Who is afraid of a big evil dragon? Why in China the best (and worse) education system in the world

Stunning successes on the international certification of Pisa of Chinese schoolchildren, from year to year superior to students from all other countries in knowledge in mathematics, literature and natural sciences, made China one of the world education leaders. American teachers and experts believe that in order to maintain a leading position in education and the status of world superpower, the country should take as a sample the Chinese education system. Indeed, many reforms carried out in American schools are an imitation of the Chinese system. America, the trace in the trace goes after China, but is it worth moving in this direction? Zhao Yun, who has worked as a teacher in China for many years, offers a fascinating, somewhat paradoxical look from the inside at the Chinese school education system and reveals the secrets of how it became at the same time "and the best and worst" in the world. He explains how China manages to prepare students who occupy first places in the world in many disciplines, and why Chinese teachers, parents and political leaders hate their education system and seek to send their children to Western schools. This book saturated with fascinating stories and facts is a detailed and sobering from illusions a tour of Chinese education