All primary and secondary school students in China, in principle(原则上), are barred(禁止) from bringing mobile phones to school, the Ministry of Education(教育部) announced on January 18th, 2021. The notice aims to protect students’ eyesight, make sure they focus on their studies and prevent them from losing themselves in the internet and online games.

If students must have a mobile phone at school, a special request should be submitted(递交) to school authorities (当局). Once the request is approved(批准), students should hand in their mobile phones to school authorities when they arrive at the school. The phones will be kept together and mustn’t be allowed to take into classrooms.

Schools shouldn’t ask students to do homework via (经由) mobile phones, and they should set up public phones and teacher hotlines for communication between parents and students.

Schools should set out rules for the management of mobile phones and designate(指定) people to take care of mobile phones brought to schools.

Education is not an end, but a way to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life.

In some modern countries, it has been fashionable to think that by free education for all, one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough, and we find in such countries a larger number of people with university degree refuse to do what they think “low” work. In fact, working with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries. But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor. We can live without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we should get terrible diseases in our towns.

In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we must be educated in such a way. Firstly, each of us can do whatever work suited to his brains and ability. Secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and that it is very bad to be ashamed(耻辱) of one’s work. Only such a type of education can be considered valuable to society.

“What’s success here?” When Finnish children are asked this question, the answer goes like this, “When you get a job, find a wife and have some money, you’re successful”, or “Everyone is pretty and equal (平等的), and nobody is the most outstanding”.

This is a country where people are so confident about their education. They even say: “If you ask me which school is the best, it’s the one that’s closest to home.” But when you walk into the local school, you might think you’ve arrived at an amusement park (游乐园) by mistake.

In Japanese kindergartens (幼儿园), children must run very fast and climb up and down with bare feet every morning to wake up their bodies.

Japanese children are taught to keep the group order and obey rules since they’re in kindergartens. So they are asked to have the right posture (姿势) from an early age. Those little kids sitting together share the same posture.

But there are also worries that Japanese children might lose their personalities under such education. Japan has a new job in long-suppressed social relationships: Tear Therapist. This job mainly helps people cry.

And even in Finland, ▲ . Some feel that Finland has lost its competitiveness because of its high welfare (福利). A headmaster at a local school thinks that the children are living a much easier life now with watching TV and playing games, who have lost the hardworking spirit of Finns.

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