shopping英语作文初一【实用20篇】

在我们班，同学们都叫我“小翻译”。其实，我以前的英语成绩是一塌糊涂。

记得那一次，我的英语测试只考了58分。卷子发下来后，老师要求拿回家让父母签阅。不用说，父母看了少不了一顿打哭。没办法，我只好去求外公了。

“外公，我知道您最疼薇薇了，求您帮我签个字，好吗？”

外公接过卷子一看，眉头皱了起来。“薇薇，外公可以帮你签这个字，不过外公有一个要求。”

“没问题，只要您能签字，十个要求我也答应您。”

“从今天开始，外公和你一起学英语，谁要是没学好，就由对方处罚。”

“好呀，一言为定。” 我满口答应了外公的要求。心想：一个老头子了，我就不信你还能记得住ABC！？

然而，我错了，真的错了。

那是一个夏天，正值高温季节。白天，火辣辣的太阳把大地烤得像个火炉。直到晚上，也没有一丝儿风，我们坐在阳台上边摇着蒲扇边谈话。唯独外公一个人聚精会神地坐在书桌前学习英语。豆大的汗珠从他的额头上滚落下来，但他顾不得这些，仍然埋头奋笔疾书。

突然，外公的眉毛紧锁起来，啊，原来他有一个单词背不出,急得汗一个劲地流下来。我走上前去用关切的口吻说：“外公，先歇歇吧！”“不，”外公说，“你先去吧，我写完再来！”就这样，外公翻呀查呀，渐渐地夜深了，我们都入睡了。

半夜里，我醒了，蒙胧中看见灯还亮着，书桌前有个背影，不停地写着什么，汗水已经湿透了背心。我定睛一看，啊，是外公，他怎么还没唾？我看了一眼挂钟，已经深夜12点多了。外公的旁边还放着只脸盆，里面盛着冷水，一条毛巾，啊，这是外公用冷毛巾来降温呢！

外公的学习精神深深感染了我。我暗自下决心，一定要发奋学好英语，绝不辜负外公对我的一片苦心。从这以后，我的课余时间就和ABC交上了“朋友”。在往返学校的路上，在课间休息的时间里，在完成家庭作业之后……我把所学的英语单词，一个又一个背记在心里。这一招，还是外公教我的，他说，学好英语的基础，首先就是熟记单词。一天又一天过去了，我对英语越来越感兴趣了，还时常用英语和外公进行简单的对话，英语成绩自然上了一个新台阶。

现在我不在害怕英语考试了，每次考试之后，老师都会在班上点名表扬我。看着同学们那羡慕的眼神，其实我心里比谁都清楚，我今天的成绩，全都是因为我有一个好外公！

[初一作文：我和外公学英语

Computers are changing our life. You can do a lot of things with a

computer. Such as, you can use a computer to write articles, watch video CDs,

play games and do office work. But the most important use of a computer is to

join the Internet. By joining a computer to Internet, we can get the latest

information in all fields. We don’t need to leave home to borrow books from a

library or to do shopping in a supermarket.

Computers help us live a more convenient life. With the development of

computers, the word is becoming a large family.

A friend who is a police in Guangzhou got married yesterday.He once helped me get out of a very sticky situation without asking for any demand. I am sorry that I couldnt give my congratuation to him in pern his big day. Two years ago, a stuffy summer evening I was robbed when walking on the street with my another female friend after we left a hair salon.

Two guys riding on a motorcycle behind us rushed onto the sidewalk and pulled my purse away. I fell down on the hard concrete ground and the mortorcycle was hitting by a electricity pole.They quickly shifted the direction and zipped away. We were so appalled and black-out that we forgot to dial 110.I called my friend, the police, for help with tears in my eyes. Ten minutes later, he showed up and send me to a hospital nearby. The young resident took little care of my spot where I got hurt. Misfortunes never come alone.Three days later, it became so inflaming and swollen because of the heat of summer that I couldnt walk. I vented my anger and anxiety everywhere I could and decided to change another better hospital.In order to avoid making further and worse problem then and future, I decided to let a specific doctor to diagose it. It was a bolt out of the blue to learn that I needed a surgery, whereas it was incredible to undertake a surgery without any local or gerenal anesthesia. I extremely suffered from it. It was him who held my hand tightly without any hesitation during the whole process and it was him who took me back and forth to hospital to do the daily checks. There were no sufficient words expressing my thanks for him.It took me a month back to the normal track until the Mid-Autumn day.My friend availed himself of the benefit from his job to offset the 70% of the total costs. However, what the quite unhappy thing was a hard-to-miss and hard-to-fade mark on my right leg.

[初一英语作文 An unforgettable friend

My Computer

When I was in grade four in primary school, my father taught me how to use computer. After that, I was very interested in playing computer. I watched movies, played computer games, searched the Internet and listened to the music on computer. Because my father must work in his computer, so he bought another for me. I was very happy that I had my own computer. It was put in the study. I am always very careful to use my computer, because I am worried I would break. I often chat with my net friends. Because of my computer, I make many friends who have many in common. Of course, I use my computer in study. There are resources on the Internet. I can learn more after class. It does great help to me.

今天一大早，我就风风火火的赶到少年宫。这是为什么呢？因为我今天要参加英语剧表演。

刚进会场，哈，我们已经迟了里面早已热闹非凡。第一个上场的表演的节目是狮子觅食。一个同学头戴狮子面具威风凛凛的出场了。只见他伸伸懒腰说道：“I  am   hungry，What’s  for  dinner 。”说完就出去觅食了。这时一只小兔子拿着一个红萝卜蹦蹦跳跳的走了过来，狮子一见就上前去威严地说：“把食物给我吃吧。”小兔子一看是狮子，连忙把手中的红萝卜送给了狮子，狮子吃了一口觉得不好吃，发了狮威恶狠狠的把红萝卜砸向小兔子还大声的骂着，小兔子吓得飞快的逃跑了。他们精彩的表演赢得了一片掌声。狮子表演者熟练的英语对话、惟妙惟肖的动作，仿佛把我们带进了一个动物园。

接下来的节目是皇帝的新装、狼来了和拔萝卜，各班的表演都很精彩，让我觉得心里不踏实起来，怕自己表演不好。

终于轮到我们上场了，我的心怦怦直跳怕我们班会输给其他的班级。当音乐一响起来，我们每个人都很快进了状态。我那颗怦怦直跳的心也平静了下来。大家各自表演者自己的角色，十分认真。突然电脑出问题了，把我们出场的顺序都打乱了，弄得我们几个团团转转都不知道怎么去表演了。这是老师在后面打着手势让我们跟着幻灯片来表演，我们手忙脚乱的的样子把评委都逗笑了。最后我们的成绩只有76.365分。

虽然这次我们没有取得好的成绩，但是我们却收获了快乐。

I have many favorite holiday,such as:the Dragon Boat Festival and the double ninth festival,but I most like the needlework. Because the needlework section is by niulang and zhinv,below I will speak to you of the origin of the needlework section.

Met a sick one day,the cowherds workhorse, cowherd saw it was ill, and was taken care of.

One day, met a group of vega cowherd,and fell in love with the one of the female, the vega also like cowboy, they lived a happy life. This thing is know the heavenly queen, and catch the vega on the day.

After women talked: “when I die, I made a pair of leather shoes, you can walking.” The old cow died, cowherd took the old cow leather to make shoes, find vega flew to heaven, but was head of the heavenly queen hair clasp into the Milky Way of blocking the way. Cowboy on the other side has kept many days,finally, was touched by the heavenly queen so heavenly queen in July 7th this one day,only to meet niulang and zhinv. Vega ingenuity,women are begging for blessing themselves can also ingenuity.

This is the origin of the needlework section.

The story created a classic tough guy image. Tells the story of Santiago Cuba old man in the boundless sea fish caught eight days, but in the eighth day of the story, he caught a big marlin in the open sea, the old man in fighting with the marlin hand slashed, but he never give up, finally around three days later, will it uniform.

However, Santiago is not good luck, because he after uniform marlin, a grey whale sharks can smell the flavor of the marlin, he swam down to Santiagos fishing boat, ready to eat the marlin, so injured Santiago was at grey whale sharks and picked up the spear, when the moment of the assassination of grey whale sharks, have bite a piece of fish meat, grey whale shark defeated, but as a result of marlin tail meat is bitten off, so much more blood flow, it will let more sharks smell marlin, to marlin. Later, again there are two sharks come, really narrow scalloped hammerhead, shovelnose, but were Santiago uniforms, can be on the way back to Hong Kong, Santiago and ran into a large group of sharks, at this time of Santiago was exhausted, but Santiago also forcibly hold himself with the shark fight, even though he went the full, but in the end the big marlin was eaten, the old man back to the port of big marlin only a skeleton.

So I understand the life road twists and turns, long and full of challenge, but as long as our unremitting efforts, no matter the result is failure or success, is worth people respect.

故事塑造了一个经典的硬汉形象。讲述了古巴的桑提亚哥老人在茫茫的大海钓了8天的鱼都一无所获，然而在故事的第8天，他在远海中钓到了一条巨大的马林鱼，老人虽然在与马林鱼的搏斗中手被割破，但他始终没有放弃，最后在周旋了三天后，将它制服。

然而，桑提亚哥的运气并不好，因为他在制服马林鱼后，一条灰鲸鲨就闻到了马林鱼的味道，便游到了桑提亚哥的渔船旁，准备吃掉马林鱼，于是，受伤的桑提亚哥便又拿起了鱼叉朝灰鲸鲨刺去，当灰鲸鲨被刺的一瞬间，已经咬下了一块鱼尾上的肉，灰鲸鲨被打败了，但由于马林鱼的尾巴上的肉被咬掉了，所以血就流得更加多了，这便让更多鲨鱼闻到马林鱼的气味，过来吃马林鱼。之后，真的又有两条鲨鱼来了，分别是窄头双髻鲨、铲鲨，但都被桑提亚哥制服了，可在回港的路上，桑提亚哥又碰见了一大群鲨鱼，这时的桑提亚哥已是筋疲力竭，但桑提亚哥还强行地撑着自己与鲨鱼搏斗，虽然他使出了全力，但最后大马林鱼还是被吃掉了，老人回港时大马林鱼只剩下一副骨架了。

由此我明白了人生的道路曲折、漫长、充满了挑战，但是只要我们坚持不懈努力过，不管结果是失败还是成功，都是值得人们尊敬的。

My New Life

This summer, I move to a new city with my parents, and I transfer to a new school. I used to live in the countryside, so my new life is so different from before. The school is a little far from my home, so I go to school by bus. After school, I have many activities in school. Classmates are friendly to me. I learn English now. It’s so interesting that I like it very much. Besides, life in city is different. There are many interesting places to go. At weekends, my parents take me outside. We go to the park, the zoo or go shopping. But we are not so familiar with our neighbors. I think we should build good relationship with them.

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这个夏天，我和爸爸妈妈搬到了一个新的城市生活，我也转到了新的学校上学。以前，我住在乡下，所以我现在的生活和以前有很大不同。学校离我的家稍远，所以我要坐公交车去上学。课后，我在学校有很多活动。同学们对我也很有好。现在我开始学英语了，这门课程很有趣，我很喜欢。另外，在城市里的生活也很不一样，有很多好玩的地方可以去。周末，我的爸爸妈妈常常带我出去。我们去公园、动物园，或者去购物。但是我们和邻居们不是很熟悉，我觉得我们应该建立良好的关系。

Chinese new year is a chinese traditional festival. We also call it the spring festival. It is on lunar january 1st.

On new years eve, all the people sit around the desk and have a big family dinner. There are some vegetables, some fish, some meat, some fruits and some drink like juice, coke, pepsi and some nice wine. Overall, this is a good and delicious dinner. After dinner, we always watch tv new year progammes. We have a wonderful evening on new years eve.

On the first day of the spring festival, most of people get up early and say “happy new year” to each other. for breakfast, people often eat dumplings and baozi. After breakfast, people often make many delicious foods, and children often play cards, computer games and fireworks. On the second and third day, we visit friends and relatives.

Everyone is busy on chinese new year, and everyone is happy, too.

春节是中国的传统节日。我们也称它为春节。它是在农历1月1日。

在新年前夕,所有人围坐在桌子上,有一个大的家庭晚餐。有一些蔬菜,一些鱼,一些肉,一些水果和一些喝果汁、可口可乐、百事可乐和一些不错的葡萄酒。总的来说,这是一个很好的和美味的晚餐。晚饭后,我们总是看电视节目。我们有一个美好的晚上在新年前夕。

在春节的第一天,大部分的人早起,说“新年快乐”。早餐,人们经常吃饺子和包子。早餐后,人们常常做出许多美味的食物,和孩子经常打牌,电脑游戏和烟火。第二和第三天,我们拜访亲戚、朋友。

在中国新年每个人都很忙,每个人都是快乐的,也是。

A boy went to a shop and bought a pencil and other things. When he was going to pay the bill, he took out his wallet and found he had not enough money to pay. He felt awkward. At that moment, an old man who was in charge of the shop smiled and said to the boy that he could give the rest of the money next time. The boy was so shocked, as the old man trusted him so much. When the boy went home, he remembered it all the time. So the next morning, when he passed the shop, he gave the money without hesitation. Integrity is priceless and decides who we are.

一个男孩去了一家商店买了一支铅笔和其他东西。当他要付钱的时候，发现钱包里的钱不够支付。他觉得很尴尬。在这个时候，这位管理商店的老人笑了笑，对那个男孩说他可以下次再给剩下的钱。男孩很震惊，老人竟然那么信任他。这个男孩回家后，他一直记得这件事。所以第二天早上，在他经过商店时毫不犹豫的给了老板钱。诚信是无价的，也决定着我们是怎么样的人。

No sooner had the summer vacation begun than I returned to my native town.

Of course I must make good use of it; otherwise I would incur the displeasure of

my parents.

In the morning I reviewed my lessons and read newspapers or magazines. In

the afternoon I played ball games with my friends or went fishing in the river.

At night (In the night) I watched television with my family (the members of my

family). hardly had the clock on the wall struck ten when I went to bed.

Last Monday when I stepped into my classroom, my monitor told us that our class teacher, Mr Sun, had passed away in a traffic accident. It seemed so unbelievable because he used to give us lessons on Monday morning. I couldnt accept the fact until the headmaster came to tell us the truth.

Mr Sun was a middle-aged teacher. He was full of sense of humour. We all liked him very much because of his excellent teaching. His lessons were usually very lively and interesting.We all liked to attend his class. He was an experienced teacher.

Mr Sun will always live in our hearts!

The summer vacation this year, our family person went a lot of a lot of

amused interesting place plays, we went 101 buildings, lunar eyebrow explores

Eden, gao Tie explores a house... etc amused interesting place plays, what I

feel happy days always passes is very fast, I spend the summer vacation this

year very happily, so I just can feel happy to light always passes very quickly.

I am written down so that our family has the summer vacation this year the 101

buildings that go to Taipei city, when elevator still does not have attic, can

see Taipei city, I feel I am like is big giant, the house resembles is toy

house, the car resembles is toy house, the person resembles is small ant euqally

small, I feel absorbing.

Besides, our family still has go lunar eyebrow explores Eden, over there

very big! We play skyscraping annulus first, skyscraping annulus can reach very

tall place, we play corsair later, corsair left and right sides shakes special

stimulation, we still have go playing very resemble rotating the You Le

establishment of coffee cup, establishment of this You Le is very amused, if did

not help good armrest up to be able to slip all the time,will slip, this I feel

very interesting, we still have go playing imperial crown swing, establishment

of this one You Le wont be very exciting, when rotating, have slightly wind is

blown, this feeling seems to blowing fanner, nevertheless, the fanner of its

nature, besides this a few swim interestingly again amusedly outside happy

establishment, still have a lot of amused You Le establishment! The summer

vacation this year, our family besides go 101 buildings and Eden of lunar

eyebrow exploration play, still have go Gao Tie explores a canal to look around,

gao Tie has the thing of a lot of a lot of Guan Wugao iron inside exploration

house, have: Film appreciation, the game that fish, drive Gao Ties game, for

very the appearance of Gao Tie is 3 pediform principle... wait a few amused

interesting establishment, I acquired a lot of knowledge inside house of tall

iron exploration.

I feel although this one summer vacation passes exceedingly quickly,

nevertheless, I went to the place of a lot of playing in this one summer

vacation, also increased the knowledge of a lot of in a lot of place, I saw

Taipei city in the 101 buildings of Taipei city, also explored a house to

understand Gao Tie in Gao Tie, had termed begins now, my hope is fine

nevertheless summer vacation comes quickly, can look around to each district and

amuse oneself.

The bell rang and the class was over. The classroom became noisy. Some students went out of the classroom. I was just chatting with some of my classmates when Li Hong came to me. She smiled and said to me, "Whats four minus four? Do you know?" "Its zero. That is easy." answered I.

But Li Hong shook her head and said "Its wrong. Its eight." "Why? Thats impossible!" "You will understand if you cut down four corners of a desk." said Li Hong. "Is that a joke?" "Oh, yes." We all laughed. During the class break, we had a good rest. We often have a pleasant break.

I enjoy summer vacation very much.Becausesummer vacation is the longest vacation of the year. We have more than fifty days to rest. Though it is very hot, we can either go to swim or stay in the air-conditioned room.

In the evening, I like to go shopping with my friends.We can eat many things in summer, such as ice creams, watermelons, grapes, and so on.In summer, I always go on a trip with my parents. Its a good chance for us to visit some nice interesting places.

Lets take a look at the weather in Shanxi Province for the next 24

hours.Taiyuan would be cloudy at the time with the temperature from eighteen to

twenty-eight.A strong wind would reach Datong, which could cause much rain,The

temperature would be sixteen to twenty-six.Yangquan would be sunny with the

highest temperature of thirty degree. Linfen would be windy and its temperature

would be twenty-three to thirty-two.We would have a sunny and hot day in

Yuncheng.Its temperature would stay between twenty-eight to thirty-four.

Hi,everyone,Im excited to introduce myself to you.My name is __,and you can call me__.I was born in a tradition family,my father is a __,and my mother is a __.I am intrested in learning __,and in my spare time id like to play__.Now,we have went step to junior high school,Id like to be friend with you,angI think we will learn more during this period together.

The Importance of Electricity

When you go to work in the morning and find that traffic lights dont work, the traffic jam will certainly happen. A patient needs to be operated on at once. What will happen if the operation cannot be made because of the electricity. Without electricity, we can neither watch TV, listen to the tape, nor chat on line. Electricity is closely related to our daily life.

How terrible it would be if there were no electricity!

关于电力的重要性的初中英语作文

当你早上去上班，发现交通灯不工作，交通堵塞，肯定会发生的。一个病人需要立刻动手术。如果操作不能因为电力会发生什么。没有电，我们不能看电视，听磁带，也不能在网上聊天。电在我们的日常生活密切相关的。

如果没有电将会多么可怕

I used to be fond of skating. But now things have changed because of a horrible experience.

One winter, the weather was so cold that water turned into ice. One day on my way home, when seeing a frozen lake, I thought that the ice must be thick enough to support me. Being so interested in skating, I couldnt help going down and sliding on the ice. Suddenly, I heard a sound of crack. Looking down, I saw the crack on the ice surface. I was frightened out of my life and didnt dare to move. But nobody could help me. I had to move toward the bank carefully.

As soon as I got onto the bank, the ice broke. How horrible it was! Even ifit has been a long time since then, I can still feel the fear. And I no longer like skating since then.

我曾经非常喜欢滑冰。但现在事情发生了变化,因为一次可怕的经历。

一年冬天,天气太冷,水变成冰。有一天在我回家的路上,看到一个冻湖的时候,我认为必须冰厚度足以支持我。因为喜欢滑冰,我忍不住跑下来,在冰上滑行。突然,我听到一个裂缝的声音。向下一看,我看到冰面上的裂缝。我吓坏了,不敢移动。但是没有人能帮助我。我不得不小心翼翼地向岸边挪动。

我一到银行,冰了。这一切是多么的可怕!即使过去了很久,我仍然可以感觉到恐惧。从那时起,我不再喜欢滑冰了。

We wish to show our gratitude and thanks with a small gift. Happy Teacher‘s Day！

我们送您一件小礼物，以表我们对您的感激之情。教师节愉快！

You are like a third parent. We all love you and respect you.您就像我们的家长，我们都敬爱您。

We all like having you as our teacher. You have our respect and gratefulness.我们喜欢您做我们的老师，我们尊敬您、感激您。

This is Teachers‘Day and a time to be grateful to all teachers. This profession deserves the special recognition and respect. There is no more appropriate time than this to honour you and others in your chosen field. You have my eternal gratefulness.

We are more thankful than we can express.对您的谢意，我们无法用语言来表达。

You have been a qualified teachers and even better friend. Thank you for all that you have done.您不仅是一位合格的教师，更是一位好朋友，谢谢您所做的一切。

Education is not the filling of a pail， but the lighting of a fire.教育不是灌满一桶水，而是点燃一团生命的火焰。

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.能使艰难之事变得容易的人是教育者。

Send you our everlasting feeling of gratefulness and thankfulness on this special day.在这特别的日子谨向您致以我们永恒的感激之情。

A teacher affects eternity； he can never tell where his influence stops.一个教师对人的影响是永恒的。

It is the most appropriate time to show you our thanks.现在是向您表达感激之情最为恰当的时刻。

This small gift is only a tiny token of our gratefulness. We all want to thank you.这件小小的礼物略表我们的感激之情。我们大家都很感谢您。

I am truly grateful to you for what you have done.我深深地感激您所做的一切。

Dear teacher， thank you for illuminating my voyage of life with your own light of life. My grateful sentiments come from the bottom of my heart.老师，感谢您用自己的生命之光，照亮了我人生的旅途，对您我满怀感谢之情。

The whole secret of the teacher‘s force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.教师力量的全部秘密，就在于深信人是可以改变的。

No one deserves a bigger thank you than you. One day is hardly enough to show our gratitude.没有人比您更值得如此深厚的谢意。仅这一天远不足以表达我们对您的感激之情.

Thank you for making learning not a dull thing but a great joy.感谢您使我们把枯燥的学习变成了巨大的乐趣。

We all pitched to buy this gift. We are all grateful to you. Without your unselfish dedication could we achieve no success today.这是我们买给您的礼物，谢谢您，老师。没有您无私的奉献，就不会有我们今天 的成功。

Our beloved teacher， you are the spring shower that moistens our hearts. The love and care you have given us will encourage us to go through a long and arduous journey.亲爱的老师，您就像那春天的细雨，滋润着我们的心田。您给予我们的爱和关怀 将鼓舞着我们走过艰难困苦。

You are not only a good teacher but our close friend. Thank you for helping us make something of our lives.您不仅是一位好老师，也是我们亲密的朋友，谢谢您帮助我们奋发有为。

My heart felt thanks to you， dear teacher. On the voyage of life， you have kindled the light of hope for me. What you have done enriches my mind and broadens my view. On this day I honour you sincerely.亲爱的老师，向您表达我最衷心的感谢。在人生旅途上，您为我点燃了希望之光 ，您所做的一切润泽了我

I wish to express my thanks to you for instructing my child.谢谢您对我孩子的教诲。

My sincere thanks to you for being my child‘s teacher.衷心感谢您，我孩子的恩师。

My child speaks highly of you. Thank you very much.我的孩子很崇敬您。谢谢。

As parents we recognize the value of you in our child‘s development. Thank you for what you have done.作为父母，我们深知您在我们孩子成长道路中的重要。谢谢您所做的一切。

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.一个好教师具有化腐朽为神奇的力量。

Teacher， who educate children， deserve more honor than parents， who merely gave them birth； for the latter provided more life， while the former ensure a good life.教育儿童的教师应当享有比父母更多的荣誉，父母只给孩子生命，而教师则创造 了一个完善的生命。

Throughout the millennia, students of all ages in China have had to endure the miseries of learning by rote. Teachers have stifled creativity in the pursuit of the accumulation of facts, and parents have forced children to spend mind-numbing hours cramming for exams. But for the past year, the government has been experimenting with what could amount to revolutionary changes in Chinas classrooms. The aim is to make education more pleasant, more useful and, above all, to challenge students to think for themselves.

What has prompted the reforms is a belated recognition that Chinas education system is failing to produce enough innovative thinkers. In addition, students are deeply unhappy. A survey conducted by the Education Ministry five years ago found more than 80% of students disliked school. Dropout rates have been rising in rural areas—partly for economic reasons but also because of the stultifying atmosphere of their classrooms. Exam pressures frequently lead to suicides. According to a survey last year among senior secondary-school students and university freshmen in one area, more than 50% had considered killing themselves.

Several other countries in East Asia, including Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, are grappling with similar problems. But the implications of Chinas reform efforts are particularly profound. Chinas traditional education methods are ideally suited to a political culture that requires citizens to submit blindly to authority. By encouraging students to question their teachers and regard them as equals (even official literature now talks of fostering a “democratic” atmosphere in classrooms), China could be ushering in a new kind of relationship between the rulers and the ruled.

整个几千年,在中国所有年龄段的学生不得不忍受苦难的死记硬背。老师扼杀创造力的追求事实的积累,和家长迫使孩子花的小时死记硬背的考试。但在过去的一年里,政府一直在尝试什么革命性的变化在中国的教室。目的是使教育更愉快、更有用,最重要的是,挑战学生独立思考。

什么促使改革是一个迟来的承认,中国的教育系统是无法产生足够的创新的思想家。此外,学生感到非常不满。五年前教育部进行的一项调查发现,超过80%的学生不喜欢学校。农村辍学率一直在上升的经济原因,还因为愚蠢的教室的气氛。经常考试压力导致自杀。去年的一项调查显示,在高级中学学生和大学新生在一个地区,超过50%的人认为是自杀。

其他几个国家在东亚,包括日本、韩国和台湾,也面临着类似的问题。但中国的改革努力的影响尤为深刻。中国传统的教育方法是适合一个政治文化,需要公民提交盲目权威。通过鼓励学生质疑老师和把他们视为等于(甚至现在官方文学对话培养“民主”的气氛中在教室),中国可能成为引领一种新的统治者和被统治者之间的关系。