I think this is just unnatural. Seriously. I mean, working hard and studying hard is really great, but there must be a balance. Having rest once a fortnight and

I think this is just unnatural. Seriously. I mean, working hard and studying hard is really great, but there must be a balance. Having rest once a fortnight and having 9-hours exams is clearly off-balance. There's a limited amount of information the nervous system can take in in a given amount of time. Studying twice as much doesn't mean learning twice as much - having spent five years in higher education I can tell that having rest and being calm helps waaay much more than, say for instance, studying on Sundays. As for the Chinese society, I'm not sure if that helps them either. Sure they might raise professionals with a large lexical knowledge (assuming that they don't forget everything the moment they put the pens down at the end of the exam) but it seems to me that these millions of kids will grow up becoming real stresspots with all the divorce stuff and heart attack in their late forties. Is this really how Chinese people imagine their next generation of working population?