Educator sorry for offending women

Yu Minhong, founder of New Oriental Education and Technology Group, apologized for saying that the degeneration of Chinese women has led to the degeneration of the whole country - comments that have raised heated discussion online since Sunday.

"Today, when I tried to explain during a forum how the direction of evaluation determines the direction of education, I used the analogy of women's standards in looking for a husband. Because of my poor analogy, I caused misunderstanding among netizens, about which I'm very sorry," Yu said in a Sina Weibo post on Sunday evening.

Earlier, at an education forum in Shanghai, when talking about how the mechanisms of evaluation influenced education, Yu likened it to the criteria Chinese women use to find a mate and how that influences men and the country.