Reading Week--No class

A major difference between western education and
the one in Taiwan is that there is less lecturing but
a lot reading to do. Students need to 'dig out' the
knowledge by themselves.

On the other hand, Taiwanese students depend fully
on teachers' teaching. The lecture they listen during 
the class is how they get to know certain knowledge. 
Things which are not taught in the class may even be
considered useless or valueless by students.
Of course, the value of something is determined by
how helpful it is for the coming tests, not conerning
with knowledge or skill.
The education is basically test-related.

英國的教育是....老師及教授教得不多，
但有一大堆的閱讀內容得做...感覺起來是學生主動去學習的。

而台灣則相反，學生背動學習，大部分都是仰賴老師；
甚至老師沒教的，也不會想去了解透徹。
常常也只是為了應付考試。

自己真心想學的、自己去思索過的，
才比較容易變成自己的。

所以，我倒挺欣賞英國的這種教育方式的優點。


另一個英國教育的優點是.....
上個週末開始，有一大堆的學生前往意大利、法國巴黎等地
旅遊一週....原因是：這個禮拜是笫6週閱讀週，沒課。

很好吧？

可惜啊....目前沒錢又加上有3個1500字的作業馬上要交的我，
只能羨慕在心頭，然後誓言在未來的日子裡再去完成！

Yet, I don't know if this is good but many students
set out for Paris or Italy this weekend for a-week-trip because
there is no class in the 6th week. Reading week is meant for
students to catch up with their excessive reading materials so
that they can relate more to their learning and continue the
work in the coming weeks. Some students apparently take
this for granted and get a bit carried-away.

One thing I am jealous of those rich students who can
depend on their well-off parents and resourceful family
support is their free mind of doing traveling anytime they want
without worrying about the financial problem. The traveling
part is also what I intend to do much in the near future.

But for now, I'll just keep my feet on the ground.