现在的应试教育需要改变吗？依你看来，我们应该怎么实行素质教育？

I think the exam system could use changing. I was teaching in China for one year and heard students complaining about three exams. The "national" exam, the "provincial" exam and the "school" exam. Well they told me the "provincial" exam was very difficult because in that exam THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO COPY. Also some questions in the English exams at school were confusing and even difficult sometimes for native speakers to know the correct answer. If it was difficult for us how difficult for high school students who can barely speak English?

Also teachers must "finish the book", that is a large part of how their performance is judged. On "finishing" the text book...NOT on making sure the students understand. I taught 2,500 different high school students and almost all of them could not read for me a story from their textbooks. It was too difficult for them. Why? Several reasons:

1. Chinese English teach