September 01, 2004

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Today's lessons: maths, love, science...

Shanghai has realised the recent crackdown on internet p0rn in China has closed off an avenue of learning for the city's students. So it is going to do something about it: start lessons on "real love".

"Stories and poems on love written by well-known authors, Chinese and foreign, ancient and contemporary, have been added to middle school textbooks in a special unit titled 'Love is like a song', an unprecedented endeavour," Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday. The literature includes work by Russian poet Pushkin, excerpts from Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" and Chinese love classics written by ancient and contemporary writers...

"In Chinese society, however, love, both spiritual and physical, remains a traditional taboo and a topic seldom touched on in the Chinese curriculum, though it is a factor widely believed to divert students' attention from study."

This is anything but an "unprecedented endeavour". If they want an example of teaching "real love", try this.

posted by Simon on 09.01.04 at 03:18 PM in the




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