Basic education off track

Quality education, or an educational model aimed at promoting students' all-round development, should be based on just basic education that gives students some basic knowledge and teaches them how to be a social person.

However, many parents expect the basic education to lay a solid foundation for a successful careers and lives for their offspring when they grow up. They want schools to impart their ideals and ambitions to young students, as they know what their youngsters learn at school will to a large extent influence their beliefs and values as they grow up. Such excessively utilitarian expectations have deviated basic education from its track.

Basic education is also endowed with excessive academic content. One would be shocked at the heavy and packed schoolbags schoolchildren carry every day. At such a young age, how can they be expected to learn so much knowledge?