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China schools: 'Xi Jinping Thought' introduced into curriculum
- thedudeabides5 5y agoEducation with Xi Jinping characteristics
- baybal2 5y ago10 years ago people were telling me that such things could never ever happen in modern China again. Prosperity didn't work at all as a safeguard against this.
- bhawks 5y agoThe more powerful the state becomes, the more it attracts a certain type of person to rule it.
- dumb1224 5y agoWhat thing? Adding the current leadership 'works' to curriculum? From my education since the 90s it's always the case. No students ever take these 'social political conscience' courses seriously. Most regard them as a joke and a scoring tool to join the party (that is if that's advantageous to their undergraduate degree). At least what I know.
- baybal2 5y ago> Politics has been a compulsory subject since forever. It wasn't for most of nineties, and, 200x. Second, this time it's very different from a side note in the history class, but a in manner of straigh hello from seventies.
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- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago> Adding the current leadership 'works' to curriculum? From my education since the 90s it's always the case. I mean, when you put it that way education in the US was pretty much the same when I was in school. There was a lot of time spent showing how the checks and balances of the US government keep everything good and fair and totally not corrupt as fuck at all.
- Bayart 5y agoChecks and balances is how a guy like Trump can't stay in the White House regardless of how much he whines about fraudulent elections. I'd say the US system works for the most part and isn't nearly as corrupt as Americans like to think.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoThis time, and it feels like it only just barely worked. We'll see if we get as lucky in round 2.
- seanicus 5y agoAnd the immediate passing of numerous voting laws are certainly uh... checks and balances
- whycombinatore 5y agoFor a start, do you have a better method? Let us know which country is "not totally corrupt" and why is it so? Checks and balances in any system reduces efficiency and places a lower limit on how bad things can get. On the topic of adding these to the curriculum, I'd say its a good thing, although most of these 12 Xi thoughts are pure platitudes.
- powerapple 5y agoThere has always be such subjects in school. Firstly it was Mao Thoughts, then added Deng Thoughts, added Jiang Thoughts afterwards, now added Xi. Politics has been a compulsory subject since forever.
- dumb1224 5y agoYes totally agreed. Same experience. However I think it's more specialised, not quite like the general 'Politics' courses found in US/UK. More of a 'social conscience / collectivism education' type of empty content.
- powerapple 5y agoI actually liked it. The lectures are boring as all other subjects. I mostly enjoy reading all text books when I start a new semester, after I read everything, the subject becomes boring to me. The text taught about objective of life, the personal value and society actually made me wanting to go to university. There are so much interesting things in text book, but if a teacher is boring (as most of them), they will just read the text and ask you to recite it.
- dumb1224 5y agoActually you reminded me. There was one very funny lecturer who's bit of a rogue figure whose lecture became popular among the univ students. He used a lot of analogies in the class and the many 'innocent' innuendos all in the name of 'bring socialist values to students'. It was so lighthearted almost like a free stand-up comedy. A little colourful brushes in the dull boring political courses.
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- kadomony 5y agoI think that prosperity is attributed to have risen because of this school of thinking, so that’s why they’re reinforcing it. It’s not much different than how ingrained corporatism is in American politics. But instead of worshipping a company, they’re idolizing a school of thought dating back to the Cultural Revolution. It’s funny how their own government has become the reactionary one.
- civilized 5y agoI'm sure this is nothing new and they're just adding the doctrines of the latest guy to the existing communist ideology education courses.
- bctnry 5y agoThey never added those things as a standalone subject to primary school & middle school curriculum since 1978. Not even Maoism.
- dumb1224 5y agowhat do you mean, the courses with social political education? It was always there. From my education experience in the late 80s to 00s. But to be honest no one is ever taking it seriously and it's obviously a joke to students.
- bctnry 5y agoNo, no. Single politics course, they do exists, but never single Maoism course, single Dengism course, etc. Even in colleges and universities they're combined into one single course. This time it's different, China is having single Xi-ism course.
- dumb1224 5y agoPlease do point me to the confirmed curriculum of any part of the education system. I am not aware of any. It currently is a guide AFAIK. https://edu.sina.com.cn/l/2021-08-24/doc-ikqcfncc4747529.shtml https://edu.sina.com.cn/l/2021-08-24/doc-ikqcfncc4747529.sht...
- powerapple 5y agoThere has always been. This is not additional subject. Politics has always been one subject, with different text for each grade, either it is Maxism, Materialism, Deng and so on. This is not a new subject, just new text added to Politics.
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- mcswell 5y agoI'm sure it's koans like "Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can’t hear, and not bothering", or "Well, what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called. (Excerpted from https://medium.com/swlh/12-winnie-the-pooh-philosophies-to-help-make-sense-of-life-a352c13d4b37 https://medium.com/swlh/12-winnie-the-pooh-philosophies-to-h...)
- fennecfoxen 5y agoI appreciate the surprising subtlety of your analysis.
- perl4ever 5y agoA.A. Milne played cricket on the same team as J. M. Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle and P. G. Wodehouse. I'm not sure what this corresponds to, but it sounds like it means something. Also, the real Christopher Robin is said to have had a less than happy relationship to the Winnie the Pooh phenomenon.
- wawa0361 5y agoHow are his life's lived experiences different to major religion religious leaders on the Easter Med. with influence on the minds of followers in China's undergroup cruchhes any more or less useful and relevant?
- 57844743385 5y agoWelcome, new account from state run influence team.
- __m 5y agoStill less creepy than the pledge of allegiance
- codezero 5y agoHow do you make a scale of comparison between the two?
- robert_foss 5y agoOne has at leadt theoretical space for the transfer of knowledge. The other is pure propaganda.
- codezero 5y agoInteresting take, I don't want to assume which you mean, but it seems like the pledge is pure propaganda, that said I find it more troubling when knowledge is intermixed with propaganda. At least pure propaganda is not trying to convince you it is anything else, like a space to transfer knowledge :)
- jsrcout 5y agoOne includes the Dear Leader's name, one does not.
- codezero 5y agoWhat are the units of that scale?
- newbamboo 5y agoGreat point!
- whoaisme 5y agoPeople who compare US oddities with Chinese authoritarianism are such useful idiots. Let's see what happens with a kid when he refuses to study xi Jinping thought. This insipid anti americanism that infests the internet is the dead horse that keeps on kicking
- rdtwo 5y agoAt my local school in the us social studies got replaced with social justice. This happens everywhere in the world