A Dream for a Better World

In the ancient times, people get up when the Sun rises and go to sleep when it is going to sunset. However, lifestyle is quite different in modern times. People are very busy nowadays and they do not have enough time to enjoy entertainments. They even cannot spare time to have dinners and get enough sleep, especially in developed regions. According to some report, people ought to get 6 to 8 hours for sleep in a day. Actually, many people cannot sleep 6 to 8 hours during the 24 hours. In addition, different people have different hours for sleep. Elderly people, children should get about 10 hours’ sleep and baby sleep longer. Young people’ sleeping hours should be up to 6 to 8 hours. Inadequate sleep which will cause decreased ability to think, immune dysfunction, endocrine imbalance etc. has been a problem in the modern world. Many people who work in the office always ignore sleeping hours and they think that if they sleep less, they can work more hours. In fact, they do not pay attention to low efficiency of work and the harm to health caused by inadequate sleep. If somebody sleeps less today and he sleeps more tomorrow, he will be ok. If he has lost 100 hours’ sleeping, it is very difficult for him to be healthy.
According to some statistics, people all over the world have different sleeping hours. Compared with people in other developed countries, the French people sleep longer and they spend about 9 hours sleeping on average. People in Korea and Japan spend the least time sleeping in the world. American people are listed in the second place and they sleep more than 8.5 hours every day. Spanish people are considered as the third place. As for Chinese people, they also spend less and less time sleeping. Many people adjust sleeping hours according to work schedule and the more education they get, the fewer hours sleeping they obtain. It is estimated that about 30% people go to bed after the midnight. A part of people suffer from insomnia because of great pressure from work, so we can imagine that they can sleep less. Of course, that is a kind of disease.
Scientists have made some survey from people with different sleeping hours. As for young people, if they are lack of enough sleeping hours in a week, they will suffer from early diabetes. As for middle-age people, they will suffer from endocrine imbalance if lack of enough sleep. Inadequate sleep also restrains kids’ healthy growth. Therefore, experts strongly suggest people that they should sleep with enough hours because they could get great benefits for doing so. Firstly, enough sleeping will make people’s skin and hair become more beautiful. We can often find that people lack of sleep seems to be no good. Secondly, adequate sleep can bring normal endocrine. On the contrary, endocrine imbalance will come to people. Fertility may be even badly affected. Thirdly, adequate sleep can help people become stronger. People even do not need to go to the doctor when they catch cold if they always have enough hours for sleeping.

In recent years, the idea of “knowledge is useless” has started to gain ground in some rural areas of China. As there are more and more university students in the society, competition for job hunting becomes fiercer and fiercer. It goes without saying that parents who are farmers in rural areas are very proud of children who are university students. However, situation has changed. A university student said that he was the model for other children about study when he was young, but his younger brother who just graduated from middle school was his model after he graduated from his university. Difficult job hunting and expensive tuition can not offer university students good return in short time and many university students are not confident in themselves. Many students start to doubt or even regret why they went to universities for study at first. In addition, their parents also regret that they borrow money from others for children’s tuition because they can not obtain expected return. Such idea has overspread in the society. Actually, a part of people have been enchanted by the bad idea.
A businessman from a village told the journalist that people went to school just for the diploma and they had to spend 17 to 18 years obtaining the diploma so they just wasted the time. When the man graduated from middle school, he started to learn from his father for business. When he was 23 years old, he started to have his own business and earned much money. On the contrary, some people who have entered famous universities but they could just get job with monthly salary no more than 2000RMB. Some even could not find a job. Such phenomenon has changed parents’ idea about university students in the village and they are no longer proud of their children who are university students. A principal from a middle school said that rich people went to school for the diploma and poor people went to school to support the family in future. In recent years, farmer’s income has increased but the tuition has increased more. Therefore, many students have dropped out. Higher tuition is just one reason and another important reason is that many parents think even children could go to university, they can not earn much money in future so they want children to work and earn money as soon as possible. As for university students, they also feel upset because they just get less salary than their fellow townsmen who just graduated from middle school and they do not dare to face parents and relatives.
A professor said that the idea of “knowledge is useless” not only reflects the social problem but also disadvantages of education. Actually, knowledge itself is not a mistake. On the contrary knowledge can make people wise. The problem is that education offered by school detaches production and practice but enterprises always prefer people who have knowledge of practice. In addition, people often have high expectation on education which in fact, has its own disadvantages. Many university students do not work hard at universities so it is hard for them to get good job after graduation. Therefore, people should not monotonously think knowledge is useless because hard job hunting is caused by various factors.

In China, female doctors who are considered as the wise women always impose mystery on people’s mind. People often misunderstand them because of their high education. Some people even classify them as the third sex group except male and female. Actually, it is a kind of discrimination.
So what about the real life for female doctors? Heavy academic study has took most of their time and they live a simple and busy life in canteen, dormitory, lab and library. A female doctoral student says that many female doctors often stay up. If they don not have lessons next day, they will get up at about 8:00am or 9:00am then they will go to the library or prepare the essays. After lunch, they so the same thing. Doctoral students of science spend most time in doing experiment in the lab. They also have entertainment activities such as doing sports, shopping and seeing movie etc when they are free.
What do female doctors worry about? Sex is always ignored for female doctors. In academic field, female doctors are considered as equal as male doctors. Publication of some essays and perfection of graduation thesis are considered most by all doctoral students and female doctoral students are not the exception. They have to bear much pressure. On one hand, they become older and older. On the other hand, mentors are very strict with graduation thesis and doctoral students can be not allowed to graduate smoothly. As for the employment for female doctors, it is not easy. Most doctors choose to work in some colleges and universities with good conditions and salary but as the quantity of doctors is increasing every year, they have to face up with more competition. In addition, those colleges, universities and research institutes also set up higher standard for recruitment.
As for the marriage for female doctors, that is a big problem. Female doctors spend much time in study and do not have many friends so they do not have chance to know more men. In addition, their high education is also a kind of obstruction and even some male doctors do not want to marry female doctors, let alone those men who do not have high education. A female doctoral student says that her friends and relatives introduce her to a man but when the man knows the she is a doctor, the man refuses. After she graduates, she finds that she is more than 30 years old already and her parents worry about her marriage too much.
As for the psychology of female doctors, people always think their psychology is not healthy and they have abnormal behavior. Maybe some doctors do not have good skills to communicate with others due to insufficient experience in the society. However, some females doctors have other opinions for themselves and they think they are optimistic and open-minded. Some mentors also say that most female doctors are very excellent and they have high IQ and talents. They are also very independent and hard-working.
At present, people still have different ideas towards female doctors and they are still discriminated by people to some extent. So when can people remove the abnormal ideas?

Doctors’ education, as the top part in pyramid of the education system, plays an important role in science creation and academic standard for a country and it also represents the educational standard in a country. Since 18 doctor’s degrees have been authorized in the year 1983, the doctor education in our country has obtained great achievement. Many senior personnel are trained by doctor education and high level of scientific research is also produced. However, some problems still can be found in doctor education when compared with that in other developed countries.
The enrollment in our country is increasing. During recent years, as the enrollment for university students is increasing, the quantity of doctors also increases. Compared with the growth rate of doctor at the beginning of 1990s, the enrollment for doctors has increased by 15 times and the number of doctoral students in school has increased by 60 times. The scale of doctors in our country has been listed as the first place in the world. As for the structure distribution for doctors, the quantity of doctors of engineering is more than the quantity of doctors in other fields. More than 85% doctors study in famous universities. In addition, generally speaking, doctors often work in colleges and universities and research institutes. There are three kinds of doctors in our country including research doctors, professional doctors and interdisciplinary doctors. At present, most doctoral students in our country engage in research or teaching at universities after they graduate. People also try to set professional doctor’s degree in some fields but the quantity is still very small. Doctors also make more contributions than what masters, graduates and undergraduates do.
As the number of doctors increases, the quality of doctors’ education in our country is worse than that of doctors in other developed countries. Firstly, the proportion between doctoral students and mentors is not balanced. As the enrollment of doctoral students increases, the quantity of mentors also increases but the number is small compared with that of doctors. According to some survey, 2/3 mentors in our country have to teach both masters and doctors. In other words, a mentor has to teach 5.77 doctoral students on average. However, in some developed countries, a mentor just teach 2 to 3 doctoral students. Secondly, the doctoral education focus much on grades on students’ entrance exam instead of comprehensive talent. As for the courses, they are set not closely with application of technology and production practice. In addition, the mentors do not pay much attention to scientific research and just ask students to help them finish their work. Compared with other universities abroad, it is easier for Chinese doctoral students to graduate from universities because they just have to finish some papers as mentors require. Therefore, some doctoral students pay more attention to the diploma but research. Thirdly, doctoral education in China focus on theory instead of practice and the research is difficult to be transformed into achievement. Fourthly, many doctors do not stay in China but go abroad for further development because they can fully show their talents in other developed countries and get better treatment.

On November 1, 2009, China World Hotel embraced the 2009 International Boarding School Fair in Beijing. Hundreds and thousands of parents attended with their teenage kids. Although Beijing welcomed it’s first snow of 2009 on the day, the hall with the fair going on was extremely hot with too much crowd as well as too much enthusiasm from both parts: the parents eager to consult and find their children the “best” schools while the representatives from North American secondary schools trying their best to convince the parents that they are the very one being sought.

The schools were unexceptionally boasting their colorfulness in terms of how many international students they enrolled, and their specialties in arts, sports and many other fields. The parents looked over each stand present, asking the most concerned questions, such as how much the tuition is, how the children are settled in the boarding schools, how their children can be helped and can receive individual attention. But the kids’ eyes full of curiosity and bewilderment, and some with excitement as well, it seemed that they had no exact idea what they were going to experience in the near future to come.

Though some parents in Beijing are well-being enough to pay more 200,000 RMB each year for their kids to study overseas (which is 20 times more than the regular tuition for high school or even university education), the real question behind the parents should be thinking about is whether this really fits their children. After all, they are just 13 to 17 years old. To attend a secondary school and maybe later a university overseas means that the children have to be kept apart from their families for 4 years or even longer. When they are not mentally and physically matured enough, staying in an exotic culture with no parents around may cause some problems in their growing up. In this day and age when it is difficult sometimes for even adults to cope with cultural shock despite their mature cultural cultivation, children will definitely run into similar situations, not to mention that they are not mature yet. The potential sense of isolation, homesickness and loneliness will likely to outweigh all possible gains.

So it is really recommended for the parents to think over and make sure it is the right decision to make before they send their children to a secondary school thousands of miles away. Although education maybe a different case, it is not always a good idea to seek far and wide for what lies close at hand. My tip: stay cool to the rush!

One in every 31 adults, or 7.3 million Americans, is in prison, on parole or probation, at a cost to the states of $47 billion in 2008, according to a new study. Criminal correction spending is outpacing budget growth in education, transportation and public assistance, based on state and federal data. Only Medicaid spending grew faster than state corrections spending, which quadrupled in the past two decades.  The increase in the number of people in some form of correctional control occurred as crime rates declined by about 25% in the past two decades. As states face huge budget shortfalls, prisons, which hold 1.5 million adults, are driving the spending increases. One in 11 African-Americans, or 9.2 percent, are under correctional control, compared with one in 27 Latinos (3.7 percent) and one in 45 whites (2.2 percent).

Education is the key to the modern sociaty.The extent to which children are educated is importance to improve the national power,because we all know that children are our future,and education decided what they will be several years later.

However,the prevailing traditional way of teaching is so old-fashioned that it is far from satisfying the need of the fast development of modern society.So, “quality education” is a big problem in teaching systerm now.If not solved immediately and properly,this question will slow down the progress of the development of our society.

So,the policy of “quality education”was established in order to train and bring up more qualified graduates with greater ability,and teacher played the very important role to improve the education’s quality.

We all agree child labor is wrong, and that we should try to combat it where ever we find it. But in countries that do not have a welfare system, this is not as easy as saying “its wrong”. I live in a country where you will see children working everywhere you look. Most will never have a chance to get a decent education and will spend most of their lives working mundane repetitive tasks for a pittance. But this pittance is what their family needs, and that’s the problem. As long as the families need the money, getting everyone to contribute (whether it is work, crime or begging) comes before funding an education.