Sometimes the timing just works perfectly. Having recently had the privilege of listening to Dr. Zhou talk about  Chnese and American eduction (see previous blog post), Rachel and I had the opprtunity to visit some schools in Xi’An and YuLin, China as part of a student recruitment drive.

I have to thank the principals of the schools we visited; we were  treated like royalty at all times.

The schools had quite few things in common

1. All had beautiful, brand new buildings.

2. All were very big – 5000 students and more,  in High School alone

3. All had between 60 and 90 students in each class!! (see the photos below)

4. All used repetitive learning techniques – quire literally, mass repetition of what the teacher said.

5. All students were incredibly hard working.

6. All had many students who wanted to come to the USA to study.

A typical class in YuLIn high school

One of the many new buildings

Rachel and I doing our bit for sino-american relations

Having fun with the students