctors, which is also the admiring of acknowledgment and life.
What’s more, our tertiary education also gives us the capacity to deal with problems. Some educators criticize Chinese students study too hard to enjoy their life. What a self-contradiction! It’s true that Chinese students study harder and more seriously than other countries’ students, but why? China has the one of 6 of the world’s population, which means they have bigger pressure and fewer chances to have a good job and enjoy their life. As a result, they have to struggle and exhaust all of their vigor to do what can make them stand out. Many foreigner professors said that they prefer Chinese students because of their diligent and intelligence. So, we have the capacity to study and get a good score, we also have the ability to deal with anything not only based on our logic and wit, but also on our activity and passion.
The last but not least, we have good psychological condition. During the training and experiment of so many yeas, students who finished tertiary education in China must have the capacity to hold their life burden and depression. They undergone the fail of College Entrance Examination and had to repeat grades over and over. They gone through every kinds of interview and tasted the happiness of success and depression of fail. Then, they became stronger in their mind, more positive in their mental and more exciting to get what they want.
In conclusion, I think I’m too young to see every aspect of Chinese tertiary education, but I want to thank it. Thank my country who give me the peaceful condition to study and live, thank my parents who give me life and cultivation, thank my teachers who give me acknowledgement, thank my schoolmates who keep companion with me, thank my schools, thank my university, thank my major and thank all the superiority of Chinese tertiary education.