遇英国学生,中国老师很抓狂
Rude, bone idle... and cosseted by the welfare state! Chinese teachers' damning verdict on British children after spending a month in UK classrooms
A group of Chinese teachers has blamed the generosity of Britain's benefits system for lack of ambition, ill-discipline and idleness among school pupils. They believe the option of living on welfare handouts has produced 'feather-bedded' teenagers prone to rudeness and disrupting the classroom rather than concentrating on working and getting ahead.
一组中国老师指责英国慷慨的福利制度让学生没有进取心、缺少纪律性而且很懒散.他们认为,选择依赖福利救济生活,这使得娇生惯养的青少年很容易变得粗鲁,扰乱课堂秩序,而不能专心做功课,积极进取.
This verdict on the failings of British pupils and the influence of the welfare state was delivered by five Chinese teachers who spent four weeks in a Hampshire comprehensive school to see whether the strict methods used in China would work here.
针对英国学生的弱点,以及英国福利制度的影响,五名中国老师作出了上述判断.他们在汉普郡一所综合中学待了4周,试验中国所采用"严加管教"是否也会在这里奏效.
Teachers who stand in front of a class giving instruction for up to 12 hours a day have been credited with putting Chinese schools at the top of international ratings in maths, sciences and literacy, in which the record of UK schools is mediocre.
每天,老师们站在教室前讲课多达12小时,因此,中国学校在数学、科学和文化素质方面处于国际领先水平,而英国学校在这些方面的记录却很普通.
One of the teachers, Wei Zhao, believed British pupils lacked motivation. She said: 'Even if they don't work, they can get money, they don't worry about it. But in China they can't get these things so they know, "I need to study hard, I need to work hard to get money to support my family". If the British Government really cut benefits down to force people to go to work they might see things in a different way.'
其中一位老师名叫魏昭（音译）,她认为英国学生缺乏上进心.她说："即使他们不工作,他们也可以拿到钱,他们并不担心.但在中国的情况截然不同,所以中国学生知道,'我要努力学习,我要努力工作,赚钱养家'.如果英国政府能削减福利,就能迫使他们去工作,那么他们可能会以不同的角度来看待问题."
Others among the Chinese teachers who took classes at Bohunt School in Liphook, Hampshire, found their group of 50 children, aged 13 and 14, were disruptive and unable to concentrate. Li Aiyun, from Nanjing Foreign Language School, said: 'When I handed out the homework sheets, I expected everybody to be concentrated on the homework. But when I walked in the classroom some students were chatting, some students were eating, somebody was even putting make-up on her face. I had to control myself, or I would be crazy. About half of them tried their best to follow me. And the other half? Who knows what they were doing?'
