Tradition should not be denied

Education means more than copying scientific knowledge - it should serve the transmission of values and civilization. Without traditional Chinese culture as part of their basic education, a whole generation will find themselves culturally abandoned, so how can they be confident with the country's development?

People's Daily, Sept 11

In a nation's development, it needs to, of course, absorb the good experiences of other nations, but it can never deny its own traditional culture. If China deletes the traditional poems from textbooks and replaces them with Western essays, its children will forget traditional Chinese culture in the long run. That would ruin China spiritually.