Education must cross the divide

WU YISHU, a high school graduate in Shanghai famous for becoming the champion at the 2017 Chinese Poetry Conference, made a buzz again because she got 613 points out of a possible 660 in this year's annual national college entrance exam. Confounding the expectations of many, Wu will study natural science at Tsinghua University. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Many netizens have wondered why the "poetry girl" wants to study natural science as her major.

It seems many people are still trapped in the rigid thinking that divides knowledge into science and arts. For a long time, domestic high schools have divided their students into arts or science classes, where they receive totally different kinds of education, take different tests in the national college entrance examination, or gaokao, and attend different majors upon entering university, where they will hardly receive any education in the other discipline.